- Catalog Home
- » Masterpieces of terror and the supernatural: a treasury of spellbinding tales old & new
Masterpieces of terror and the supernatural: a treasury of spellbinding tales old & new
Average Rating
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Loading Description...
Table of Contents
From the Book
Fiends and creatures. 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.
Lovers and other monsters. 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.
Acts of God and other horrors. 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 beast within. 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
His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow
Rizpah / Lord Alfred Tennyson
The question / Stanley Ellin.
Ghosts and miscellaneous nightmares. The flayed hand / Guy de Maupassant
The hospice / Robert Aickman
The Christmas banquet / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The hungry house / Robert Bloch
The demon of the gibbet / Fitz-James O'Brien
The owl / Anatole Le Braz
No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince / Ralph Adams Cram
The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft
Riddles in the dark / J.R.R. Tolkien.
Excerpt
Loading Excerpt...
Author Notes
Loading Author Notes...
More Details
Contributors
Aickman, Robert
Andreyev, Leonid,1871-1919
Arnold, H. F.1902-1963
Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992
Baldwin, Dick,1948-2001
Andreyev, Leonid,1871-1919
Arnold, H. F.1902-1963
Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992
Baldwin, Dick,1948-2001
Bierce, Ambrose,1842-1914?
Bloch, Robert,1917-1994
Burrage, Alfred McLelland
Bürger, Gottfried August,1747-1794
Card, Orson Scott
Carr, John Dickson,1906-1977
Chin, M. Lucie,1947
Courtois, Pierre,active 1826
Cram, Ralph Adams,1863-1942
Crane, Stephen,1871-1900
Ellin, Stanley
Gardner, Craig Shaw
Godwin, Parke
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,1749-1832
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864
Hearn, Lafcadio,1850-1904
Highsmith, Patricia,1921-1995
Hoch, Edward D.,1930-2008
Kaye, Marvin compiler
Kaye, Saralee compiler
Le Braz, Anatole,1859-1926
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan,1814-1873
Lee, Tanith
Level, Maurice,1875-1926
London, Jack,1876-1916
Lovecraft, H. P.1890-1937
Matheson, Richard,1926-2013
Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893
Merritt, Abraham,1884-1943
Morrow, W. C.,1854-1923
Nash, Ogden,1902-1971
O'Brien, Fitz James,1828-1862
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849
Raupach, Ernst Benjamin Salomo,1784-1852
Runyon, Damon,1880-1946
Russell, Ray
Saki,1870-1916
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,1797-1851
Singer, Isaac Bashevis,1904-1991
Snow, Jack
Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850-1894
Stoker, Bram,1847-1912
Sturgeon, Theodore
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,Baron,1809-1892
Thomas, Dylan,1914-1953
Tolkien, J. R. R.1892-1973
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich,1818-1883
Wexelblat, Richard L
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892
Williams, Tennessee,1911-1983
Bloch, Robert,1917-1994
Burrage, Alfred McLelland
Bürger, Gottfried August,1747-1794
Card, Orson Scott
Carr, John Dickson,1906-1977
Chin, M. Lucie,1947
Courtois, Pierre,active 1826
Cram, Ralph Adams,1863-1942
Crane, Stephen,1871-1900
Ellin, Stanley
Gardner, Craig Shaw
Godwin, Parke
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,1749-1832
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864
Hearn, Lafcadio,1850-1904
Highsmith, Patricia,1921-1995
Hoch, Edward D.,1930-2008
Kaye, Marvin compiler
Kaye, Saralee compiler
Le Braz, Anatole,1859-1926
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan,1814-1873
Lee, Tanith
Level, Maurice,1875-1926
London, Jack,1876-1916
Lovecraft, H. P.1890-1937
Matheson, Richard,1926-2013
Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893
Merritt, Abraham,1884-1943
Morrow, W. C.,1854-1923
Nash, Ogden,1902-1971
O'Brien, Fitz James,1828-1862
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849
Raupach, Ernst Benjamin Salomo,1784-1852
Runyon, Damon,1880-1946
Russell, Ray
Saki,1870-1916
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,1797-1851
Singer, Isaac Bashevis,1904-1991
Snow, Jack
Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850-1894
Stoker, Bram,1847-1912
Sturgeon, Theodore
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,Baron,1809-1892
Thomas, Dylan,1914-1953
Tolkien, J. R. R.1892-1973
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich,1818-1883
Wexelblat, Richard L
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892
Williams, Tennessee,1911-1983
ISBN
9780385185493
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Loading Staff View.