Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

xiii • Introduction xix • Introduction to the Notes TALES OF TERROR 3 • La Grande Bretêche, by Honoré de Balzac 23 • The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe 33 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe 43 • A Terribly Strange Bed, by Wilkie Collins 55 • The Boarded Window, by Ambrose Bierce 60 • The Three Strangers, by Thomas Hardy 83 • The Interruption, by W. W. Jacobs 96 • Pollock and the Porroh Man, by H. G. Wells 112 • The Sea Raiders, by H. G. Wells 123 • Sredni Vashtar, by Saki 129 • Moonlight Sonata, by Alexander Woollcott 132 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow, by Conrad Aiken 150 • Suspicion, by Dorothy L. Sayers 166 • The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell 182 • Leiningen Versus the Ants, by Carl Stephenson 204 • The Gentleman from America, by Michael Arlen 223 • A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner 233 • The Killers, by Ernest Hemingway 243 • Back for Christmas, by John Collier 249 • Taboo, by Geoffrey Household TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL 273 • The Haunters and the Haunted: or, The House and the Brain, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton 312 • Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 342 • The Trial for Murder, by Charles Dickens 354 • Green Tea, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 387 • What Was It?, by Fitz-James O'Brien 401 • Sir Edmund Orme, by Henry James 430 • The Horla, by Guy de Maupassant 454 • Was It a Dream?, by Guy de Maupassant 459 • The Screaming Skull, F. Marion Crawford 488 • The Furnished Room, by O. Henry 495 • Casting the Runes, by M. R. James 516 • Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, by M. R. James 536 • Afterward, by Edith Wharton 567 • The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs 579 • The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen 633 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea, by Robert Hichens 679 • The Return of Imray, by Rudyard Kipling 692 • "They", by Rudyard Kipling 714 • Lukundoo, by Edward Lucas White 729 • Caterpillars, by E. F. Benson 738 • Mrs. Amworth, by E. F. Benson 753 • Ancient Sorceries, by Algernon Blackwood 800 • Confession, by Algernon Blackwood 818 • The Open Window, by Saki 822 • The Beckoning Fair One, by Oliver Onions 888 • Out of the Deep, by Walter de la Mare 916 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, by A. E. Coppard 927 • The Celestial Omnibus, by E. M. Forster 943 • The Ghost Ship, by Richard Middleton 954 • The Sailor-Boy's Tale, by Isak Dinesen 965 • The Rats in the Walls, by H. P. Lovecraft 986 • The Dunwich Horror, by H. P. Lovecraft