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. Read more