Masters of Horror, Suspense and the Supernatural: 100 Stories

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This carefully researched anthology brings together some of the recognized masterpieces in the literature of horror and suspense from around the world. At the same time especial attention has been given to some rarities (like a macabre tale from Giacomo Casanova or a ghost story by Heinrich Heine, among others) and lesser known pieces that deserve a wider readership, including some especially translated for this edition (stories by the Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga, the Nicaraguan Ruben Dario, and the Argentine Noemi Sutera, among others).

Martin 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"


CONTENTS (partial list)

Ambrose Bierce The Death of Halpin Frayser

Francis Marion Crawford The upper berth

ETA Hoffmann The Sandman

MR James Casting the Runes

Arthur Machen The Great God Pan

Jack London Batard

Mark Twain Piteous Relics at Chamonix

Virginia Woolf A Haunted House

Apuleius Panthia and Meroe

Algernon Blackwood The Willows

Anton Chekhov Overdoing it

Ruben Dario The Larva

Giacomo Casanova A Practical Joke

Théophile Gautier The Mummy's Foot

The Hunter Hackelnberg: A German Folktale

Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper

Daniel Defoe The Apparition of Mrs Veal

H Rider Haggard Barbara Who Came Back

Julian Hawthorne Ken's Mystery

The Prince and the Badger A Japanese Folktale

Leo Tolstoy How Much Land Does a Man Need

Max Beerbohm Enoch Soames

Honoré de Balzac The elixir of life

Addington Bruce The Mysterious Mr Home

Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Haunted and the Haunters

Joseph Conrad The Shadow-Line

GK Chesterton – How I Found the Superman

Wilkie Collins - A Terribly Strange Bed

Arthur Conan Doyle The Captain of the “Pole-Star”

Lord Dunsany The Exiles Club

Charles B Cory An Aztec Mummy

The Story of Ming-Y: A Chinese Folktale

Ralph Adams Cram The Dead Valley

Stephen Crane The Upturned Face

Walter De la Mare Seaton's Aunt

Charles Dickens The Signal-Man

Gustave Flaubert The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller

Erckmann-Chatrian The Man-Wolf

Nukunguasik: An Eskimo Folktale

George Frazer Witches?

Elizabeth Gaskell Old Nurse' Story

Nikolay Gogol St Johns’ Eve

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Wedding Knell

Heinrich Heine The Argument

O Henry The Door of Unrest

Victor Hugo - The Struggle

Washigton Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

W W Jacobs The Monkey’s Paw

Henry James The Jolly Corner

James Joyce The Sisters

Mary H Kingsley Apparitions (from Travels in West Africa)

Le Fanu Le Fanu Schalken the Painter

Noemí Sutera Summer 1972

Margaret Oliphant - Open Door

Edgard Allan Poe Morella

Saki Sredni Vashtar

Horacio Quiroga Hiptalmic mark

R L Stevenson The Merry Men

Glam (from Grettir’s Saga)

Procopius The Secret History of the Court of Justinian

Guy de Maupassant The Inn

Herman Melville Hood's Isle

S Mukerji A Very Strange Incident

Margaret Murray A Recipe for Flying

Fitz-James O'Brien The Lost Room

Elliott O'Donnell An Archeological Finding

Howard Pease The Tale of Three Antiquaries

Alexander Pushkin The Queen of Spades

A Roman Ghost

The Dead Mother: A Russian Folktale

Baring-Gould A Galician Were-Wolf

Walter Scott Wandering Willie's Tale

The Werewolf at Merionethshire
HG Wells The plattner story

Edith Wharton Afterward

Yeats Village ghosts

Bram Stoker Dracula's Guest

Thackeray The Notch on the Axe

Turgenev Father Alexeyi's Story

Two Argentine Urban Legend

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