An important subgenre of Horror fiction is the Macabre Tale, a narrative whose subject and focus is death in its most gruesome forms. In this collection of twenty stories, a gentleman out for a lengthy ramble through the countryside reveals his true intention; an anthropologist is taken to school by two ghoulish spirits; a hysterical mother desperately searches for her lost child; a high school valedictorian is brutally murdered; a tinker learns storytelling the hard way; and a retiree is surprised by those who disapprove of his hobby. Leave the lights on.