Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old and New by Pierre Courtois, M. Lucie Chin, Bram Stoker, Alfred McClelland Burrage, Jack London, Fitz-James O'Brien, A. Merritt, Ivan Turgenev, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Sturgeon, Gottfried August Bürger, Robert Aickman, Patricia Highsmith, H.F. Arnold, Dick Baldwin, Edward D. Hoch, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Jack Snow, Ray Russell, Leonid Andreyev, John Dickson Carr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Damon Runyon, Isaac Asimov, Maurice Level, Tanith Lee, Edgar Allan Poe, Parke Godwin, Ambrose Bierce, Stanley Ellin, W.C. Morrow, Richard L. Wexelblat, Walt Whitman, Ogden Mash, 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, Anatole Le Braz

Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old and New

Pierre Courtois, M. Lucie Chin, Bram Stoker, Alfred McClelland Burrage, Jack London, Fitz-James O'Brien, A. Merritt, Ivan Turgenev, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Sturgeon, Gottfried August Bürger, Robert Aickman, Patricia Highsmith, H.F. Arnold, Dick Baldwin, Edward D. Hoch, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Jack Snow, Ray Russell, Leonid Andreyev, John Dickson Carr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Damon Runyon, Isaac Asimov, Maurice Level, Tanith Lee, Edgar Allan Poe, Parke Godwin, Ambrose Bierce, Stanley Ellin, W.C. Morrow, Richard L. Wexelblat, Walt Whitman, Ogden Mash, 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, Anatole Le Braz with Marvin Kaye (Translator)

658 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction horror short stories adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
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A collection of more than 50 short horror stories, both classic and modern. The authors include Bram Stoker, H.P.Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, Guy de Maupassant, Tennessee Williams, J.R.R.Tolkien, Isaac Asimov and Patricia Highsmith.

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

3.89

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