The Best Horror Stories
Publisher: Mallard Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780792452508
Copyright date: 1990
Subjects: Horror - General; Short stories; Fiction - Horror; Horror; Fiction; Horror tales
Description: Over thirty chilling tales of gruesome evil—a man buried alive; a young girl dancing to her death; Jack the Ripper alive and well in modern Chicago and many more haunting terrors! --front flap
Table of contents: title: The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The premature burial / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam --; title: An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac --; title: The hand / Guy de Maupassant --; title: The withered arm / Thomas Hardy --; title: The idiots / Joseph Conrad --; title: The bird / Thomas Burke --; title: Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --; title: The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski --; title: Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard --; title: Cinci / Luigi Pirandello --; title: Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers --; title: Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich --; title: Taboo / Geoffrey Household --; title: A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene --; title: The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth --; title: Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch --; title: The veld / Ray Bradbury --; title: Evening primrose / John Collier --; title: Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg --; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --; title: The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor --Pig / Roald Dahl --; title: Robert / Stanley Ellin --; title: The question / Stanley Ellin --; title: The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith --; title: Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier --; title: Corabella / David Fletcher.