Terror can have such simple beginnings -- a child's letter

to Father Christmas...a pretty girl glimpsed in a London

street...a trip down the Brighton Road...a night spent in an

empty mansion for a bet?

And the consequences can be fearsome, as the unsleeping

dead walk again, as strange emotions stir inanimate things

to murderous life, as horrors beyond our imagining cross the

threshold into our world; can anyone be sure that all is as it

seems.

After you read these thirteen tales of terror, can you?