CREEPY CLASSICS : Hair-Raising Horror from the Masters of the Macabre

Hill, Mary (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0679866922 / ISBN 13: 9780679866923

Published by Random House, New York, NY, 1994

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Text/NEW & Bright w/remainder mark to lower text edge. Softcover/Fine. Collection 11 stories, poems & excerpts to tingle young spines from great writers. Glossary, helpful, to rear as some selections date to the 19th century. Selections, w/unsettling illustrations are : 1, The Monkey's Paw (W.W. Jacobs); 2, Gabriel-Ernest (Saki); 3, The Cremation of Sam McGee (Robert W. Service); 4, The Dead Girl (Guy de Maupassant); 5, Lost Hearts (M.R. James); 6, Recipe for Witches' Brew (Shakespeare); 7, Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker); 8, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Edgar Allan Poe); 9, Alone (Edgar Allen Poe); 10, The Brazilian Cat (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle); and, 11, Frankenstein Creates a Monster (Mary Shelley). Fine copy despite remainder mark.

Seller Inventory # 020227

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CREEPY CLASSICS : Hair-Raising Horror from the Masters of the Macabre
• Publisher: Random House, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679866922
• ISBN 13: 9780679866923
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Dominick R. Domingo (Illustrator)
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthology

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Synopsis

Illus. in black-and-white. A haunting compilation of the scariest horror that literature has to offer--classic short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels by Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Sir Authur Conan Doyle and 17 other masters of the macabre. Accompanied by bone-chilling illustrations, each entry is introduced with a paragraph about the author and a brief description of the work.  

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ack-and-white. A haunting compilation of the scariest horror that literature has to offer--classic short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels by Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Sir Authur Conan Doyle and 17 other masters of the macabre. Accompanied by bone-chilling illustrations, each entry is introduced with a paragraph about the author and a brief description of the work.