Description

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.