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The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time

by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Machen, H.G. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Algernon Blackwood, W.W. Jacobs, M.R. James, Oliver Onions, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 2002 · 400 pages

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The stories that comprise this collection will surprise the reader even after numerous readings. They reflect innermost fears and head for spaces where reality is blurred by imagination, where insanity and madness are shrouded in mystery and where humanity is haunted by repressed passion and obsession.

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Genre
horrorghostfantasy
Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages
Form
short stories

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