The Wordsworth Book Of Horror Stories (Special Editions)

...it is an universal phenomenon of our nature that the mournful, the fearful, even the horrible, allures with irresistible enchantment.' Chaucer Burr, Memoir, 1850. The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories is a superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre, many are classics while others are lesser -known gems unearthed from this vintage era of the supernatural. From time immemorial, man the world over has drawn upon the worst fears of his conscious and subconscious mind to furnish legends of terrror. In this volume authors such as M.R.James, Le Fanu, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Bierce, Balzac, Gaskell, and many others invite you to close the curtains, lock the doors, draw the armchair closer to the blazing fire and settle down to a spine-chilling read.

• Author
• Alice Askew, Honoré de Balzac, John Lang, D.H. Lawrence, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W.W. Jacobs, Henry James, M.R. James, Guy de Maupassant, E. Nesbit, Richard Harris Barham, Edgar Allan Poe, A.M. Pushkin, Saki, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Edmund Lenthal Swifte, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hugh Walpole, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Perceval Landon, Howard Pease

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 1149

• Publisher
• Wordsworth Editions

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781840220568

• Genres
• horror, fiction, anthologies, classics, ghosts

• Release date
• 2005