This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Horror.

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This book contains:

Bram Stoker:

- The Castle of the King

- A Star Trap

- The Secret of the Growing Gold

- The Burial of the Rats

- Dracula's Guest

- The Squaw

- The Judge's HouseSheridan Le Fanu:

- Carmilla

- Green Tea

- Mr. Justice Harbottle

- The Familiar

- The Room in the Dragon Volant

- Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow

- HauntedAmelia B. Edwards:

- An Engineer's Story

- A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest

- The Story of Salome

- In the Confessional

- Was it an illusion?

- How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries

- The Tragedy in the Palazzo BardelloE. F. Benson:

- The Room in the Tower

- Caterpillars

- Mrs. Amworth

- Mr. Tilly's Seance

- Negotium Perambulans

- How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery

- The Horror-HornHugh Walpole:

- The Whistle.

- The Silver Mask

- The Staircase.

- A carnation for an old man.

- Tarnhelm

- Mr. Oddy.

- Seashore Macabre.