Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
By: compiled by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, and Martin H. Greenberg ; with an introduction by Stephen King.
Contributors: Pronzini, Bill.; Malzberg, Barry N.; Greenberg, Martin Harry.
Edition: printing (2)
Publisher: Quill
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9780688109639
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; Horror tales, English.; Occult fiction.
Description: A spellbinding collection of forty-one of the genre's finest—and most chilling—tales, here is the definitive, the reliable, the indispensable volume of horror and the beyond, compiled by three of the field's top contributors and authorities and introduced by the current undisputed master of the supernatural, Stephen King.
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Notes: Reprint. Originally published: The Arbor House treasury of horror and the supernatural. New York : Arbor House, c1981.
Table of contents: title: Hop frog / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: Rappaccini's daugher / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: Squire Toby's will / J. Sheridan Le Fanu --; title: The squaw / Bram Stoker --; title: The jolly corner / Henry James --; title: "Man overboard!" / Winston Churchill --; title: The hand / Theodore Dreiser --; title: The valley of the spiders / H.G. Wells --; title: The middle toe of the right foot / Ambrose Bierce --; title: Pickman's model / H.P. Lovecraft --; title: Yours truly, Jack the ripper / Robert Bloch --; title: The screaming laugh / Cornell Woolrich --; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --; title: Bianca's hands / Theodore Sturgeon --; title: The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Leiber --; title: Shut a final door / Truman Capote --; title: Come and go mad / Fredric Brown --; title: The scarlet king / Evan Hunter --; title: Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner --; title: Sardonicus / Ray Russell --; title: A teacher's rewards / Robert Phillips --; title: The roaches / Thomas M. Disch --; title: The jam / Henry Slesar --; title: Black wind / Bill Pronzini --; title: The road to Mictlantecutli / Adobe James --; title: Passengers / Robert Silverberg --; title: The explosives expert / John Lutz --; title: Call first / Ramsey Campbell --; title: The fly / Arthur Porges --; title: Namesake / Elizabeth Morton --; title: Camps / Jack Dann --; title: You know Willie / Theodore R. Cogswell --; title: The mindworm / C.M. Kornbluth --; title: Warm / Robert Scheckley --; title: Transfer / Barry N. Malzberg --; title: The doll / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant --; title: Mass without voices / Arthur L. Samuels --; title: The oblong room / Edward D. Hoch --; title: The party / William F. Nolan --; title: The crate / Stephen King.