The best story in this book is "Jungli Admi" by Sarath Kumar Ghosh. Not a _The King in Yellow_ story, but it had a cleaner prose style than the stories in the _King in Yellow_ cycle. "The Messenger" is a supernatural horror story by Robert W. A man falls overboard from a ship the others on the ship don't hear his pleas for help and his attempt to swim back to the ship fails. "Man Overboard" is a three page story written by Winston Churchill when he was a young man. This long story goes in various directions and I found it to be a slog. "A Study of Destiny" by Count Leigh de Hamong, probably published in the 1890s, is a horror story set during an archaeology expedition in Egypt. The stories, though, were a mixed bag for me. This book is a collection of short stories in fantasy, horror, and science fiction that were published-roughly-between 18, and which the editors consider to be "forgotton gems". I recently purchased a used paperback of this book from Myopic Books, a used bookstore the size of a two story house.
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