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Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old and New
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old and New Author:Marvin Kaye (Editor) This exceptional compilation -- a veritable collector's volume -- contains more than fifty short stories, novellas, and poems, both classic and modern, by some of the most distinguished writers of all time. Masterful works by Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Sheridan LeFanu, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tennessee Williams, Isaac Asimov, ... more »in addition to little-known masterpieces of fantasy and terror by Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, John Dickson Carr, Damon Runyon, among others, makes this one of the most wide-ranging, outstanding collections of its kind.
Of particular interest are the tales "Riddles in the Dark" by J. R. R. Tolkein, reprinted in its original version for the first time in nearly half a century, and "The Pool of the Stone God," an obscure work by eminent fantasy writer A. Merritt.
Dracula's guest / Bram Stoker --
The professor's teddy bear / Theodore Sturgeon --
Bubnoff and the devil / Ivan Turgenev --
The quest for blank claveringi / Patricia Highsmith --
The erl king / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe --
The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson --
A malady of magicks / Craig Shaw Gardner --
Lan Lung / M. Lucie Chin --
The dragon over Hackensack / Richard L. Wexelblat --
The transformation / Mary W. Shelley --
The faceless thing / Edward D. Hoch --
The anchor / Jack Snow --
When the clock strikes / Tanith Lee --
Oshidori / Lafcadio Hearn --
Carmilla / Sheridan LeFanu --
Eumenides in the fourth floor lavatory / Orson Scott Card --
Lenore / Gottfried August Burger --
The black wedding / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Hop frog / Edgar Allan Poe --
Sardonicus / Ray Russell --
Graveyard shift / Richard Matheson --
Wake not the dead / Johann Ludwig Tieck --
Night and silence / Maurice Level --
Flies / Isaac Asimov --
The night wire / H.F. Arnold --
Last Respects / Dick Baldwin --
The pool of the stone god / A. Merritt --
A tale of the thirteenth floor / Ogden Nash --
The tree / Dylan Thomas --
Stroke of mercy / Parke Godwin --
Lazarus / Leonid Andreyev --
The waxwork / A.M. Burrage --
The silent couple / Pierre Courtois --
Moon face / Jack London --
Death in the school room / Walt Whitman --
The upturned face / Stephen Crane --
One summer night / Ambrose Bierce --
The easter egg / H.H. Munro (Saki) --
The house in Goblin Wood / John Dickson Carr --
The vengeance of Nitocris / Tennessee Williams --
The informal execution of Soupbone Pew / Damon Runyon --