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The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
Author: J. A. Cuddon (Editor)
Stories by authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, and Ray Bradbury depict terrifying events and encounters with the supernatural. —
  • The Monk of horror, or The Conclave of corpses, by Anonymous --
  • The Astrologer's prediction, or The Maniac's fate, by Anonymous --
  • The expedition to Hell, by James Hogg ...  more »
  • Mateo Falcone, by Prosper Merimee --
  • The Case of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe --
  • Le Grande Breteche, by Honore de Balzac --
  • The romance of certain old clothes, by Henry James --
  • Who knows?, by Guy de Maupassant --
  • The body snatcher, by Robert Louis Stevenson --
  • The death of Olivier Becaille, by Emile Zola --
  • The boarded window, by Ambrose Bierce --
  • Lost hearts, by M. R. James --
  • The sea-raiders, by H. G. Wells --
  • The derelict, by William Hope Hodgson --
  • Thurnley Abbey, by Perceval Landon --
  • The fourth man, by John Russell --
  • In the penal colony, by Franz Kafka --
  • The waxwork, by A. M. Burrage --
  • Mrs. Amworth, by E. F. Benson --
  • The reptile, by Augustus Muir --
  • Mr. Meldrum's Mania, by John Metcalfe --
  • The beast with five fingers, by William Fryer Harvey --
  • Dry September, by William Faulkner --
  • Couching at the door, by D. K. Broster --
  • The two bottles of relish, by Lord Dunsany --
  • The man who liked Dickens, by Evelyn Waugh --
  • Taboo, by Geoffrey Household --
  • The thought, by L. P. Hartley --
  • Comrade death, by Gerald Kersh --
  • Leningen versus the ants, by Carl Stephenson --
  • The brink of darkness, by Yvor Winters --
  • Activity time, by Monica Dickens --
  • Earth to Earth, by Robert Graves --
  • The dwarf, by Ray Bradbury --
  • The Portabello Road, by Muriel Spark --
  • No flies on Frank, by John Lennon --
  • Sister Coxall's revenge, by Dawn Muscillo --
  • Thou shalt not suffer a witch..., by Dorothy K. Haynes --
  • The terrapin, by Patricia Highsmith --
  • Man from the south, by Roald Dahl --
  • Uneasy home-coming, by Will F. Jenkins --
  • The Aquarist, by J. N. Allan --
  • An interview with M. Chakko, by Vilas Sarang

     
ISBN-13: 9780140067996
ISBN-10: 014006799X
Publication Date: 4/2/1985
Pages: 608
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Publisher: Penguin
Book Type: Paperback
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