| Edition |
Guild America Books edition. |
| Description |
573 pages : hard cover ; 22 cm |
| Note |
companion piece to Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural. |
| Contents |
Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares: The Others--Tap Dancing--The Hungry Stones--The Southwest Chamber--The Lost Room--The Ghost to his Ladye Love--The Happy Children--Darby O'Gill and the Good People--Keeping his promise--A Day in the Life of Comrade Lenin--The Throwing Suit--The Beast Within: Fidel Bassin--Unsigned Original--The empty zoo-Beyond sleep--Finnegan's Wake--Bianca's Hands--The Iron Man--Sagittarius--Wolf--An illusion in Red and White--Acts of God and Other Horrors: Man Overboard--The people of the pit--In the Avu Observatory--In the valley of the Shades--The thing in the hall--The inchcape roack--Mr. Wilde's second chace--The dreams in the Witch-House--The little man on the subway--The Poems--Vision Quest--Contes Cruelles: The man in the bottle--A diagnosos of death--Remember me--The pardon--The one-thousand dozenCarmanda--The spirit of hospitality--The cripple--The squaw--Pictures--The necklace--The necklace: the sequel--Fieds and Creatures: Midnight--Ms. Lipshutz and the goblin--Amina--Simpson's lesser sphynx--Dress of white silk--The palace of the mountain ogre--Snow white waking--The little witch of Elm Street--The brown man's servant--Poppa Bear--In letters of Fire--Green Magic |
| Summary |
Tales and poems meant to terrify reader with the cosmic fear of the unknown, not meant to horrify with blood and gore. Written by both classic and modern writers including John Jakes, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Guy de Maupassant, Isaac Asimov, and others. |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Paranormal fiction.
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Horror tales.
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| Genre/Form |
Short Stories.
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| Added Author |
Kaye, Marvin, editor.
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| ISBN |
1568650434 |
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