Masters of Horror, Suspense and the Supernatural: 100 Stories Horror Book Review

Masters of horror


This carefully researched anthology brings together some of the recognized masterpieces in the literature of horror and suspense from around the world. At the same time especial attention has been given to some rarities (like a macabre tale from Giacomo Casanova or a ghost story by Heinrich Heine, among others) and lesser known pieces that deserve a wider readership, including some especially translated for this edition (stories by the Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga, the Nicaraguan Ruben Dario, and the Argentine Noemi Sutera, among others).

Martin Monreal is a writer, translator and illustrator. He studied Foreign Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, and attended Pratt Institute in New York. He has published poetry and short stories in Spanish, and is the editor of TWILIGHT CREATURES: 40 Stories of Werewolves, Vampires and other Unspeakable Beings, and THE COMPLETE DRACULA.



CONTENTS (see the free preview for complete table of contents)

Ambrose Bierce   The Death of Halpin Frayser

Francis Marion Crawford   The upper berth

ETA Hoffmann The Sandman

MR James   Casting the Runes

Arthur Machen   The Great God Pan

Jack London   Batard

Mark Twain   Piteous Relics at Chamonix

Virginia Woolf   A Haunted House

Apuleius   Panthia and Meroe

Algernon Blackwood   The Willows

Anton Chekhov   Overdoing it

Ruben Dario The Larva

Giacomo Casanova A Practical Joke

Théophile Gautier   The Mummy’s Foot

The Hunter Hackelnberg: A German Folktale

Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper

Daniel Defoe   The Apparition of Mrs Veal

H Rider Haggard   Barbara Who Came Back

Julian Hawthorne   Ken’s Mystery

The Prince and the Badger A Japanese Folktale

Leo Tolstoy   How Much Land Does a Man Need

Max Beerbohm   Enoch Soames

Honoré de Balzac   The elixir of life

Addington Bruce   The Mysterious Mr Home

Edward Bulwer-Lytton   The Haunted and the Haunters

Joseph Conrad The Shadow-Line

GK Chesterton – How I Found the Superman

Wilkie Collins - A Terribly Strange Bed

Arthur Conan Doyle   The Captain of the “Pole-Star”

Lord Dunsany   The Exiles Club

Charles B Cory   An Aztec Mummy

The Story of Ming-Y: A Chinese Folktale

Ralph Adams Cram   The Dead Valley

Stephen Crane   The Upturned Face

Walter De la Mare   Seaton’s Aunt

Charles Dickens   The Signal-Man

Gustave Flaubert   The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller

Erckmann-Chatrian   The Man-Wolf

Nukunguasik: An Eskimo Folktale

George Frazer   Witches?

Elizabeth Gaskell   Old Nurse’ Story

Nikolay Gogol St Johns’ Eve

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Wedding Knell

Heinrich Heine   The Argument

O Henry   The Door of Unrest

Victor Hugo - The Struggle

Washigton Irving   The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

W W Jacobs   The Monkey’s Paw

Henry James The Jolly Corner

James Joyce   The Sisters

Mary H Kingsley   Apparitions (from Travels in West Africa)

Le Fanu Le Fanu   Schalken the Painter

Noemí Sutera   Summer 1972

Margaret Oliphant - Open Door

Edgard Allan Poe   Morella

Saki Sredni Vashtar

Horacio Quiroga Hiptalmic mark

R L Stevenson The Merry Men

Glam (from Grettir’s Saga)

Procopius The Secret History of the Court of Justinian

Guy de Maupassant   The Inn

Herman Melville   Hood’s Isle

S Mukerji A Very Strange Incident

Margaret Murray   A Recipe for Flying

Fitz-James O’Brien The Lost Room

Elliott O’Donnell   An Archeological Finding

Howard Pease   The Tale of Three Antiquaries

Alexander Pushkin   The Queen of Spades

A Roman Ghost

The Dead Mother:  A Russian Folktale

Baring-Gould   A Galician Were-Wolf

Walter Scott Wandering Willie’s Tale

The Werewolf at Merionethshire
HG Wells   The plattner story

Edith Wharton   Afterward

Yeats   Village ghosts

Bram Stoker   Dracula’s Guest

Thackeray   The Notch on the Axe

Turgenev   Father Alexeyi’s Story

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