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Great tales of terror and the supernatural
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Random House
Publication Date
[1944]
Language
English
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Tales of terror : La Grande Breteche / Honore de Balzac --
The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe --
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe --
A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --
The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce --
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy --
The interruption / W. W. Jacobs --
Pollock and the Porroh man / H. G. Wells --
The sea raiders / H. G. Wells --
Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H. H. Munro) --
Moonlight sonata / Alexander Woollcott --
Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken --
Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers --
The most dangerous game / Richard Connell --
Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson --
The gentleman from America / Michael Arlen --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
The killers / Ernest Hemingway --
Black for Christmas / John Collier --
Taboo / Geoffrey Household.
Tales of the supernatural : The haunters and the haunted or the house and the brain / Edward Bulwer-Lytton --
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The trial for murder / Charles Collins and Charles Dickens --
Green tea / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu --
What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien --
Sir Edmund Orme / Henry James --
The Horla / Guy de Maupassant --
Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant --
The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford --
The furnished room / O. Henry --
Casting the runes / M. R. James --
Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad / M. R. James --
Afterward / Edith Wharton --
The monkey's paw / W. W. Jacobs --
The great god Pan / Arthur Machen --
How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens --
The return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling --
"They" / Rudyard Kipling --
Lukundoo / Edward Lucas White --
Caterpillars / E. F. Benson --
Mrs. Amworth / E. F. Benson --
Ancient sorceries / Algernon Blackwood --
Confession / Algernon Blackwood --
The open window / Saki (H. H. Munro) --
The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions --
Out of the deep / Walter de la Mare --
Adam and Eve and pinch me / A. E. Coppard --
The celestial omnibus / E. M. Forster --
The ghost ship / Richard Middleton --
The sailor-boy's tale / Karen Blixen --
The rats in the wall / H. P. Lovecraft --
The Dunwich horror / H. P. Lovecraft.
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Aiken, Conrad,1889-1973
Arlen, Michael,1895-1956
Balzac, Honoré de,1799-1850
Benson, E. F.1867-1940
Bierce, Ambrose,1842-1914?
Arlen, Michael,1895-1956
Balzac, Honoré de,1799-1850
Benson, E. F.1867-1940
Bierce, Ambrose,1842-1914?
Blackwood, Algernon.1869-1951
Blixen, Karen,1885-1962
Collier, John,1901-1980
Collins, Wilkie,1824-1889
Connell, Richard,1893-1949
Coppard, A. E.1878-1957
Crawford, F. Marion1854-1909
De la Mare, Walter,1873-1956
Dickens, Charles,1812-1870
Faulkner, William,1897-1962
Forster, E. M.1879-1970
Fraser, Phyllis Maurine,1915
Hardy, Thomas,1840-1928
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864
Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961
Henry, O.,1862-1910
Hichens, Robert,1864-1950
Household, Geoffrey,1900-1988
Jacobs, W. W.1863-1943
James, Henry,1843-1916
James, M. R.1862-1936
Kipling, Rudyard,1865-1936
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan,1814-1873
Lovecraft, H. P.1890-1937
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton,Baron,1803-1873
Machen, Arthur,1863-1947
Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893
Middleton, Richard.1882-1911
O'Brien, Fitz James,1828-1862
Onions, Oliver,1873-1961
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849
Saki,1870-1916
Sayers, Dorothy L.1893-1957
Stephenson, Carl,1886-1954
Wells, H. G.1866-1946
Wharton, Edith,1862-1937
White, Edward Lucas,1866-1934
Woollcott, Alexander,1887-1943
Blixen, Karen,1885-1962
Collier, John,1901-1980
Collins, Wilkie,1824-1889
Connell, Richard,1893-1949
Coppard, A. E.1878-1957
Crawford, F. Marion1854-1909
De la Mare, Walter,1873-1956
Dickens, Charles,1812-1870
Faulkner, William,1897-1962
Forster, E. M.1879-1970
Fraser, Phyllis Maurine,1915
Hardy, Thomas,1840-1928
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864
Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961
Henry, O.,1862-1910
Hichens, Robert,1864-1950
Household, Geoffrey,1900-1988
Jacobs, W. W.1863-1943
James, Henry,1843-1916
James, M. R.1862-1936
Kipling, Rudyard,1865-1936
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan,1814-1873
Lovecraft, H. P.1890-1937
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton,Baron,1803-1873
Machen, Arthur,1863-1947
Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893
Middleton, Richard.1882-1911
O'Brien, Fitz James,1828-1862
Onions, Oliver,1873-1961
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849
Saki,1870-1916
Sayers, Dorothy L.1893-1957
Stephenson, Carl,1886-1954
Wells, H. G.1866-1946
Wharton, Edith,1862-1937
White, Edward Lucas,1866-1934
Woollcott, Alexander,1887-1943
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