In this volume authors such as M.R. lames, Le Fanu, Henry lames, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Bierce, Balzac, Gaskell, Scott and many others invite you to close the curtains, lock all your doors, draw your armchair a little closer to the blazing fire and settle down to a spine-chilling read.

The Wordswo'rth Book o[ Horror stories is a superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre, many are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of the supernatural.

From the beginning of time, man the world over has drawn upon the worst fears of his conscious and subconscious mind to furnish legends of terror. In this volume authors such as M.R. lames, Le Fanu, Henry lames, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Bierce, Balzac, Gaskell, Scott and many others invite you to close the curtains, lock all your doors, draw your armchair a little closer to the blazing fire and settle down to a spine-chilling read.

A. AND C. ASKEW

Aylmer Vance and the Vampire

HONORE DE BALZAC x799-I85O

The Mysterious Mansion

RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM I788--t845

The Spectre of Tappington

AMBROSE BIERCE 1842-19i4

The Damned Thing

MISS BRADDON

(MARY ELIZABETH MAXWELL) 1837-19I5

Eveline ' s Visitant

A CLERGYMAN

A Ghostly Manifestation

Correspondence on A Ghostly Manifestation'

WILKIE COLLINS I824-I889

A Terribly Strange Bed

CHARLES DICKENS I812--I870

The Story of the Bagman's Uncle

To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt

The Signalman

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I859-193o

The Brazilian Cat

The Ring of Thoth

The Lord of Chitteau Noir

The New Catacomb

The Case of Lady Sannox

The Brown Hand

The Horror of the Heights

The Terror of the Blue John Gap

The Captain of the Polestar

How It Happened

Playing with Fire

The Leather Funnel

Lot No. 249

The Los Amigos Fiasco

The Nightmare Room

AMELIA B. EDWARDS

(AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD)1831--1892

The Phantom Coach

ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL i8io-i865

The Squire's Story

w. F. HARVEY I885--I937

The Beast with Five Fingers

a. s. HAWKER I803--I875

The Botathen Ghost

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1804--1864

W.H. HODSON 1877--1918

The Gateway of the Monster

JAMES HOGG, THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD, 1770-1835

The Story of Euphemia Hew#

VIOLET HUNT 1866-1942

The Prayer

W.W. JACOBS I863--I943

The Monkey's Paw

HENRY JAMES I843-r916

The olly Corner

M. R JAMES 1862-1936

A School Story

Canon Alberic's Scrapbook

Lost Hearts

The Mezzotint

The Ash Tree

Number 13

Count Magnus

Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

The Rose Garden

The Tractate Middoth

Casting the Runes

The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

Martin's Close

Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance

The Residence at Whitminster

The Diary of Mr Poynter

An Episode of Cathedral History

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance

Two Doctors

The Haunted Dolls' House

The Uncommon Prayer-Book

A Neigbbour's Landmark

A View from a Hill

A Warning to the Curious

An Evening's Entertainment

There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard

Rats

After Dark in the Playing Fields

Wailing Well

Stories I Have Tried to Write

RUDYARD KIPLING i865-i936

The Mark of the Beast

PERCEVAL LANDON

Thurnley Abbey

JOHN LANG c. 1816-1864

Fisher's Ghost

D. H. LAWRENCE 1885-1930

The Rocking-Horse Winner

JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU 1814-1873

An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand

Green Tea

Madam Crowl' s Ghost

Squire Yoby's Will

Dickon the Devil

The Child That Went with the Fairies

The White Cat of Drumgunniol

Ghost Stories of Chapdizod

Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling

Sir Dominick's Bargain

Ultor de Lacy

The Vision of Tom Churl

Stories of Lough Guir

LORD LYTTON 1814--1873

The Haunted and the Haunters

GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1850--1893

Vendetta

EDITH NESBIT I858--I924

Man-Size in Marble

HOWARD PEASE

In the Cliff Land of the Dane

EDGAR ALLAN POE i8o9-I849

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Black Cat

A. M. PUSHKIN I799--I837

The Ace of Spades

SAKI (H. H. MUNRO) I870--X916

Laura

Sredni Vashtar

SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771-1832

The Tapestried Chamber

Wandering Willie's Tale

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I850--I894

Markheim

Thrawn Janet

BRAM STOKER i847-i912

Dracula ' s Guest

EDMUND LENTHAL SWIFTE

Ghost in the Tower

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1811-1863

The Story of Mary Ancel

HUGH WALPOLE 1884--194I

Tarnhelm

OSCAR WILDE 1854--1900

The Canterville Ghost