Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

First published in 1944, here are fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense from some of the most renowned authors and horror writers in literary history, with an introduction and notes from Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise. “There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction.”—The Saturday Review This spine-chilling anthology collects stories from such distinguished spell weavers like: • Edgar Allan Poe (“The Black Cat”) • Wilkie Collins (“A Terribly Strange Bed”) • Henry James (“Sir Edmund Orme”) • Guy de Maupassant (“Was It a Dream?”) • O. Henry (“The Furnished Room”) • Rudyard Kipling (“ ‘They’ ”) • H. G. Wells (“Pollock and the Porroh Man”) As well as tales from other masters of literature, including: • Algernon Blackwood (“Ancient Sorceries”) • Walter de la Mare