The New English Library released this title first in 1982 as a stand-alone novel in a paperback original "OUT ARE THE LIGHTS."

The later UK Headline Edition Hardcover (First World Hardcover) released it with 5 short stories:
Mess Hall
Dinker's Pond
Madman Stan
Bad News
The Tub

This from the interior dustjacket of the Headline Hardcover:

The Vampire movie came first - the girl died in a welter of blood as the vampire bit clean through her jugular...The Inquisition came next - the victim confessed all as the spider crawled over her naked body...Then came the story of the Axeman...

This was the horror-movie series to end them all. Cinema buffs particularly admired the grainy, amateurish camera work - it suggested the action was the real thing. But it couldn't be - could it?