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A Complete Horror Book - Including Haunting, Horror, Diabolism, Witchcraft, and Evil Lore (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781528770606
Publisher: Fantasy and Horror Classics
Published: Oct 21 2022
Pages: 624
Weight: 2.06
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Everything that terrifies, from a ghostly touch to a Devil's pact, is gathered within these pages.
This monumental collection is an absolute feast of classic supernatural literature, drawing together the finest tales of dread, ghostly terror, and infernal bargains from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Featuring a breathtaking array of masters and forgotten voices, this volume is a definitive guide to the darkest impulses of classic horror fiction.
STORIES OF HAUNTINGS AND HORROR:
This section contains some of the most famous and chilling ghost stories ever written:
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu: The master of Irish Gothic provides two classics: Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand and An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, detailing chilling, localised, and profoundly unsettling hauntings.
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E. Nesbit: Known for her children's stories, Nesbit proves her dark skill with the perfect, unsettling climax of Man-Size in Marble and the heartbreaking terror of John Charrington's Wedding.
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Charles Dickens: The Victorian titan delivers two masterpieces of terror: the deeply atmospheric The Signal Man and the darkly humorous To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt.
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Miss Braddon: A sensational Victorian novelist contributes two powerful tales: The Cold Embrace and Eveline's Visitant, showcasing her flair for melodrama and spectral vengeance.
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Amelia B. Edwards: A Victorian intellectual whose The Phantom Coach and The Engineer explore the unique terror of transportation and machinery combined with the supernatural.
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Bram Stoker: The author of Dracula delivers The Judge's House, a chilling study of a cursed building and a sinister judicial presence.
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Roger Pater, Vincent O'Sullivan, Charles Collins, and E. and H. Heron: Contributions from masters of the weird and occult detective fiction, ensuring a broad range of spectral encounters from psychological dread to methodical investigations.
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Wilkie Collins, Vernon Lee, Rosa Mulholland, Perceval Landon, and Amyas Northcote: These diverse writers complete the section with tales of terrifying dreams, foreign curses, and inescapable psychological and ancestral doom.
DIABOLISM, WITCHCRAFT, AND EVIL LORE:
This section plunges into the dark heart of occult sin and supernatural transgression:
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu: His novella Carmilla is a foundational masterpiece of vampire fiction, predating Dracula with its unsettling, sensual, and psychologically complex horror. His Sir Dominick's Bargain is a classic of the fatal pact.
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Richard Barham: Two darkly comic yet genuinely unsettling tales, Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris and Jerry Jarvis's Wig, use folklore and the absurd to explore encounters with the demonic and the magical.
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Frederick Marryat: The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains is a vivid Gothic tale of lycanthropy, rooted in European folklore.
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Vincent O'Sullivan and Roger Pater: Contributions focusing on the devastating consequences of deals made with dark forces.
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