The big book of horror
Subtitle: 21 famously fearsome tales
By: adaptation and abridgement by Alissa Heyman ; illustrated by Pedro Rodríguez.
Contributors: Rodríguez, Pedro, 1973- ill.
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781402738609
Subjects: Horror tales; Horror stories; Short stories
Description: Presents abridged and adapted versions of twenty-one horror stories, including Charles Dickens' "The Signalman" and Edgar Allan Poe's the "Black Cat."
Table of contents: title: The Signalman -- Charles Dickens; title: Green eyes -- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer; title: The Vampire -- John William Polidori; title: The Murders in the rue morgue -- Edgar Allen Poe; title: The Bodysnatcher -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The Hand -- Guy de Maupassant; title: The Fall the of the House of Usher -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: A Torture by Hope -- Villiers de Isle Adam; title: He? -- Guy de Maupassant; title: Pit and the pendulum -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: The Outsider -- H.P. Lovecraft; title: Morella -- Edgar Allen Poe; title: House of the nightmare -- Edward Lucas White; title: Magnetism -- Guy de Maupassant; title: Facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: Sir Dominick's bargain -- Sheridan Le Fanu; title: Green monster -- Gerard de Nerval; title: Tropical horror -- William Hope Hodgson; title: Black cat -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: Werewolf -- Eugene Field; title: House in Camden Hill