Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)

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.

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