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Post by allthingshorror on Sept 22, 2009 18:37:31 GMT
Art and Educational Publishers (1945) Preface: J. L. Hardie
Arthur Machen – The Cosy Room
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Algernon Blackwood – Running Wolf
E. A. Poe – The Facts In The Case of M. Valdemar
W. W. Jacobs – The Monkey’s Paw
Lord Lytton – The Haunters And The Haunted
Richard Hughes – A Night At A Cottage
Washington Irvine – The Spectre Bridegroom
J. S. Le Fanu – Shalken The Painter
R. L. Stevenson – Markheim
Mrs. Gaskell – The Squire’s Story
Thomas Hardy – The Three Strangers
R. H. Barham – A Singular Passage In The Life Of The Late Henry Harris, D. D.
W. M. Thackeray – The Story Of Mary Ancel
Oliver Onions – The Accident
Wilkie Collins – A Terribly Strange Bed
Sir Walter Scott – The Mirror
F. Marion Crawford – The Upper Berth
Frederick Marryat – The Werewolf
Joseph Conrad – Because Of The Dollars
Fitz-James O’Brien – The Diamond Lens
Ambrose Bierce – A Watcher By The DeadBLURB: The short stories by British and American authors, classic and contemporary, included in this volume, though diverse and varied in plot and treatment have in common the element of strangeness that compels attention and appeals instinctively to the sense of wonder. They are , in a word, unusual in subject or setting, character or atmosphere, and they offer to the reader something that is different, which excites his curiosity and fires imagination. In this selection there are representative tales of many different types - of the fantastic and the weird, of the psychic and the occult, of the uncanny and the supernatural, but all of them in their several kinds have a special claim to literary excellence, and many are indeed acknowleged masterpieces in this fascinating art form.
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