Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Introduction Introduction to the Notes TALES OF TERROR Honoré de Balzac: La Grande Bretêche Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Wilkie Collins: A Terribly Strange Bed Ambrose Bierce: The Boarded Window Thomas Hardy: The Three Strangers W. W. Jacobs: The Interruption H. G. Wells: Pollock and the Porroh Man H. G. Wells: The Sea Raiders Saki: Sredni Vashtar Alexander Woollcott: Moonlight Sonata Conrad Aiken: Silent Snow, Secret Snow Dorothy L. Sayers: Suspicion Richard Connell: The Most Dangerous Game Carl Stephenson: Leiningen Versus the Ants Michael Arlen: The Gentleman from America William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily Ernest Hemingway: The Killers John Collier: Back for Christmas Geoffrey Household: Taboo TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Haunters and the Haunted or The House and the Brain Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini's Daughter Charles Collins and Charles Dickens: The Trial for Murder Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Green Tea Fitz-James O'Brien: What Was It? Henry James: Sir Edmund Orme Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Guy de Maupassant: Was It a Dream? F. Marion Crawford: The Screaming Skull O. Henry: The Furnished Room M. R. James: Casting the Runes M. R. James: Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad Edith Wharton: Afterward W. W. Jacobs: The Monkey's Paw Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan Robert Hichens: How Love Came to Professor Guildea Rudyard Kipling: The Return of Imray Rudyard Kipling: "They" Edward Lucas White: Lukundoo E. F. Benson: Caterpillars E. F. Benson: Mrs. Amworth Algernon Blackwood: Ancient Sorceries Algernon Blackwood: Confession Saki (H. H. Munro): The Open Window Oliver Onions: The Beckoning Fair One Walter de la Mare: Out of the Deep A. E. Coppard: Adam and Eve and Pinch Me E. M. Forster: The Celestial Omnibus Richard Middleton: The Ghost Ship Isak Dinesen: The Sailor-Boy's Tale H. P. Lovecraft: The Rats in the Walls H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror Acknowledgements