The World's Greatest Horror Stories

Supernatural Horror in Literature — H. P. Lovecraft The Signalman — Charles Dickens The House and the Brain — Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Body Snatcher — Robert Louis Stevenson The Spider — Hanns Heinz Ewers The Foot of the Mummy — Theophile Gautier The Horla — Guy de Maupassant The Fall of the House of Usher — Edgar Allan Poe The Damned Thing — Ambrose Bierce The Upper Berth — F. Marion Crawford The Yellow Sign — Robert W. Chambers The Shadows on the Wall — Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman The Dead Valley — Ralph Adams Cram Fishhead — Irvin S. Cobb Lukundoo — Edward Lucas White The Double Shadow — Clark Ashton Smith The Mark of the Beast — Rudyard Kipling Negotium Perambulans — E. F. Benson Mrs. Lunt — Hugh Walpole The Hog — William Hope Hodgson The Great God Pan — Arthur Machen Count Magnus — M. R. James Afterword: Lovecraft and the 'Literature of Cosmic Fear'