
The best horror stories
William FaulknerThomas BurkeRoald DahlRobert SilverbergCyril M. KornbluthGuy de MaupassantJuliusz Kaden-BandrowskiPatricia HighsmithEdgar Allan PoeAuguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-AdamGraham GreeneGeoffrey HouseholdJohn Keir CrossDavid FletcherJohn CollierJoseph ConradRobert BlochBloch, RobertDorothy L. SayersHonoré de BalzacThomas HardyA. E. CoppardDaphne du MaurierCornell WoolrichStanley EllinArthur Conan DoyleRay BradburyFlannery O'Connor
First published 1990
About this book
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam --
An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac --
The hand / Guy de Maupassant --
The withered arm / Thomas Hardy --
The idiots / Joseph Conrad --
The bird / Thomas Burke --
Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski --
Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard --
Cinci / Luigi Pirandello --
Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers --
Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich --
Taboo / Geoffrey Household --
A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene --
The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth --
Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch --
The veld / Ray Bradbury --
Evening primrose / John Collier --
Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg --
[A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner --
The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor --
[Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W) / Roald Dahl --
Robert / Stanley Ellin --
The question / Stanley Ellin --
The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith --
Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier --
Corabella / David Fletcher.
Subjects
American Horror talesAmerican literatureChildren's fictionClassic LiteratureCrimeCrime fictionDetective and mystery storiesFictionfirst-person narrativeGothic fictionHomicideHorrorHorror fictionHorror storiesHorror talesHyperesthesiaJuvenile fiction