450 pp. (xii) Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Simon Marsden. This anthology contains: The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers; Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White; The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith; The Hog by William Hope Hodgson; The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen; The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers; The Foot of the Mummy by Theophile Gautier; The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce; The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford; The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman; The Dead Valley by Ralph Adams Cram; The Signalman by Charles Dickens; The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer Lytton; The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Horla by Guy de Maupassant; The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe; Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb; The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling; Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson; Mrs Lunt by Hugh Walpole; Count Magnus by M. R. James; and Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft; followed by Afterword: Lovecraft and the Literature of Cosmic Fear. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

THE WORLD'S GREATEST HORROR STORIES

Publisher

Magpie Books, London

Publication Date

2004

Language

English

ISBN 10

1841198552

ISBN 13

9781841198552

Binding

Soft cover

Illustrator

Simon Marsden;

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good+

Book Type

Book

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Horror

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Over twenty classic tales of the supernatural from the imaginations of Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Robert W Chambers, M.R. James, and many more.

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