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The best horror stories

  • A. E. Coppard,
  • Daphne du Maurier,
  • David Fletcher,
  • Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam,
  • Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski,
  • Robert Bloch,
  • John Collier,
  • Graham Greene,
  • Ray Bradbury,
  • Edgar Allan Poe,
  • William Faulkner,
  • Guy de Maupassant,
  • Robert Silverberg,
  • Patricia Highsmith,
  • Flannery O'Connor,
  • Geoffrey Household,
  • Thomas Burke,
  • Cornell Woolrich,
  • Roald Dahl,
  • Stanley Ellin,
  • Dorothy L. Sayers,
  • Cyril M. Kornbluth,
  • Honoré de Balzac,
  • Thomas Hardy,
  • Arthur Conan Doyle,
  • Joseph Conrad,
  • John Keir Cross,
  • Bloch, Robert

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Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Premature Burial / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski -- Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard -- Cinci / Luigi Pirandello -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich -- Taboo / Geoffrey Household -- A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene -- The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The veld / Ray Bradbury -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- Pig / Roald Dahl -- Robert / Stanley Ellin -- The question / Stanley Ellin -- The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier -- Corabella / David Fletcher.

Genres

  • American Horror tales
  • American literature
  • Children's fiction
  • Classic Literature
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Fiction
  • first-person narrative
  • Gothic fiction
  • Homicide
  • Horror
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror stories
  • Horror tales
  • Hyperesthesia
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Murder
  • short stories
  • premature burial
  • catalepsy
  • Taphophobia
  • crypts
  • phobias
  • unconsciousness
  • berths
  • cats
  • short story
  • unreliable narrators
  • self-hatred
  • gallows
  • tradition
  • change
  • death
  • allegory
  • nonlinear narrative
  • gentleman's agreements
  • recluses
  • Mentally ill women
  • macabre
  • diners
  • cannibalism
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    About the authors

    • A. E. Coppard

      4 January 1878 - 13 January 1957

      2.50

      2 ratings · 79 works

    • Daphne du Maurier

      13 May 1907 - 19 April 1989

      4.05

      63 ratings · 152 works

    • David Fletcher

      0

      0 ratings · 38 works

    • Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

      1838 - 1889

      5.00

      1 ratings · 200 works

    • Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski

      1885 - 1944

      0

      0 ratings · 35 works

    • Robert Bloch

      5 April 1917 - 23 September 1994

      4.09

      22 ratings · 227 works

    • John Collier

      3.75

      4 ratings · 96 works

    • Graham Greene

      2 October 1904 - 3 April 1991

      3.48

      122 ratings · 937 works

    • Ray Bradbury

      22 August 1920 - 5 June 2012

      4.04

      790 ratings · 786 works

    • Edgar Allan Poe

      19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

      4.16

      430 ratings · 4050 works

    • William Faulkner

      25 September 1897 - 6 July 1962

      3.79

      101 ratings · 884 works

    • Guy de Maupassant

      5 Aug 1850 - 2 Mar 1893

      3.94

      79 ratings · 2616 works

    • Robert Silverberg

      born 15 January 1935

      3.78

      126 ratings · 1016 works

    • Patricia Highsmith

      19 Jan 1921 - 4 Feb 1995

      4.07

      102 ratings · 370 works

    • Flannery O'Connor

      March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964

      3.77

      43 ratings · 108 works

    • Geoffrey Household

      30 November 1900 - 4 October 1988

      3.71

      7 ratings · 54 works

    • Thomas Burke

      1887 - 1945

      4.00

      1 ratings · 174 works

    • Cornell Woolrich

      1903 - 1968

      4.00

      9 ratings · 163 works

    • Roald Dahl

      13 September 1916 - 23 November 1990

      4.04

      1481 ratings · 710 works

    • Stanley Ellin

      1916 - 1986

      5.00

      1 ratings · 73 works

    • Dorothy L. Sayers

      13 June 1893 - 17 December 1957

      3.79

      92 ratings · 402 works

    • Cyril M. Kornbluth

      2 July 1924 - 21 March 1958

      4.13

      15 ratings · 152 works

    • Honoré de Balzac

      20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850

      3.72

      64 ratings · 7375 works

    • Thomas Hardy

      2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928

      3.83

      102 ratings · 3693 works

    • Arthur Conan Doyle

      1859-05-22 - 1930-07-07

      4.12

      886 ratings · 9093 works

    • Joseph Conrad

      3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924

      3.76

      249 ratings · 3033 works

    • John Keir Cross

      19 August 1914 - 22 January 1967

      4.00

      1 ratings · 16 works

    • Bloch, Robert

      1917 - 1994

      0

      0 ratings · 1 works

    Editions

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      Mallard Press

      1990

    • Edition cover

      Ivyleaf

      1990

    • Edition cover

      Peerage Books

      1990

    • Edition cover

      Peerage Bks

      1990