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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Horror - Volume 1 - cover

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Horror - Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, E.T.A. Hoffmann, H.P. Lovecraft, W. Jacobs, August Nemo

Publisher: Tacet Books

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Summary

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Horror.
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This book contains:

- Edgar Allan Poe:
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Black Cat
- H. P. Lovecraft:
- The Call of Cthulhu
- The Outsider
- Pickman's Model
- The Statement of Randolph Carter
- The Colour out of Space
- The Dunwich Horror
- The Music of Erich Zann
- W. W. Jacobs:
- The Monkey's Paw
- A Golden Venture
- A Love-Knot
- An Adulteration Act
- Back to Back
- Establishing Relations
- Captain Rogers
- E.T.A. Hoffmann:
- The Golden Pot
- The Sandman
- Councillor Krespela
- Automata
- The Elementary Spirit
- The Jesuits' Church in G--
- The Story of the Hard Nut
- Robert Louis Stevenson:
- The Waif Woman
- The Bottle Imp
- Thrawn Janet
- Markheim
- The Body Snatcher
- Olalla
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Available since: 04/04/2020.

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