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Loading... Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)by Herbert A. Wise
None. I've had this forever. I should read it or something.  beabatllori | Apr 2, 2013 |  A very wide-ranging selection --everything from Fauikner to Lovecraft. Mostly British and American nineteenth century or early 20th century, with a few French. Divided into 2 parts, Tales of Terror and Tales of the Supernatural, but many in the supernatural section are equally terrifying. The distinction seems to be the first group are not supernatural (e.g. A Rose for Emily) (  ) antiquary | Jun 17, 2011 | This is the single finest collection of tales of the supernatural I have ever encountered. Wall to wall classics of their kind. (  ) chexmix | Jan 11, 2011 | One hardly expects to be transfixed by an innocent looking Modern Library horror collection--one expects a rather dry "representative historical collection." This one though has an atmosphere about it, though . . . the lines of influence run fairly strongly through the stories of this collection. While the authors, styles and approaches to creating a sense of the uncanny are distinct, there is also something mutually reinforcing in these stories. A really great collection. ( ) ehines | Dec 5, 2010 | Excellent, excellent, excellent! Some of the early stories had me reading the sentences aloud. Words perfectly chosen to give mood, beautiful old little used words that fit perfectly. An English major horror freak's dream book. ( ) odamae | Apr 27, 2008 | no reviews | add a review ContainsLa Grande Breteche by Honoré de Balzac The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins The Boarded Window [Short story] by Ambrose Bierce The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy MOONLIGHT SONATA by Alexander Woollcott Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken "The Gentleman from America" (in Human and Inhuman Stories) by Michael Arlen Back for Christmas by John Collier The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Trial For Murder by Charles Dickens Green Tea by J. Sheridan LeFanu What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien Sir Edmund Orme (volume 17) (Notable American Authors) by Jr. Henry James The Horla by Guy de Maupassant Was It a Dream? by Guy de Maupassant The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford The Furnished Room (Tale Blazers) by O. Henry Casting the Runes [short story] by M. R. James Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You My Lad [short story] by M. R. James
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