The body snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa / Washington Irving -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- There was a man dwelt by a churchyard / M.R. James -- The dead and the countess / Gertrude Atherton -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- A bottomless grave / Ambrose Bierce -- The room in the tower / E.F. Benson -- Silence / Edgar Allan Poe -- The turn of the screw / Henry James -- The trial for murder / Charles Dickens -- In Kropfsberg Keep / Ralph A. Cram -- The lost ghost / Mary E. Wilkins -- The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- No. 1 branch line, the signalman / Charles Dickens - The masque of the red death / Edgar Allen Poe.
Summary:
"A creepy collection of terrifying tales for readers of all ages. Author biographies and bone-chilling illustrations provide a powerful introduction to some of the most fiendish characters in literature"--Back cover.
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