Books with author Barry Moser

"I can assure you," said the young man, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me."So says the foolishly brave narrator of H. G. Wells's "The Red Room," one of the thirteen great ghost stories gathered together in this deluxe illustrated volume. Selected and illustrated by Barry Moser, a master of the macabre, these spooky tales will send a shiver down the spine of even the bravest reader.This new edition includes classic masterpieces of horror by H. P. Lovecraft, Brain Stoker, Richard Middleton, and Arthur Conan Doyle. There are also several chilling modern tales of the supernatural by such authors as Madeleine L'Engle and Joyce Carol Oates to petrify even the most seasoned explorer of the dark realms.From the slowly gathering dread of being caught in the grips of a haunted house to the sure, sharp horror of realization that overcomes one entering the spirit world, nothing compares to the thrill of these tales from the great beyond. With Barry Moser's fourteen eerie watercolors, this collection is sure to satisfy readers with an insatiable taste for terror, as well as those who simply love the chill down the spine that comes from reading a great ghost story.

The Planet of Trash, by George Poppel, is illustrated by renowned artist Barry Moyer. This colorful children's book is about astronauts from outer space who land on a polluted, lifeless planet. Discovering that the planet's inhabitants vanished mysteriously, the explorers excavate in search of clues of this lost civilization. The reader learns that the Planet of Trash is the Planet Earth. The book teaches children to protect the environment. For children to age 12.