This Mortal Coil (Horror Anthology)

In our youth we grow comfortable standing on the terra firma of life, not realizing how infirma that terra really is. Life is a fragile thing given to each of us in different measures. Some of us have the courage to look off the precipice, so to speak, and wonder what lies beyond this mortality we know so well and gaze, if only briefly, into that “undiscovered country” we will all traverse one day. Others cling to what they feel is certainty, try to cheat death and hold on to life. Here are tales that grapple with life, even while they shuffle up the mortal coil as they do so. Each one speaks eloquently for itself.
---- J. Reder White

Contents

1)“There is a Reaper” by Charles V. de Vet
2)“The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham” by H. G. Wells
3)“Let Me Feel Your Pulse” by O. Henry
4)“The Undertaker's Chat” by Mark Twain
5)“The Body-Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson
6)“Am I Still There?” by James R. Hall
7)“The Big Trip Up Yonder” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
8)“Selected Fables” by Aesop
9)“An Angel of the Odd” by Edgar Allan Poe
10)“A Ghost Story” by Mark Twain
11)“A Ghost of a Chance” by O. Henry
12)“2 B R Ø 2 B” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
13)“The Lost Legion” by Rudyard Kipling
14)“The $30,000 Bequest” by Mark Twain
15)“Dead Ringer” by Lester del Rey
16)“Mackintosh” by William Somerset Maugham
17)“The Last Evolution” by John W. Campbell, Jr.