Title: The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
First published: December 1999
Description: The Monk of horror, or The Conclave of corpses, by Anonymous
The Astrologer's prediction, or The Maniac's fate, by Anonymous
The expedition to Hell, by James Hogg
Mateo Falcone, by Prosper Merimee
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W), by Edgar Allan Poe
Le Grande Breteche, by Honore de Balzac
The romance of certain old clothes, by Henry James
Who knows?, by Guy de Maupassant
The body snatcher, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The death of Olivier Becaille, by Emile Zola
The boarded window, by Ambrose Bierce
Lost hearts, by M.R. James
The sea-raiders, by H.G. Wells
The derelict, by William Hope Hodgson
Thurnley Abbey, by Perceval Landon
The fourth man, by John Russell
In the penal colony, by Franz Kafka
The waxwork, by A.M. Burrage
Mrs. Amworth, by E.F. Benson
The reptile, by Augustus Muir
Mr. Meldrum's Mania, by John Metcalfe
The beast with five fingers, by William Fryer Harvey
Dry September, by William Faulkner
Couching at the door, by D.K. Broster
The two bottles of relish, by Lord Dunsany
The man who liked Dickens, by Evelyn Waugh
Taboo, by Geoffrey Household
The thought, by L.P. Hartley
Comrade death, by Gerald Kersh
Leningen versus the ants, by Carl Stephenson
The brink of darkness, by Yvor Winters
Activity time, by Monica Dickens
Earth to Earth, by Robert Graves
The dwarf, by Ray Bradbury
The Portabello Road, by Muriel Spark
No flies on Frank, by John Lennon
Sister Coxall's revenge, by Dawn Muscillo
Thou shalt not suffer a witch ..., by Dorothy K. Haynes
The terrapin, by Patricia Highsmith
[Man from the south](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504421W), by Roald Dahl
Uneasy home-coming, by Will F. Jenkins
The Aquarist, by J.N. Allan
An interview with M. Chakko, by Vilas Sarang
Subjects: Horror tales, Short stories, Cadillacs, Mesmerism, Fiction, suspense, horror, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Places: Jamaica
People: Ernest Valdemar, Carlos