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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Penguin book of horror stories. Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1984 (OCoLC)756448368 |
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| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
J A Cuddon |
| ISBN: | 014006799X 9780140067996 |
| OCLC Number: | 12750297 |
| Description: | 607 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by J.A. Cuddon. |
Abstract:
Stories by authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, and Ray Bradbury depict terrifying events and encounters with the supernatural.
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