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Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
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H. G. Wells,Kris Neville,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert W. Chambers,Martin H. Greenberg,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Edith Wharton,Cornell Woolrich,F. W. Harvey,Judith Merrill,Henry Slesar,Avram Davidson,Gertrude Henderson,Ray Bradbury,Rudyard Kipling,Charles G. Waugh,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Hay,C. L. Moore,Edgar Allan Poe,Fritz Leiber,Isaac Asimov,Helen McCloy,Manly Wade Wellman,August Derleth |
Contains:
Under the knife / H.G. Wells --
Children of the Zodiac / Rudyard Kipling --
The girl who found things / Henry Slesar --
The emigrant banshee / Gertrude Henderson --
[Young Goodman Brow… |
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Classic Ghost Stories
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Marion Crawford,W. W. Jacobs,Daniel Defoe,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Frederick Marryat,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Sir Walter Scott,Margaret Oliphant |
LeFanu, J. S. Sir Dominick Sarsfield.
Dickens, C. The story of the bagman's uncle.
Jacobs, W. W. The monkey's paw.
Scott, W., Sir. Wandering Willie's tale.
Stoker, B. Dracula's guest.
Oliph… |
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Types of the Short Story
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Washington Irving,Heydrick, Benjamin Alexander,Rudyard Kipling,Robert Louis Stevenson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,J. M. Barrie,Edgar Allan Poe,Edward Everett Hale |
The tale: Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving.
Story of dramatic incident: The ambitious guest, by N. Hawthorne.
Story of local color: Namgay Doola, by R. Kipling.
Love story: Two of them, by J. Barri… |
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The Nightmare Reader
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John Gawsworth,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert Bloch,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Washington Irving,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Ray Bradbury,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Arthur C. Clarke,Edgar Allan Poe,Елена Петровна Блаватская,Montague Summers,Thomas De Quincey,Algernon Blackwood,Lord Dunsany,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Aleister Crowley,Peter Haining,Arthur Machen,Montague Rhodes James,Lafcadio Hearn,August Derleth,Matthew Lewis,C.F. Hoffman |
CONTENTS:
Introduction. What hath light wrought? / by Isaac Asimov
Visitation. The midnight embrace / by Matthew Lewis
The Frankenstein theme. The transformation / by Mary Shelley
Dream state. … |
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The Coming Race
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton |
The Coming Race, an early science-fiction work, with its superman race the Vril-ya descended from the same ancestors as the great Aryan family, from which in varied streams has flowed the dominant ci… |
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Zanoni
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton |
“Zanoni” is a book about two immortals and their lives during immortality. One being is the cold, calm, heartless, void of all passion; more intellect than man. The other is his pupil, Zanoni, the et… |
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The Last Days of Pompeii
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton |
Un classique de la littérature qui redonne vie à la civilisation pompéienne disparue dans l'éruption du Vésuve. Pompéi, 24 août 79 après Jésus-Christ. Cette petite ville romaine du sud de l'Italie vi… |
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The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton |
This is a classic ghost story. It will send chills through the reader. Great Book!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to deciphe… |
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Pelham
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton |
This is the tale of Henry Pelham. He falls in love with his best friend’s sister, and then learns that his friend is accused of murder. He must find the real killer in order to marry his love. The bo… |
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