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Monster Festival Classic Tales of the Macabre
Monster Festival Classic Tales of the Macabre Author:Protter, Eric No one can say exactly what a monster is. What this book proves beyond doubt is that monsters make marvelous story material. Collected here are some of the best supernatural tales to be found anywhere. They deal with monsters and monstrous happenings - the realm of the inexplicable, the eerie, the fantastic. Some of these stories are written for... more » the sheer thrill they communicate; others pry inside the human mind and make us shrink in horror to recognize the monster within us.
Throughout the ages, writers have been fascinated by this irrational aspect of life. Among the stories included in this collection are masterful tales by Bram Stoker, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Alexander Woollcott, and Fitz-James O'Brien.« less