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    In this volume authors such as M.R. lames, Le Fanu, Henry lames, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Bierce, Balzac, Gaskell, Scott and many others invite you to close the curtains, lock all your doors, draw your armchair a little closer to the blazing fire and settle down to a spine-chilling read.

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    The Wordswo'rth Book o[ Horror stories is a superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre, many are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of the supernatural.
    From the beginning of time, man the world over has drawn upon the worst fears of his conscious and subconscious mind to furnish legends of terror. In this volume authors such as M.R. lames, Le Fanu, Henry lames, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Bierce, Balzac, Gaskell, Scott and many others invite you to close the curtains, lock all your doors, draw your armchair a little closer to the blazing fire and settle down to a spine-chilling read.

A. AND C. ASKEW
Aylmer Vance and the Vampire
HONORE DE BALZAC x799-I85O
The Mysterious Mansion
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM I788--t845
The Spectre of Tappington
AMBROSE BIERCE 1842-19i4
The Damned Thing
MISS BRADDON
(MARY ELIZABETH MAXWELL) 1837-19I5
Eveline ' s Visitant
A CLERGYMAN
A Ghostly Manifestation
Correspondence on A Ghostly Manifestation'
WILKIE COLLINS I824-I889
A Terribly Strange Bed
CHARLES DICKENS I812--I870
The Story of the Bagman's Uncle
To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt
The Signalman
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I859-193o
The Brazilian Cat
The Ring of Thoth
The Lord of Chitteau Noir
The New Catacomb
The Case of Lady Sannox
The Brown Hand
The Horror of the Heights
The Terror of the Blue John Gap
The Captain of the Polestar
How It Happened
Playing with Fire
The Leather Funnel
Lot No. 249
The Los Amigos Fiasco
The Nightmare Room
AMELIA B. EDWARDS
(AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD)1831--1892
The Phantom Coach
ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL i8io-i865
The Squire's Story
w. F. HARVEY I885--I937
The Beast with Five Fingers
a. s. HAWKER I803--I875
The Botathen Ghost
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1804--1864
W.H. HODSON 1877--1918
The Gateway of the Monster
JAMES HOGG, THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD, 1770-1835
The Story of Euphemia Hew#
VIOLET HUNT 1866-1942
The Prayer
W.W. JACOBS I863--I943
The Monkey's Paw
HENRY JAMES I843-r916
The olly Corner
M. R JAMES 1862-1936
A School Story
Canon Alberic's Scrapbook
Lost Hearts
The Mezzotint
The Ash Tree
Number 13
Count Magnus
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
The Rose Garden
The Tractate Middoth
Casting the Runes
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Martin's Close
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance
The Residence at Whitminster
The Diary of Mr Poynter
An Episode of Cathedral History
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
Two Doctors
The Haunted Dolls' House
The Uncommon Prayer-Book
A Neigbbour's Landmark
A View from a Hill
A Warning to the Curious
An Evening's Entertainment
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
Rats
After Dark in the Playing Fields
Wailing Well
Stories I Have Tried to Write
RUDYARD KIPLING i865-i936
The Mark of the Beast
PERCEVAL LANDON
Thurnley Abbey
JOHN LANG c. 1816-1864
Fisher's Ghost
D. H. LAWRENCE 1885-1930
The Rocking-Horse Winner
JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU 1814-1873
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand
Green Tea
Madam Crowl' s Ghost
Squire Yoby's Will
Dickon the Devil
The Child That Went with the Fairies
The White Cat of Drumgunniol
Ghost Stories of Chapdizod
Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling
Sir Dominick's Bargain
Ultor de Lacy
The Vision of Tom Churl
Stories of Lough Guir
LORD LYTTON 1814--1873
The Haunted and the Haunters
GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1850--1893
Vendetta
EDITH NESBIT I858--I924
Man-Size in Marble
HOWARD PEASE
In the Cliff Land of the Dane
EDGAR ALLAN POE i8o9-I849
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Black Cat
A. M. PUSHKIN I799--I837
The Ace of Spades
SAKI (H. H. MUNRO) I870--X916
Laura
Sredni Vashtar
SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771-1832
The Tapestried Chamber
Wandering Willie's Tale
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I850--I894
Markheim
Thrawn Janet
BRAM STOKER i847-i912
Dracula ' s Guest
EDMUND LENTHAL SWIFTE
Ghost in the Tower
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1811-1863
The Story of Mary Ancel
HUGH WALPOLE 1884--194I
Tarnhelm
OSCAR WILDE 1854--1900
The Canterville Ghost