Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural by Pierre Courtois, M. Lucie Chin, Bram Stoker, Jack London, Fitz-James O'Brien, A.M. Burrage, A. Merritt, Ivan Turgenev, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Sturgeon, Ogden Nash, Gottfried August Bürger, Robert Aickman, Patricia Highsmith, H.F. Arnold, Dick Baldwin, Edward D. Hoch, Robert Bloch, Saralee Kaye, Marvin Kaye, Richard Matheson, Jack Snow, Stanley Ellis, Ray Russell, Leonid Andreyev, John Dickson Carr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Damon Runyon, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, Maurice Level, Tanith Lee, Edgar Allan Poe, Parke Godwin, Ambrose Bierce, W.C. Morrow, Richard L. Wexelblat, Walt Whitman, Mary Shelley, Orson Scott Card, Tennessee Williams, Saki, Craig Shaw Gardner, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Guy de Maupassant, Lafcadio Hearn, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ludwig Tieck, Stephen Crane, Alfred Tennyson

616 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction horror short stories adventurous dark slow-paced
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A gripping, chilling collection of 47 stories and six poems, dating back to Shelley and Stevenson, but also including modern masters.

Community Reviews Summary of 58 reviews

Moods

dark 100%
emotional 100%
lighthearted 100%
mysterious 100%
reflective 100%
tense 100%

Pace

medium 100%

Plot- or character-driven?

Plot: 100%

Strong character development?

No: 100%

Loveable characters?

No: 100%

Diverse cast of characters?

Yes: 100%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

It's complicated: 100%

Average rating

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