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Tales of Terror
| Author: | Boris Karloff |
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World Publishing Company, 1943 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
In this volume the incomparable bogey man, Boris Karloff, has taken a busman's holiday and gathered together his favorite stories for the delectation of his fans and terror enthusiasts. From hundreds of stories he has read, this leading exponent of the terrifying and macabre has selected his favorites and invites you to "surrender unconditionally to the delicious terrors of the Unknown."
Table of Contents:
- 9 - Introduction (Tales of Terror) - essay by Boris Karloff
- 17 - The Waxwork - (1931) - short story by A. M. Burrage
- 30 - Clay-Shuttered Doors - (1926) - short story by Helen R. Hull
- 50 - The Judge's House - (1891) - short story by Bram Stoker
- 70 - The Damned Thing - (1893) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
- 80 - The Tarn - (1923) - short story by Hugh Walpole
- 94 - The Furnished Room - (1904) - short story by O. Henry
- 101 - Our Feathered Friends - (1931) - short story by Philip MacDonald
- 111 - Father Macclesfield's Tale - (1907) - short story by R. H. Benson [as by Robert Hugh Benson]
- 119 - The Hound - non-genre - (1931) - short story by William Faulkner
- 133 - The Tell-Tale Heart - (1843) - short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- 139 - Amy Foster - non-genre - (1901) - novelette by Joseph Conrad
- 170 - The Beast with Five Fingers - (1919) - novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
- 198 - The Willows - (1907) - novella by Algernon Blackwood
- 249 - The Beckoning Fair One - (1911) - novella by Oliver Onions
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