Nicks` Cabinet of Curios

  David Stuart Davies - Classic Tales of the Macabre - CRW/Collector`s Library - 2011   This is one I`ve read fairly recently, but it`s not 100% fresh in my mind, so my comments will be fairly general. Despite the title, not all of the stories in this collection are actually macabre and at least one is actually rather sweet. Nevertheless, there is quite a bit here to satisfy the most ardent aficionado of the grim, gruesome and grotesque. There are a few here that are already familiar to me, which is probably inevitable given my long-standing enthusiasm for such things, but still there are quite a few that I`ve not encountered before. I would also mention that Perceval Landon`s Thurnley Abbey, which I had previously encountered in a clumsily abridged form in another collection, is reproduced here in what I assume is it`s full length and is much more effective for that.  An interesting choice is Kipling`s The Mark of the Beast. Many would dismiss this as a rather objectiona...