Originally published by Wildside Press Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt; a tunnel that murders people; a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow; a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower; a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses…there cannot be a rational explanation for these and other hideous crimes; and yet there is. Each of the ten stories in this collection — likened to “discovering a hitherto unknown cache of tales by G.K. Chesterton or John Dickson Carr” by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine — is a glittering example of the brilliant plotting and atmosphere of foreboding that characterized the Golden Age of detective fiction, of which Paul Halter is the current master.

The stories included in this collection are ‘The Abominable Snowman’, ‘The Dead Dance at Night’, ‘The Call of the Lorelei’, ‘The Golden Ghost’, ‘The Tunnel of Death’, ‘The Cleaver’, ‘The Flower Girl’, ‘Rippermania’, ‘Murder in Cognac’, and ‘The Night of the Wolf’.