Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)

ISBN: 0679601287

Author: Phyllis Cerf Wagner

Condition: New

First published in 1944, here are fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense from some of the most renowned authors and horror writers in literary history, with an introduction and notes from Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction.-The Saturday ReviewThis spine-chilling anthology collects stories from such distinguished spell weavers like: Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat) Wilkie Collins (A Terribly Strange Bed) Henry James (Sir Edmund Orme) Guy de Maupassant (Was It a Dream?) O. Henry (The Furnished Room) Rudyard Kipling ( They ) H. G. Wells (Pollock and the Porroh Man)As well as tales from other masters of literature, including: Algernon Blackwood (Ancient Sorceries) Walter de la Mare (Out of the Deep") E.M. Forster (The Celestial Omnibus) Isak Dinesen (The Sailor-Boys Tale) H.P. Lovecraft (The Dunwich Horror) Dorothy L. Sayers (Suspicion) Ernest Hemingway (The Killers) And more!Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a gooseflesh special, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural is a must-read for every horror fan and lover of classic literature.