Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
When this longtime Modern Library favorite — filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense — was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers").
"There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction," wrote the Saturday Review. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.
- Author
- Phyllis Fraser, Herbert A. Wise, John Collier, Charles Collins, Wilkie Collins, Richard Connell, A.E. Coppard, F. Marion Crawford, Walter de la Mare, Charles Dickens, Karen Blixen, William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Robert Smythe Hichens, Geoffrey Household, W.W. Jacobs, Henry James, M.R. James, Conrad Aiken, Rudyard Kipling, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Guy de Maupassant, Richard Barham Middleton, Fitz-James O'Brien, Oliver Onions, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Arlen, Dorothy L. Sayers, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Edward Lucas White, Alexander Woollcott, Honoré de Balzac, E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Saki, Phyllis Cerf, Carl Stephenson
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 1056
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780679601289
- Genres
- horror, fiction, anthologies, gothic, classics, fantasy, supernatural, ghosts
- Release date
- 1994
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