Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

First published in 1944, here are fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense from some of the most renowned authors and horror writers in literary history, with an introduction and notes from Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.
 
“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.”—The Saturday Review
 
This spine-chilling anthology collects stories from such distinguished spell weavers like:
 
• Edgar Allan 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’ ”)
• H. G. Wells (“Pollock and the Porroh Man”)
 
As well as tales from other masters of literature, including:
 
• 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”)
• Ernest Hemingway (“The Killers”)
• And more!
 
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a gooseflesh special,” Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural is a must-read for every horror fan and lover of classic literature.