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Classic Ghost Stories
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O. Henry,Francis Marion Crawford,Rudyard Kipling,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,E. F. Benson,Montague Rhodes James,Saki,Vincent O'Sullivan,P C Wren |
Judge's house / Bram Stoker --
Upper berth / F. Marion Crawford --
Narrative of the Ghost of a hand / J. Sheridan Le Fanu --
To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens --
Tell-tale heart … |
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The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Thomas Hardy,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Edgar Allan Poe,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Robert Etty,Montague Rhodes James |
The Ostler / Wilkie Collins --
The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell --
[Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
[Pit and the… |
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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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A warning to the curious and other stories
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Montague Rhodes James |
M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisabl… |
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