Great Horror Stories - Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others

Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Kyōka Izumi

Dover Publications

2008

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780486461434

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. — H.P. Lovecraft |...|
Fans of horror and the supernatural will savor the dark delicacies in this spine-tingling anthology of the genre's very best.
Featuring an international gallery of the world's great horror writers, this collection celebrates one of literature's most popular forms of fiction with 14 masterfully crafted tales of terror, including:
• Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest
• Edgar Allan Poe's The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
• H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space
• Arthur Machen's The White People
• Izumi Kyoka's A Tale of Three Who Were Blind
• Algernon Blackwood's The Willows
• Ambrose Bierce's The Damned Thing
...and 7 more chilling classics. A truly macabre must-have! |...| Featuring an international rogues' gallery of authors, this spine-tingling anthology celebrates one of the most popular and enduring literary traditions. Fourteen timeless tales of terror include chilling classics from Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, Izumi Kyoka, Algernon Blackwood, and more... Dover Original.

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5 (Perfeito)

Best horror short stories collection

This collection is very good indeed! If you're starting to read old ghost and horror short stories, that's the best beginning. Here you can find the best writers from the past with some very exciting tales. I didn't read all of them, but there are some that I would like to recommend, they are:

- The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling: This is a very creep story in certain moments. The tale is held in India and shows the story of a man who played with the local religion and got a terrible curse.

- The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs: One of the most creeping tales ever existed. The tale is about a queer relic capable to delivery 3 wishes to the owner, however it carries a very powerful and evil spell on it.

- The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce: A short action horror tale. It talks about an unknown deadly creature which some men encountered in a forest.

- The White People by Arthur Machen: Lovecraft said it was his second favorite horror tale (If I'm not wrong, the The Willows by Algernon Blackwood is his favorite and it's also here in this collection). The tale talks about a book written by a young girls who was introduced to the black magic by her nurse and she describes a lot of queer places, tales and spells that she's known during her youth.

- The Colour Out of Space by Lovecraft: He's my favorite writer, nevertheless is my favorite story. But Lovecraft has a lot of great stories, and this is one of his great ones. Lovecraft fills this tale with his cosmic horror, introducing a strange alien force which lives in a queer forest next to a small old village.

Besides these, the book also include:

'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki (H. H. Munro)
'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood
'A Tale of Three Who Were Blind' by Izumi Kyoka
'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker
'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' by Poe,
'The Beast With Five Fingers' by W. F. Harvey,
'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson,
'The Derelict' by William Hope Hodgson
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' by M. R. James