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The Nightmare Reader The Nightmare Reader 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. … OL3151660W
Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd Peter Haining Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent i… OL3151699W