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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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 , Wilkie Collins , Henry James , Guy de Maupassant , O. Henry , Rudyard Kipling , and H.G. Wells . Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood , Walter de la Mare , E.M. Forster , Isak Dinesen , H.P. Lovecraft , Dorothy L. Sayers , and Ernest Hemingway .

"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.

Language: English

Pages: 1056

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Modern Library

Release: October 18, 1994

ISBN: 0679601287

ISBN 13: 9780679601289

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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 , Wilkie Collins , Henry James , Guy de Maupassant , O. Henry , Rudyard Kipling , and H.G. Wells . Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood , Walter de la Mare , E.M. Forster , Isak Dinesen , H.P. Lovecraft , Dorothy L. Sayers , and Ernest Hemingway .

"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.

Language: English

Pages: 1056

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Modern Library

Release: October 18, 1994

ISBN: 0679601287

ISBN 13: 9780679601289

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