The best horror stories
About this book
Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Premature Burial / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski -- Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard -- Cinci / Luigi Pirandello -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich -- Taboo / Geoffrey Household -- A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene -- The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The veld / Ray Bradbury -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- Pig / Roald Dahl -- Robert / Stanley Ellin -- The question / Stanley Ellin -- The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier -- Corabella / David Fletcher.
Subjects
- allegory
- american horror tales
- american literature
- berths
- cannibalism
- catalepsy
- cats
- change
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- crime
- crime fiction
- crypts
- death
- detective and mystery stories
- diners
- fiction
- first-person narrative
- gallows
- gentleman's agreements
- gothic fiction
- homicide
- horror
- horror fiction
- horror stories
- horror tales
- hyperesthesia
- juvenile fiction
- macabre
- mentally ill women
- murder
- nonlinear narrative
- phobias
- premature burial
- recluses
- self-hatred
- short stories
- short story
- taphophobia
- tradition
- unconsciousness
- unreliable narrators