A collection of stories that have a big surprise at the end. The reader will meet sinister landladies, weird sweetshops, evil statuettes, deadly coffins, poisonous hats, awful slitherings, murderous monks, and real lions in the nursery. But watch out for the ending - it could be nasty.

Contents:

• Introduction by Dennis Pepper
• The Landlady by Roald Dahl
• Call First by Ramsey Campbell
• We’ll Look After You by Robin Klein
• Sweet Shop by Marc Alexander
• Those Three Wishes by Robert Scott
• The Loony by Alison Prince
• Ghost Hunter by Sydney J. Bounds
• The Mystery of the Semi-Detached by E. Nesbit
• A Face in the Night by Ruskin Bond
• Such a Sweet Little Girl by Lance Salway
• Mr. Lupescu by Anthony Boucher
• Thus I Refute Beelzy by John Collier
• A Sharp Attack on Something or Other by T.H. White
• Voodoo by Fredric Brown
• The Candidate by Henry Slesar
• The Near Departed by Richard Matheson
• The Statuette by Kenneth Ireland
• The Meeting by Robert Scott
• The Talking Head by Robert Scott
• Paths by John Christopher
• The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] by Ray Bradbury
• The Old Burying Place by Gerald Kersh
• Hey, You Down There! by Harold Rolseth
• A Hundred Steps by Robert Scott
• Revival Meeting by Dannie Plachta
• Death’s Murderers by Geraldine McCaughrean
• The Cathedral Crypt [as by John Beynon Harris] by John Wyndham
• One Chance by Ethel Helene Coen
• The Secret of City Cemetery by Patrick Bone
• The Helpful Undertaker by Robert Scott
• The Davenport by Jack Ritchie
• Every Litter Bit Hurts by Michael Avallone
• Cop for a Day by Henry Slesar
• On the Sidewalk Bleeding by Evan Hunter
• The Skeleton in the Closet by Richard Dockrey & Judy Dockrey Young