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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Tales of Mystery and Horror	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	> Admirers of Mrs. Gaskell's immensely popular novel Cranford may not realize that the celebrated Victorian novelist also wrote short stories of a high quality. The seven stories in the present vol…	OL1103178W
A touch of chill	Joan Aiken	Author - Joan Aiken - The homely and the exotic mix in fifteen unique tales. The macabre and witty stories are a melange of horror guaranteed to send chills up the spine of any sleepless reader.	OL14851434W
Poems	Percy Bysshe Shelley	A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full.	OL14853463W
Walls of Fear	Kathryn Cramer	Horror anthology edited by Kathryn Cramer and including stories by Chet Williamson, Edward Bryant, Garry Kilworth, Gene Wolfe, Greg Cox, Gwyneth Jones, Ian Watson, Jack Womack, James Morrow, Jessica …	OL14914299W
Beneath the moors and darker places	Brian Lumley	In addition to his stellar Necroscope series, Brian Lumley is highly regarded for his short fiction, for which he has won the British Fantasy Award. Beneath the Moors and Darker Places, a companion t…	OL14925337W
Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Harold Bloom	Seven critical essays bringing various interpretations to the novel about a monster created by a scientist.	OL14942132W
Bloom's Reviews - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Harold Bloom	Summary: includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and index of themes and ideas.	OL14942358W
More Horowitz Horror	Anthony Horowitz	Ever pictured your own funeral? You won't be able to help it when you read some of the stories in this nightmarish collection, where things are never what they appear. Funerals are just the beginning…	OL14952372W
The Collector	John Fowles	Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping her in his cellar in the belief that she will eventually come to love him. The story is …	OL15008W
Short circuits	Donald R. Gallo	Includes offerings from Joan Lowery Nixon, Vivien Alcock, Robert Westall, and Joan Aiken.	OL15163961W
Reign of terror	Michel Parry	CONTENTS: Michel Parry Introduction – An Age In Horror R. H. Barham – A Singular Passage In The Life Of The Late Henry Harris, Doctor In Divinity James Grant – The Phantom Regiment G. P. R. J…	OL15411384W
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw	W. W. Jacobs,Edith Wharton,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Saki	Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibr…	OL15646130W
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural	Robert Phillips,H. G. Wells,Robert Bloch,Charles L. Grant,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Stephen King,Thomas M. Disch,Jack Dann,William Faulkner,Winston S. Churchill,Ramsey Campbell,Cornell Woolrich,H.P. Lovecraft,William F. Nolan,Henry Slesar,Elizabeth Morton,Fredric Brown,John Lutz,Robert Silverberg,Truman Capote,Theodore Sturgeon,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Barry Malzberg,Theodore Cogswell,Robert Scheckley,Edgar Allan Poe,Fritz Leiber,Arthur Porges,Bill Pronzini,Bram Stoker,Theodore Dreiser,Joyce Carol Oates,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Cyril M. Kornbluth,Ray Russell,Barry N. Malzberg,Edward D. Hoch,Karl Edward Wagner,Evan Hunter,Arthur L. Samuels,Adobe James	Contains: Hop frog / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Rappaccini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Squire Toby's will / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The squaw / Bram Stok…	OL15705711W
The Ribbajack & Other Haunting Tales	Brian Jacques	New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques brings you six spine-tingling tales! What if revenge were a monster of your own creation, and all you needed to summon it were enough hatred and eno…	OL15858041W
Ready or not, here come fourteen frightening stories!	Joan Kahn	A collection of fourteen unsettling tales by a variety of authors.	OL16997117W
Scary! 2	Arthur Conan Doyle,Anne McCaffrey,Robert Swindells,Philip Pullman,Bram Stoker,Dean Koontz,R. L. Stine,Russell Hoban,Peter Haining,Neil Gaiman,Montague Rhodes James,Pete Johnson,Alison Prince	Video Nasty by Philip Pullman The House Of No Return by R.L. Stine Lost Hearts by M.R. James Finders Keepers by Anne McCaffrey The Black Dress by Alison Prince The Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan…	OL17852862W
Horowitz horror	Anthony Horowitz	Some mysterious deaths linked to a second hand camera, a boy trapped inside a computer game, a frightening journey on a bus that doesn't seem to exist and a terrifying dream that comes true. These ar…	OL17874441W
Tales to freeze the blood	Ambrose Bierce,Stephen Jones	Collection contains: The Furnished room / O. Henry -- The Night-doings at "Deadman's" / Ambrose Bierce -- A Little night fishing / Sydney J. Bounds -- Not yet solved / Anonymous -- The Hostelry…	OL18985834W
Phantoms and fantasies	Rudyard Kipling	Stories of the bizarre and fantastic, set in India, England, France, and aboard ship.	OL20026W
Into the Mummy's Tomb	Arthur Conan Doyle,Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall,Mark Twain,A. C. Mace,H.P. Lovecraft,H. Rider Haggard,Ray Bradbury,Elizabeth Peters,Louisa May Alcott,Tennessee Williams,Agatha Christie,Howard Carter,Edgar Allan Poe,Sax Rohmer,Bram Stoker,John Richard Stephens,Anne Rice	Arthur Weigall Thc Malevolence of Ancient Egyptian Spirits Louisa May Alcott Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse Various Egyptologists Raiding Mummies' Tombs Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Rin…	OL2639723W