Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre

by Les Daniels

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Anthology compiled by Les Daniels.

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Les Daniels

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Les Daniels is the author of several pop culture histories, including "Superman: The Complete History", "Batman: The Complete History", and "Wonder Woman: The Complete History" . He lives in Providence, Rhode Island. (Bowker Author Biography)

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The Red Room [short story] by H. G. Wells

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The Exiles' Club [short story] by Lord Dunsany

The Call of Cthulhu [short story] by H. P. Lovecraft

A Visitor From Egypt by Frank Belknap Long

The Graveyard Rats [short story] by Henry Kuttner

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They Bite [short story] by Anthony Boucher

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The Man Who Never Grew Young [short story] by Fritz Leiber

Born of Man and Woman [short story] by Richard Matheson

Levitation [short story] by Joseph Payne Brennan

The House in Goblin Wood by John Dickson Carr

The Voice in the Night [short story] by William Hope Hodgson

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Canonical title: Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre
Original publication date: 1976

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Genres: Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
DDC/MDS: 823.0872 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
LCC: PZ1 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English

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