The Best Horror Stories
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Author
- Bloch, Robert
- Ray Bradbury
- John Keir Cross
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
- Guy de Maupassant
- Hardy, Thomas
- Conrad, Joseph
- Thomas Burke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski
- A. E. Coppard
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Geoffrey Household
- Greene, Graham
- C. M. Kornbluth
- Robert Bloch
- John Collier
- Robert Silverberg
- William Faulkner
- O'Connor, Flannery.
- Dahl, Roald.
- Stanley Ellin
- Patricia Highsmith
- Du Maurier, Daphne
- David Fletcher
Publication
1990 - Mallard Press, New York
Language
English
Word Count
99,500 words, Guess
Page Count
398 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebesthorrorstorie0000bloc
- ISBN-10079245250X
- ISBN-139780792452508
- Goodreads59352681
- OCLC Control Number22337411
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL7811037M
Description
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski -- Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard -- Cinci / Luigi Pirandello -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich -- Taboo / Geoffrey Household -- A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene -- The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The veld / Ray Bradbury -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- [Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W) / Roald Dahl -- Robert / Stanley Ellin -- The question / Stanley Ellin -- The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier -- Corabella / David Fletcher.
Description
Over thirty chilling tales of gruesome evil—a man buried alive; a young girl dancing to her death; Jack the Ripper alive and well in modern Chicago and many more haunting terrors! --front flap
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