Masterpieces of terror and the supernatural : a treasury of spellbinding tales old & new /
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| Imprint: | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1985. |
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| Description: | xv, 623 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Horror tales. Paranormal fiction. Horror tales. Paranormal fiction. Gothic fiction. Horror fiction. Novellas. Paranormal fiction. Short stories. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6822039 |
Table of Contents:
- Dracula's guest / Bram Stoker
- The professor's teddy bear / Theodore Sturgeon
- Bubnoff and the devil / Ivan Turgenev
- The quest for blank claveringi / Patricia Highsmith
- The erl king / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson
- A malady of magicks / Craig Shaw Gardner
- Lan Lung / M. Lucie Chin
- The dragon over Hackensack / Richard L. Wexelblat
- The transformation / Mary W. Shelley
- The faceless thing / Edward D. Hoch.
- The anchor / Jack Snow
- When the clock strikes / Tanith Lee
- Oshidori / Lafcadio Hearn
- Carmilla / Sheridan LeFanu
- Eumenides in the fourth floor lavatory / Orson Scott Card
- Lenore / Gottfried August Burger
- The black wedding / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Hop frog / Edgar Allan Poe
- Sardonicus / Ray Russell
- Graveyard shift / Richard Matheson
- Wake not the dead / Johann Ludwig Tieck
- Night and silence / Maurice Level.
- Flies / Isaac Asimov
- The night wire / H. F. Arnold
- Last Respects / Dick Baldwin
- The pool of the stone god / A. Merritt
- A tale of the thirteenth floor / Ogden Nash
- The tree / Dylan Thomas
- Stroke of mercy
- Parke Godwin
- Lazarus / Leonid Andreyev.
- The waxwork / A.M. Burrage
- The silent couple / Pierre Courtois
- Moon face / Jack London
- Death in the school room / Walt Whitman
- The upturned face / Stephen Crane
- One summer night / Ambrose Bierce
- The easter egg / H. H. Munro (Saki)
- The house in Goblin Wood / John Dickson Carr
- The vengeance of Nitocris / Tennessee Williams
- The informal execution of Soupbone Pew / Damon Runyon
- His unconquerable enemy / W. C. Morrow
- Rizpah / Lord Alfred Tennyson
- The question / Stanley Ellin.
- The flayed hand / Guy de Maupassant
- The hospice / Robert Aickman
- The Christmas banquet / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The hungry house / Robert Bloch
- The demon of the gibbet / Fitz-James O'Brien
- The owl / Anatole Le Braz
- No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince / Ralph Adams Cram
- The music of Erich Zann / H. P. Lovecraft
- Riddles in the dark / J. R. R. Tolkien.