Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679601287 ISBN 13: 9780679601289

Publisher: Modern Library, 1994

Synopsis

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 (“Out of the Deep")
• E.M. Forster (“The Celestial Omnibus”)
• Isak Dinesen (“The Sailor-Boys Tale”)
• H.P. Lovecraft (“The Dunwich Horror”) 
• Dorothy L. Sayers (“Suspicion”)
• Ernest Hemingway (“The Killers”)
• And more!
 
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a gooseflesh special,” Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural is a must-read for every horror fan and lover of classic literature.

About this title

About the Author

Phyllis Wagner (1916–2006) was an actress, writer, and co-founder, with Dr. Seuss, of Beginner Books. She also co-edited, with Herbert Wise, the horror anthology Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural.

From the Back Cover

ngtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen 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"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), an

From the Inside Flap

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen 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"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers").

"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," wrote the Saturday Review. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679601287
• ISBN 13: 9780679601289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1056
• Editor: Phyllis Cerf Wagner, Herbert Wise