Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to Horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. Horror is often divided into the psychological horror and supernatural horror sub-genres. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.This book contains the following texts: - The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards; - Afterward by Edith Wharton; - The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; - The Monkeys Paw by W. W. Jacobs; - The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens; - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving; - The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft.For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
The Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
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The Lurking Fear
H. P. Lovecraft
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Under the Pyramids
H. P. Lovecraft
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The Power of Darkness: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries : The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Haunted House, Dead Souls…
Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adelbert von Chamisso, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, John Buchan, Louis Tracy, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade Falkner, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, William Archer, Daniel Defoe, John Kendrick Bangs, Cleveland Moffett, Brander Matthews, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Horace Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, Hugh Walpole, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Marryat, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Leonid Andreyev, David Lindsay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Edward Bellamy, Walter Hubbell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Leopold Kompert, Richard Marsh, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, John William Polidori, Vincent O'Sullivan, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, M. P. Shiel, E. F. Benson, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Stanley G. Weinbaum, George W. M. Reynolds, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edith Nesbit, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Thomas Beckford, Francis Marion Crawford, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Frank R. Stockton, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Ann Radcliffe, Louisa M. Alcott, Amelia B. Edwards, Leonard Kip, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Fitz-James O'Brien, Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Pedro De Alarçon, H. H. Munro (Saki), Pliny the Younger, Helena Blavatsky, Villiers l'Isle de Adam, William F. Harvey, Fiona Macleod, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando
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The Transition of Juan Romero
H. P. Lovecraft
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Dagon
H. P. Lovecraft
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Das Bild im Haus
H. P. Lovecraft
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Die Gruft
H. P. Lovecraft
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The Greatest Writers of All Time: Series 3 : Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Alexandre Dumas, Bram Stoker, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frances Burney, Émile Zola, Anthony Trollope, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anthony Trollope, Frances Burney, Émile Zola
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Der Schatten über Innsmouth
H. P. Lovecraft, Sebastian Jackel
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Stadt ohne Namen
H. P. Lovecraft
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Die Musik des Erich Zann
H. P. Lovecraft, Sebastian Jackel
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7 best short stories - Boxing
Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Robert E. Howard, Ring Lardner, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Ghost Stories
Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki (H.H. Munro), Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Russian Authors
Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Halloween
W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Christmas
Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Morality Tales
Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Thanksgiving Day
Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, O. Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis K. Ball, Edward Payson Roe, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - American Civil War
Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Thomas Nelson Page, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - World War I
Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Feminist Fiction
August Nemo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit
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7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories
George Ade, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo
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7 best short stories - Victorian Romance
William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo
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