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WHAT WAS IT? THE BIG BOOK OF SPOOKY TALES – 55+ Occult & Supernatural Thrillers (Horror Classics Anthology) : Number 13, The Deserted House, The Man with the Pale Eyes, The Oblong Box, The Birth-Mark, A Terribly Strange Bed, The Torture by Hope, The Mysterious Card and many more

This carefully crafted ebook: "WHAT WAS IT? THE BIG BOOK OF SPOOKY TALES – 55+ Occult & Supernatural Thrillers (Horror Classics Anthology)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Get ready to be spooked and thrilled by the greatest master story-tellers. A must read for spook-lovers!

Ghost Stories:

Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Horla (Guy de Maupassant)

To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger) . . .

The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson)

The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling)

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe)

The Damned Thing (Ambrose Bierce) . . .

The Deserted House (E. T. A. Hoffmann)

The Withered Arm (Thomas Hardy)

The House and the Brain (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

The Roll-Call of the Reef (A. T. Quiller-Couch)

The Open Door (Mrs. Margaret Oliphant) . . .

Paranormal Psychic Stories:

When the World Was Young (Jack London)

Joseph—A Story (Katherine Rickford)

Ligeia(Edgar Allan Poe)

A Ghost (Lafcadio Hearn)

The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce)

Photographing Invisible Beings (William T. Stead)

The Sin-Eater (Fiona Macleod) . . .

Suspense Stories:

The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Oblong Box (Edgar Allan Poe)

A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins)

The Torture by Hope (Villiers de l'Isle Adam)

The Mysterious Card (Cleveland Moffett) . . .

Humorous Paranormal Stories:

The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange (A. Conan Doyle)

Mr. Bloke's Item (Mark Twain)

The Man Who Went Too Far (E. F. Benson)

The Man With The Pale Eyes (Guy de Maupassant) . . .


Authors:

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wilkie Collins
  • Villiers Adam
  • C. Moffett
  • William Archer
  • F. Marryat
  • Fitz-James O'Brien
  • Guy de Maupassant
  • R. L. Stevenson
  • W. F. Harvey
  • M. R. James
  • Katherine Rickford
  • Pliny the Younger
  • Théopile Gautier
  • Margaret Oliphant
  • Lafcadio Hearn
  • C. B. Fernando
  • Brander Matthews
  • Joseph L. French

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 906 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Horror
  • Classic horror

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