{"product_id":"2940012170880","title":"TWILIGHT CREATURES: 40 Stories of Vampires, Werewolves, and other Unspeakable Beings","description":"“TWILIGHT CREATURES: Stories of Vampires, Werewolves and other Unspeakable Beings” features 40 absorbing and fascinating short stories and legends from around the world, some of them translated to English for the first time. Martin Monreal provides an introductory essay, which situates each story in its proper context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTWILIGHT CREATURES includes famous and lesser known stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, Noemi Sutera, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant, H. R. Haggard, Apuleius, Turgenev, H. Clifford, Baring-Gould, Saki, E. Peattie, Mary Freeman, Machen, Poe, Benson, Blackwood, Bierce, Wells, Dunsany, Conan Doyle, O’Donnell, H. James, W.W. Jacobs, Hawthorne, Stevenson, Gogol, and Chekhov, among others, plus a spooky selection of French, Eskimo, Argentine, Russian, Japanese and Chinese folktales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplore the world of TWILIGHT CREATURES and by the time you are done reading the last piece, you might just agree with M.R. James’ view \"that, humanly speaking, all these many solemn events have a meaning for us, if our limited intelligence permitted of our disintegrating it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Monreal and Gabriela Garcia are the editors of the following anthologies: \"Masters of Horror, Suspense and the Supernatural: 100 Stories,\" \"The Vampire Genome: The Best Vampire Stories, Poems and Essays,\" \"Trail of the Necronomicon: An Anthology of the Stories and Novels that Influenced H.P. Lovecraft,\"  \"TWILIGHT CREATURES: 40 Stories of Vampires, Werewolves, and other Unspeakable Beings,\" and \"Love Hurts: the Best Vampire, Gothic and Supernatural Romances\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. M.R. James  Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance\u003cbr\u003e2. J. Sheridan Le Fanu  Carmilla \u003cbr\u003e3. Bram Stoker  In the presence of Vampires \u003cbr\u003e(from Dracula)\u003cbr\u003e4. Guy de Maupassant  The Horla \u003cbr\u003e5. Henry Rider Haggard  Only a Dream\u003cbr\u003e6. Lucius Apuleius  The Corpse Watcher\u003cbr\u003e7. Ivan Turgenev  Clara Militch\u003cbr\u003e8. Hugh Clifford  A Night of Terror\u003cbr\u003e9. Love Unrequited  (A Werewolf Legend from France) \u003cbr\u003e10. Sabine Baring-Gould  Jean Grenier: Werewolf\u003cbr\u003e11. Saki  The Wolves of Cernogratz \u003cbr\u003e12. Elia W. Peattie  On the Northern Ice\u003cbr\u003e13. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman  The Vacant Lot\u003cbr\u003e14. Fernand D’Anglais  The Dissapearance of Mr. Najh \u003cbr\u003e15. Arthur Machen  The White People\u003cbr\u003e16. Edgard Allan Poe  Metzengerstein\u003cbr\u003e17. The Shroud  (A Russian Folktale)\u003cbr\u003e18. The Legend of Rheineck  (A German Folktale) \u003cbr\u003e19. Four Eskimo Folktales  a. Papik, \u003cbr\u003ewho killed his wife's brother  \u003cbr\u003e20.   b. Artuk, who did all forbidden things\u003cbr\u003e21.   c. The Spirit of the Singing House\u003cbr\u003e22.   d. The boy from the bottom of the sea\u003cbr\u003e23. Algernon Blackwood  The Wendigo\u003cbr\u003e24. E.F.Benson  The Man Who Went too Far\u003cbr\u003e25. Ambrose Bierce  The Death of Halpin Frayser\u003cbr\u003e26. H.G.Wells  The Valley of Spiders\u003cbr\u003e27. Mujina  (A Japanese Legend)\u003cbr\u003e28. The Story of Ming-Y  (A Chinese Folktale) \u003cbr\u003e29. Lord Dunsany  Where the Tides Ebb and Flow\u003cbr\u003e30. Arthur Conan Doyle  The Horor of Heights\u003cbr\u003e31. Arthur Christopher Benson  Out of the Sea\u003cbr\u003e32. Elliott O'Donnell  Up the Nile River\u003cbr\u003e33. Henry James  The Turn of the Screw\u003cbr\u003e34. W.W. Jacobs  The Well\u003cbr\u003e35. Nathaniel Hawthorne  Ethan Brand\u003cbr\u003e36. Robert Louis Stevenson  Thrawn Janet\u003cbr\u003e37. Noemí Sutera  Summer 1972\u003cbr\u003e38. Nikolay V. Gogol  The Cloak \u003cbr\u003e39. Ivan Turgenev  The Old Woman\u003cbr\u003e40. Anton Chekhov  A Dead Body","brand":"Torito Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069138682096,"sku":"2940012170880","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012170880_p0.jpg?v=1763552967","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012170880","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}