The Penguin Book of Horror Stories by L.P. Hartley, William Hope Hodgson, Dawn Muscillo, E.F. Benson, Dorothy K. Haynes, Various, John Metcalfe, J.A. Cuddon, A.M. Burrage, M.R. James, Muriel Spark, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Graves, Honoré de Balzac, Patricia Highsmith, James Hogg, Augustus Muir, Carl Stephenson, Henry James, Evelyn Waugh, D.K. Broster, J.N. Allan, Geoffrey Household, William Fryer Harvey, John Russell, Will F. Jenkins, Roald Dahl, Edgar Allan Poe, Gerald Kersh, Ambrose Bierce, Perceval London, John Lennon, Vilas Sarang, Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, Émile Zola, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Monica Dickens, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, Lord Dunsany, Yvor Winters

The Penguin Book of Horror Stories

L.P. Hartley, William Hope Hodgson, Dawn Muscillo, E.F. Benson, Dorothy K. Haynes, Various, John Metcalfe, J.A. Cuddon, A.M. Burrage, M.R. James, Muriel Spark, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Graves, Honoré de Balzac, Patricia Highsmith, James Hogg, Augustus Muir, Carl Stephenson, Henry James, Evelyn Waugh, D.K. Broster, J.N. Allan, Geoffrey Household, William Fryer Harvey, John Russell, Will F. Jenkins, Roald Dahl, Edgar Allan Poe, Gerald Kersh, Ambrose Bierce, Perceval London, John Lennon, Vilas Sarang, Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, Émile Zola, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Monica Dickens, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, Lord Dunsany, Yvor Winters

607 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark slow-paced

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Here are the depths of fear and darkness, the furthest limits of agony in mind and body...Born in the eighteenth century, the horror story produced a literature of terror filled with werewolves and vampires, and which borrowed many elements from i...

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