Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
By: edited by Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg.
Contributors: Asimov, Isaac, 1920-; Waugh, Charles.; Greenberg, Martin Harry.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Isaac Asimov Presents
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780825301285
Copyright date: 1983
Subjects: Horror tales.; Fiction -- 19th century.; Occult fiction.
Notes: Sequel to: Isaac Asimov presents the best science fiction of the 19th century.
Table of contents: title: The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving --; title: El verdugo / Honoré de Balzac --; title: The story of the Greek slave / Captain Marryat --; title: The iron shroud / William Mudford --; title: Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan LeFanu --; title: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The doom of the Griffiths / Mrs. Gaskell --; title: Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford --; title: Torture by hope / Villiers de L'Isle-Adam --; title: The diamond necklace / Guy de Maupassant --; title: The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling --; title: Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson --; title: Sleepyhead / Anton Chekov --; title: His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow --; title: The gravedigger's daughter / Léopold von Sacher-Masoch --; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --; title: Vengeance / Lorimer Stoddard --; title: Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin --; title: The squaw / Bram Stoker --; title: A dreadful night / Edwin L. Arnold --; title: The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram --; title: Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells --; title: The story of the Brazilian cat / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --; title: The dead smile / F. Marion Crawford --; title: A game of chess / Robert Barr.