Classic Tales of Horror

Spine-tingling tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat!This chilling collection of scary stories will keep you awake for hours! Psychological horrors, disturbing dramas, and gruesome ghosts compose this compendium of confessions made in the dead of night. From vampires and a monkey paw to an unstoppable heart and haunting apparitions, anecdotes of supernatural terror will have you turning pages long past the witching hour. Allow famous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Henry James, Washington Irving, and more to prey upon your emotions and peace of mind at slumber parties and camping trips, or anytime you want to end the night with a delightful fright! Contents:The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe (1843)Dracula’s Guest, Bram Stoker (1914)The Devil and Tom Walker, Washington Irving (1824)An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce (1891)Kerfol, Edith Wharton (1916)The Elixir of Life, Honoré de Balzac (1830)The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe (1839)The Case of Lady Sannox, Arthur Conan Doyle (1893)Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (1898)The Willows, Algernon Blackwood (1907)The Shunned House, H. P. Lovecraft (1924)The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe (1842)The Vampyre, John William Polidori (1819)One Summer Night, Ambrose Bierce (1893)For the Blood Is the Life, F. Marion Crawford (1905)Count Magnus, M. R. James (1904)The Body-Snatcher, Robert Louis Stevenson (1881)Sredni Vashtar, Saki (1911)The Horla, Guy de Maupassant (1887)The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)The Man Who Found Out, Algernon Blackwood (1912)La Grande Bretèche, Honoré de Balzac (1831)The Terror of Blue John Gap, Arthur Conan Doyle (1910)The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (1915)The Outsider, H. P. Lovecraft (1926)The Monkey’s Paw, W. W. Jacobs (1902)Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book, M. R. James (1894)Present at a Hanging, Ambrose Bierce (1888)The Room in the Tower, E. F. Benson (1912)The Trial for Murder, Charles Dickens (1865)William Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe (1839)Afterward, Edith Wharton (1910)The Succubus, Honoré de Balzac (1833)The Damned Thing, Ambrose Bierce (1894)The Tree, H. P. Lovecraft (1921)The Empty House, Algernon Blackwood (1906)The Bottle Imp, Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)The Screaming Skull, F. Marion Crawford (1908)The Judge’s House, Bram Stoker (1891)The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe (1843)The Open Window, Saki (1914)Rappaccini’s Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844)Sir Edmund Orme, Henry James (1891)A Ghost, Guy de Maupassant (1883)In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka (1919)The Signal-Man, Charles Dickens (1866)Lost Hearts, M. R. James (1904)An Inhabitant of Carcosa, Ambrose Bierce (1887)The Damned, Algernon Blackwood (1914)The Japanned Box, Arthur Conan Doyle (1899)The Tomb, H. P. Lovecraft (1922)The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe (1846)