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:

- Edgar Allan Poe:

- The Tell-Tale Heart

- The Cask of Amontillado

- The Masque of the Red Death

- The Pit and the Pendulum

- The Fall of the House of Usher

- The Murders in the Rue Morgue

- The Black Cat

- H. P. Lovecraft:

- The Call of Cthulhu

- The Outsider

- Pickman's Model

- The Statement of Randolph Carter

- The Colour out of Space

- The Dunwich Horror

- The Music of Erich Zann

- W. W. Jacobs:

- The Monkey's Paw

- A Golden Venture

- A Love-Knot

- An Adulteration Act

- Back to Back

- Establishing Relations

- Captain Rogers

- E.T.A. Hoffmann:

- The Golden Pot

- The Sandman

- Councillor Krespela

- Automata

- The Elementary Spirit

- The Jesuits' Church in G--

- The Story of the Hard Nut

- Robert Louis Stevenson:

- The Waif Woman

- The Bottle Imp

- Thrawn Janet

- Markheim

- The Body Snatcher

- Olalla

- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde