The Penguin Book of Horror Stories by J.A. Cuddon

The Penguin Book of Horror Stories

J.A. Cuddon with Various, L.P. Hartley, Augustus Muir, Geoffrey Household, John Metcalfe, Monica Dickens, A.M. Burrage, Robert Graves, Patricia Highsmith, J.N. Allan, Evelyn Waugh, Gerald Kersh, H.G. Wells, Prosper Mérimée, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Carl Stephenson, E.F. Benson, William Hope Hodgson, W.F. Harvey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dawn Muscillo, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, Roald Dahl, Honoré de Balzac, Ambrose Bierce, James Hogg, Ray Bradbury, Vilas Sarang, Perceval London, Henry James, Yvor Winters, John Lennon, Muriel Spark, John Russell, M.R. James, Will F. Jenkins, D.K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Dorothy K. Haynes, Edgar Allan Poe

607 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark slow-paced
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Here are the depths of fear and darkness, the furthest limits of agony in mind and body...Born in the eighteenth century, the horror story produced a literature of terror filled with werewolves and vampires, and which borrowed many elements from i...

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