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Stories of terror and the supernatural
- Title
- Stories of terror and the supernatural / compiled by Herman Graf.
- Publication
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-1559 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Graf, Herman
- Description
- 423 p.; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Ghosts, murder, demonic possession, and psychological torment : these are just some of the chilling subjects taken up by this anthology of haunted tales, comprised of several centuries of works from many of the greatest Victorian, French, and American authors of the macabre. Some of these stories are world-famous classics in their field, and others are rare but compelling tales"--P. [4] of cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Horror fiction.
- Contents
- La grande bretêche / Honoré De Balzac -- The black cat / Edgar Allen Poe -- A terribly strange bed / William Wilkie Collins -- Three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The trial for murder / Charles Dickens -- Green tea / Sheridan Le Fanu -- Sir Edmund Orme / Henry James -- The horla / Guy De Maupassant -- Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The great god Pan / Arthur Machen -- The return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling -- The open window / Saki (H. H. Munro) -- The dead hand / William Wilkie Collins -- The suicide club / Robert Louis Stevenson : Story of the young man with the cream tarts ; Story of the physician and the saratoga trunk ; The adventure of the Hansom cab -- The adventures of a German student / Washington Irving -- The Christmas banquet / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- How fear departed in the long gallery / E. F. Benson -- The room in the tower / E. F. Benson -- Napoleon and the spectre / Charlotte Brontë -- The affair at Grover Station / Willa Cather -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-1559
- ISBN
- 9781626362543 (pbk.)
- 1626362548 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 829989378
- Title
- Stories of terror and the supernatural / compiled by Herman Graf.
- Imprint
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2013.
- Added Author
- Graf, Herman, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-1559