The Wordsworth Book of 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 time immemorial, 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 your doors, draw the armchair 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 1799--1850
The Mysterious Mansion
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM 1788-1845
The Spectre of Tappington
AMBROSE BIERCE 1842-1914
The Damned Thing
MISS BRADDON
(MARY ELIZABETH MAXWELL) 1837-1915
Eveline's Visitant
A CLERGYMAN
A Ghostly Manifestation
Correspondence on A Ghostly Manifestation'
WILKIE COLLINS 1824--1889
A Terribly Strange Bed
CHARLES DICKENS 1812-187o
The Story of the Bagman's Uncle
To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt
The Signalman
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1859--1930
The Brazilian Cat
The Ring of Thoth
The Lord of Chateau 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 1810-1865
The Squire's Story
w. v. HARVEY I885--I937
The Beast with Five Fingers
R. S. HAWKER I803--I875
The Botathen Ghost
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1804-1864
Young Goodman Brown
W.H. HODGSON 1877--1918
The Gateway of the Monster
JAMES HOGG, THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD, 1770-1835
The Story of Euphemia Hewit
VIOLET HUNT 1866--I942
The Prayer
w. w. JACOBS 1863-1943
The Monkey's Paw
HENRY JAMES 1843-1916
The Jolly 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 Neighbour'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
A~er Dark in the Playing Fields
Wailing Well
Stories I Have Tried to Write
RUDYARD KIPLING 1865-1936
The Mark of the Beast
PERCEVAL LANDON
Thurnley Abbey
JOHN LANG c.I816--I864
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 Toby's Will
Dickon the Devil
The Child That Went with the Fairies
The White Cat of Drumgunniol
Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling
Sir Dominick's Bargain
Uhor de Lacy
The Vision of Tom Chuff
Stories of Lough Guir
LORD LYTTON 1814--1873
The Haunted and the Haunters
GUY DE MAUPASSANT 185O-1893
Vendetta
EDITH NESBIT I858-I924
Man-Size in Marble
HOWARD PEASE
In the Cliff Land of the Dane
EDGAR ALLAN POE 1809-1849
The Tall-Tale Heart
The Black Cat
A. i. PUSHKIN 1799--I837
The Ace of Spades
SAKI (H. H. MUNRO) 1870--1916
Laura
Sredni Vashtar
SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771-1832
The Tapestried Chamber
Wandering Willie's Tale
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 185O-1894
Markheim
Thrawn Janet
BRAM STOKER 1847--1912
Dracula ' s Guest
EDMUND LENTHAL SWIFTE
Ghost in the Tower
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1811--1863
The Story of Mary Ancel
HUGH WALPOLE 1884--1941
Tarnhelm
OSCAR WILDE 1854--19OO
The Canterville Ghost
