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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Wilkie Collins
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

Wilkie Collins
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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