Voodoo Tales. The Ghost Stories of Henry S. Whitehead

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies "And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its red tongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lips drawn back in a murderous snarl..." Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world of voodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of the living are racked by the spirits of the dead. In this collection of rare and out of print stories you will encounter the curses of the great Guinea-Snake, the Sheen, the weredog whose very touch means certain death, the curious tale of the 'magicked' mirror, and fiendish manikins who make life a living hell. Included in this festival of shivering fear is the remarkable narrative "Williamson" which every editor who read the story shied away from publishing. With deceptive simplicity and chilling realism, Whitehead's Voodoo Tales are amongst the most frightening ever written. CONTENTS Introduction by David Stuart Davies (vii-xi) WEST INDIA LIGHTS 1. Black Terror (1931) [Gerald Canevin] 2. West India Lights (1927) 3. "Williamson" (1946) [Gerald Canevin] 4. The Shut Room (1930) [Gerald Canevin] 5. The Left Eye (1927) 6. Tea Leaves (1924) 7. The Trap (1932) & H. P. Lovecraft [Gerald Canevin] 8. The Napier Limousine (1933) [Gerald Canevin] 9. The Ravel Pavane (1946) 10. Sea Change (1925) 11. The People of Pan (1929) [Gerald Canevin] 12. The Chadbourne Episode (1933) [Gerald Canevin] 13. Scar-Tissue (1946) 14. "—In Case of Disaster Only" (1946) 15. Bothon (1946) 16. The Great Circle (1932) [Gerald Canevin] 17. Obi in the Caribbean (1927) JUMBEE AND OTHER VOODOO TALES 18. Jumbee (1926) 19. Cassius (1931) [Gerald Canevin] 20. Black Tancrède (1929) [Gerald Canevin] 21. The Shadows (1927) 22. Sweet Grass (1929) 23. The Tree-Man (1931) [Gerald Canevin] 24. Passing of a God (1931) [Gerald Canevin] 25. Hill Drums (1931) THE BLACK BEAST AND OTHER VOODOO TALES 26. The Black Beast (1931) [Gerald Canevin] 27. Seven Turns in a Hangman's Rope (1932) 28. Mrs. Lorriquer (1932) [Gerald Canevin] 29. The Projection of Armand Dubois (1926) [Gerald Canevin] 30. The Lips (1929) 31. The Fireplace (1925) OTHER STORIES 32. The Moon Dial (1932) 33. No Eye-Witnesses (1932) 34. Across the Gulf (1926) 35. The Tabernacle (1930) 36. The Door (1924) 37. Sea-Tiger (1932)