It so fell that one dark evening in the month of June I was belated in the Bernese Oberland. Dusk overtook me toiling along the great Chamounix Road, and in the heart of a most desolate gorge, whose towering snow-flung walls seemed -- as the day sucked inwards to a point secret as a leech's mouth -- to close about me like a monstrous amphitheater of ghosts. . . ." Bernard Edward J. Capes is generally remembered as a writer of eerie fiction, and, as you can see, he had a feel for the form. Included in this volume of his short fiction are "The Moon Stricken, " "Jack and Jill, " "The Vanishing House, " "Dark Dignum, " "William Tyrwhitt's 'Copy, '" "A Lazy Romance, " "Black Venn, " "An Eddy on the Floor, " "Dinah's Mammoth, " "The Black Reaper, " and "A Voice from the Pit.