A fascinating and frightening collection of folk tale monsters, ghosts, and other scary things that dwell in the dark.

Our world is a strange place. This hauntingly illustrated book peers into the dark spaces that lie somewhere between belief and imagination, and into the weird stories we tell to make sense of where and who we are. Here are tales of vengeful ghosts, bloodthirsty monsters, internet-conjured nightmares, lost souls, cryptid curiosities, demons, aliens, the undead, and the inexplicable, including:

• Enfield Poltergeist
• Jersey Devil
• Mothman
• Krampus
• El Silbón
• Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
• Headless Horseman
• Skunk Ape
• Onryō
• Loab
• Isla de las Muñecas
• Slender Man
• La Llorona
• Loch Ness Monster
• And many more...

Acclaimed artist Ricardo Diseño brings a lifelong fascination with eerie folklore to electrify the artwork depicting each spooky subject, accompanied by evocative descriptions and history and a flash-fiction story in which readers encounter the dark presences themselves.

Ricardo Diseño is the artist behind the Classic Horror Oracle. An Austin, Texas-based illustrator and poster designer, he has done work for the New Yorker, the Criterion Collection, the New York Times, Refinery29, Illustoria, Spoke Art, Chronicle Books, and many others.

Steve Mockus is a San Francisco-based editor and author of the Classic Horror Oracle, Cthulhu: The Ancient One Tribute Box, Mr. Spock Logic & Prosperity Box, How to Speak Zombie, A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, and Stick Man’s Really Bad Day.