Other editions of book Great Tales of Terror And the Supernatural

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers"). "There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction," wrote the Saturday Review. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.

Edited with Introduction by Phyllis Fraser and Herbert A. Wise; Stories: La Grande Breteche, by Honore de Balzac; The Black Cat, & The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe; A Terribly Strange Bed, by Wilkie Collins; The Boarded Window, by Ambrose Bierce; The Three Strangers, by Thomas Hardy; The Interruption, & The Monkey's Paw, by WW Jacobs; Pollock and the Porroh Man, & The Sea Raiders, by HG Wells; Sredni Vashtar, & The Open Window, by Saki; Moonlight Sonata, by Alexander Woollcott; Silent Snow, Secret Snow; by Conrad Aiken; Suspicion, by Dorothy L Sayers; The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell; Leiningen Versus the Ants, by Carl Stephenson; The Gentleman from America, by Michael Arlen; A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner; The Killers, by Ernest Hemingway; Back for Christmas, by John Collier; Taboo, by Geoffrey Household; The Haunters and the Haunted: or, The House and the Brain, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Trial for Murder, by Charles Dickens; Green Tea, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien; Sir Edmund Orme, by Henry James; The Horla, or Modern Ghosts, & Was it a Dream? by Guy de Maupassant; The Screaming Skull, by F Marion Crawford; The Furnished Room, by O Henry; Casting the Runes, & Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, by MR James; Afterward, by Edith Wharton; The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen; How Love Came to Professor Guildea, by Robert Hichens; The Return of Imray, & "They" by Rudyard Kipling; Lukundoo, by Edward Lucas White; Caterpillars, & Mrs. Amworth, by E. F. Benson; Ancient Sorceries, & Confession, by Algernon Blackwood; The Beckoning Fair One, by Oliver Onions; Out of the Deep, by Walter de la Mare; Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, by A. E. Coppard; The Celestial Omnibus, by E. M. Forster; The Ghost Ship, by Richard Middleton; The Sailor-Boy's Tale, by Isak Dinesen; The Rats in the Walls, & The Dunwich Horror, by H. P. Lovecraft.

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers"). "There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction," wrote the Saturday Review. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.