The
Mediterranean.
Sun-bleached ruins, azure seas, foaming wine. But history's cruellest tyrants reigned here, delighting in blood and torture. Myths tell of snake-haired harridans and one-eyed giants, of humans cooked on spits, of curses, scourges, and devious deities who played with men's souls like pawns in chess ...
The poison apples of
Aegle
The human sacrifice on
Crete
The beautiful predator of
Palermo
The damned souls on
Poveglia
The evil artefact at
Koyuluk
The blood-drinking baron of
Emporda
The demon attack in
Vatican City
Includes terrifying tales by
Jasper Bark
,
Simon Clark
Steve Duffy
Paul Finch
Sean Hogan
Carly Holmes
David J Howe
Maxim Jakubowski
Gary McMahon
Mark Morris
Reggie Oliver
Peter Shilston
Don Tumasonis
and
Aliya Whiteley
.