"Edited to make [it] more accessible to today's readers"--Publisher's Web site
Contents:
Afterword. Charles Dickens -- The ransom of Red Chief / O'Henry -- The open window / Saki -- The cask of Montillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Afterword.
Summary:
Get ready to chuckle and to shiver - sometimes both at once! Within these pages you'll encounter situations that are scary or amusing, but always unforgettable. Here are just three of them: when blundering kidnappers snatch a little boy, the hilarious events that follow will leave you wondering who the "victim" really is; two old friends enter the gloomy wine cellar, its cold walls dripping with dampness. Only one of the friends will ever leave; and riding home from a late-night party, a timid schoolmaster is pursued by a terrifying man on horseback - a man with no head. - Back cover
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