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Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
Author: | Marvin Kaye |
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Warner Books, 1992 Macdonald & Co. Ltd, 1991 Science Fiction Book Club, 1985 Doubleday, 1985 |
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Genre: | Horror |
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This is a collection of more than 50 short horror stories, both classic and modern.
Table of Contents:
- "Introduction: In Search of Masterpieces", essay by Marvin Kaye
- "Fiends and Creatures", essay by Marvin Kaye
- "Dracula's Guest" [Dracula], short story by Bram Stoker (1914)
- "The Professor's Teddy Bear", short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Professor's Teddy-Bear) (1948)
- "Bubnoff and the Devil", short story by Ivan Turgenev (translation of 1916 story) (1975)
- "The Quest for Blank Claveringi", short story by Patricia Highsmith (1967)
- "The Erl-King", poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translation of Der Erlkönig 1782) (1979)
- "The Bottle Imp", novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
- "A Malady of Magicks", short story by Craig Shaw Gardner (1978)
- "Lan Lung", novelette by M. Lucie Chin (1980)
- "The Dragon Over Hackensack", poem by Richard L. Wexelblat (year unknown)
- "The Transformation", short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley] (1830)
- "The Faceless Thing", short story by Edward D. Hoch (1963)
- "Lovers and Other Monsters", essay by Marvin Kaye
- "The Anchor", short story by Jack Snow (1947)
- "When the Clock Strikes", short story by Tanith Lee (1980)
- "Oshidori", short story by Lafcadio Hearn (1904)
- "Carmilla" [Martin Hesselius], novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan LeFanu] (1872)
- "Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory", novelette by Orson Scott Card (variant of Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory) (1979)
- "Lenore", poem by Gottfried August Bürger (translation of Lenore 1774) (1985)
- "The Black Wedding", short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1958)
- "Hop-Frog", short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) (1849)
- "Sardonicus", novelette by Ray Russell (1961)
- "Graveyard Shift", short story by Richard Matheson (1960)
- "Wake Not the Dead", novelette by Ludwig Tieck [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck] (1823)
- "Night and Silence", short story by Maurice Level (1922)
- "Acts of God and Other Horrors", essay by Marvin Kaye
- "Flies", short story by Isaac Asimov (1953)
- "The Night Wire", short story by H. F. Arnold (1926)
- "Last Respects", short story by Dick Baldwin (1975)
- "The Pool of the Stone God", short story by A. Merritt (1923)
- "A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor", poem by Ogden Nash (1955)
- "The Tree", short story by Dylan Thomas (1955)
- "Stroke of Mercy", novelette by Parke Godwin (1981)
- "Lazarus", short story by Leonid Andreyev (translation of 1906 story) (1921)
- "The Beast Within", essay by Marvin Kaye
- "The Waxwork", short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X] (1931)
- "The Silent Couple", short story by Pierre Courtois (1826)
- "Moon-Face", short story by Jack London (1902)
- "Death in the School-Room", short story by Walt Whitman (1841)
- "The Upturned Face", short story by Stephen Crane (1900)
- "One Summer Night", short story by Ambrose Bierce (1906)
- "The Easter Egg", short story by Saki [as by H. H. Munro ] (1930)
- "The House in Goblin Wood" (non-genre), novelette by John Dickson Carr (1947)
- "The Vengeance of Nitocris", short story by Tennessee Williams (1928)
- "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew", short story by Damon Runyon (1911)
- "His Unconquerable Enemy", short story by W. C. Morrow (1889)
- "Rizpah", poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1895)
- "The Question", short story by Stanley Ellin (variant of The Question My Son Asked) (1962)
- "Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares", essay by Marvin Kaye
- "The Flayed Hand", short story by Guy de Maupassant (translation of La main d'écorché) (1875)
- "The Hospice", novelette by Robert Aickman (1975)
- "The Christmas Banquet", short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1843)
- "The Hungry House", novelette by Robert Bloch (1951)
- "The Demon of the Gibbet", poem by Fitz-James O'Brien (1881)
- "The Owl", shortfiction by Anatole Le Braz (year unknown)
- "No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince", short story by Ralph Adams Cram (1895)
- "The Music of Erich Zann", short story by H. P. Lovecraft (1922)
- "Riddles in the Dark", short story by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
- "Afterword: Is Terror a Dying Art?", essay by Marvin Kaye
- "Miscellaneous Notes (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural)", essay by Marvin Kaye
- "Selected Bibliography (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural)", essay by Marvin Kaye
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