Showing results for "The Skull" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Nine tales of Horror from author Armand Rosamilia, including "Memorial Site", "Vacation's End", "1920 Gallery Card #4", "Stairs To The Ocean", "Beastie", "Crow Mill Bridge", "Rainforest of Bones", "South American Death Cap", and "The Devil and The Cenote" plus a preview of the urban horror novella "Death Metal".

The Screaming Skull is one of F. Marion Crawford's Uncanny Tales, which was first published, posthumously, in London in 1911 and was issued two weeks later in America as Wandering Ghosts.

Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. In 1879, he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881, he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University.

Have you ever wondered, in the back of your mind, if you could make a wish come true? That's exactly what happened to Dr. Murray when on an expedition with a group of archeologists to the Aztec ruins. Dr. Murray was known as a dreamer, with an overactive imagination - so even if he were to tell someone that he made a wish and it came true, no one would believe him. Dr. Murray is what you might call the little boy who cried wolf. And he was one of seven young archeologists eager to make a name for himself....