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After having his portrait painted, Dorian Gray is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary friend, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wished to stay young forever and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses, he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay. Set in fin-de-siecle London, the novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Howard to the opium dens of the East End.

In the summer of 1960, in Elm Haven, Illinois, a sinister being is stalking the town's children, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the town residents know that it marks the end of innocence.

A woman, attempting to start a new life after escaping her violent, brutal husband finds that you can' t always leave your past behind you. Through an usual painting she discovers a stronger, more dangerous side of herself. A side she would never have believed existed.

Short stories by three of the world's leading writers of horror fiction. Subjects range from hauntings and witchcraft to werewolves and alternative universes.