June lunged forward and grabbed the reaching thing that was homing in on Mrs. Warren's hysterical grief. Her hands closed around it convulsively, her whole weight dragging backwards, but it had a strength she couldn't match. Desperately then, her fists clenched, her eyes tight shut, she screamed and screamed and screamed. —from "Hush!" by Zenna Henderson Give yourself the shivers with these fourteen stories by the master scaremongers: R.L. Stine, Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Jerome Bixby, Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan, Leon Garfield, Zenna Henderson, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Robert Bloch.