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The Penguin book of horror stories

Author: J A Cuddon
Publisher: Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1984.
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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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Penguin book of horror stories.
Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1984
(OCoLC)756448368
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.

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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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