Secret Worship

The works of English, Irish, Scottish, and American writers of the 19th – 20th centuries included in the collection are united by the theme of black magic and devil worship. Magic rituals, occult rituals, mysterious incidents, deals with the devil, objects that fulfill wishes but take a lot in return, revenge with the help of black magic, a sect. Sometimes funny, sometimes dark and frightening stories from Washington Irving, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Riddell, Bram Stoker, William Wymark Jacobs, Montagu Rhodes James, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Gray and Roger Pater.