from the dust-jacket:
"The Ghouls: edited by Peter Haining, with an introduction by Vincent Price and an afterword by Christopher Lee"

"Will any of us ever forget the first time we saw Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney? Or The Beast with Five Fingers with Peter Lorre? Or Die, Monster, Die with Boris Karloff? Whether we saw them as first-run films at the local theater or are only now becoming addicted to 'Chiller Theater' on television, the ghoul-watchers among us are in for a rare treat.

The Ghouls is a horror film buff's dream. Peter Haining has collected the stories on which eighteen of the very best horror films were based..."

"...In his introductions to each story, Mr. Haining provides a brief look at the story itself and the films made from it, including some fascinating bits of information about the making of the motion picture."

Stories included:
The Devil in a convent, by F. O. Mann
The lunatics, by E. A. Poe
Puritan passions, by N. Hawthorne
Phantom of the opera, by G. Leroux
The magician, by S. Maugham
Freaks, by T. Robbins
Most dangerous game, by R. Connell
Dracula's daughter, by B. Stoker
All that money can buy, by S. V. Bent
The body snatcher, by R. L. Stevenson
The beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey
The beast from 20,000 fathoms, by R. Bradbury
The fly, by G. Langelaan
Black Sunday, by N. Gogol
Incident at Owl Creek, by A. Bierce
Monster of terror, by H. P. Lovecraft
The skull, by R. Bloch
The oblong box, by E. A. Poe