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The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (30 short stories) - cover

The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (30 short stories)

Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, James Hogg, Edith Nesbit, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Hope Hodgson, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, Richard Marsh, Joseph Le Fanu, Mary Shelley, John Buchan, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Algernon Blackwood, John Meade Falkner, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, George Barr McCutcheon, Hume Nisbet, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Robert William Chambers, Jan Neruda, James Malcom Rymer, Thomas Hardy, George Sylvester Viereck

Publisher: Oregan Publishing

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Summary

The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce
A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood
The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown
The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan
No-man's-land - John Buchan
The Grove of Ashtaroth - John Buchan
The Watcher by the Threshold - John Buchan
The King in Yellow - Robert William Chambers
The Signal-Man - Charles Dickens
Trilby - George du Maurier
The Lost Stradivarius - John Meade Falkner
Curious, If True: Strange Tales - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman-
The Three Strangers - Thomas Hardy
The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson
The Ghost Pirates - William Hope Hodgson
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
Ghost Stories of Chapelizod - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Child That Went With The Fairies - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Familiar - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Vision Of Tom Chuff - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
At the Mountains of Madness - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
The Inmost Light - Arthur Machen
The Novel of the White Powder - Arthur Machen
The Terror - Arthur Machen
The Beetle - Richard Marsh
The Vampire - Jan Neruda
In the Dark - Edith Nesbit
The Power of Darkness - Edith Nesbit
The Demon Spell - Hume Nisbet
The Vampire Maid - Hume Nisbet
The Fall of the House of Usher - E.A. Poe
The Masque of the Red Death - E.A. Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum - E.A. Poe
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade - Edgar Allan Poe
Varney the Vampire - James Malcom Rymer
Available since: 02/25/2018.

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