The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
J.A. Cuddon, James Hogg, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, H.G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, A.M. Burrage, E.F. Benson, Augustus Muir, Prosper Mérimée, John Metcalfe, William Faulkner, D.K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L.P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Honoré de Balzac, Will F. Jenkins, J.N. Allan, Vilas Sarang, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Elizabeth McNally, William Fryer Harvey
3.50 · 2 ratings · Published: 27 Mar 1984
Born in the eighteenth century, the horror story produced a literature of terror filled with werewolves and vampires, and which borrowed many elements from its sister genre, the ghost story.
Many famous writers were tempted by it, including Maupassant,Poe, Gautier, Conan Doyle, L.P. Hartley and Ray Bradbury. In this excellent anthology Charles Cuddon has selected the best stories of all, spanning the whole period.
Cover illustration: Steve Crisp.
- horror 3
- classics 3
- gothic 3
- postmodernism 3
- dark 2
- supernatural 2
- dark fantasy 2
- paranormal 2
- vampires 1
- literary fiction 1
- monsters/creatures 1
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- anthology 3
- audiobook 2
- adult fiction 1