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The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten - Tales of the Supernatural Strange and Bizarre - cover

The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten - Tales of the Supernatural Strange and Bizarre

Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, H. P. Lovecraft, W. B. Yeats, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, Robert W. Chambers, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Arthur Machen, W.W. Jacobs, Richard Le Gallienne, Don Fortune, Judika Illes, H. D. Everett, Sonia H. Greene

Publisher: Weiser Books

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Summary

Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more.   These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto—edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories—some of which have been forgotten over the years, like buried treasure—will thrill and chill readers to the bone.   During the dark, eerie hours, when the wind is blowing and the ghosts are roaming outside, these tales can fill a night with pleasant terror—as well as encouraging our minds to venture beyond the mundane into the realm of the fantastic.
Available since: 10/01/2016.

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