The Best Horror Stories

By Geoffrey Household, Thomas Burke, Stanley Ellin, A. E. Coppard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Bloch, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy L. Sayers, Graham Greene, William Faulkner, Cornell Woolrich, John Keir Cross, Robert Silverberg, Ray Bradbury, David Fletcher, Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, John Collier, Daphne du Maurier, Roald Dahl, Flannery O'Connor, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski

Subjects: short stories, short story, gallows, Mentally ill women, death, Gothic fiction, unreliable narrators, Crime fiction, Horror stories, Crime, premature burial, Horror tales, self-hatred, nonlinear narrative, catalepsy, American Horror tales, Horror, diners, cannibalism, gentleman's agreements, first-person narrative, unconsciousness, Murder, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, Fiction, crypts, Children's fiction, allegory, Taphophobia, recluses, American literature, cats, Juvenile fiction, tradition, Classic Literature, macabre, phobias, Horror fiction, change, berths, Detective and mystery stories

Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski -- Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard -- Cinci / Luigi Pirandello -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich -- Taboo / Geoffrey Household -- A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene -- The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The veld / Ray Bradbury -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- [Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W) / Roald Dahl -- Robert / Stanley Ellin -- The question / Stanley Ellin -- The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier -- Corabella / David Fletcher.