Great Tales of Terror

These 23 chilling tales tell of the returning dead, haunted places, weird creatures, and the supernatural in "The Return of the Soul" by Robert Hichens, "The Mummy's Foot" by Theophile Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn's "Of a Promise Broken," as well as spine-tinglers by Algernon Blackwood, J. Sheridan LeFanu, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lord Dunsany, and other masters.

Introduction

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I. The Terror of Revenants

The Haunted Dragoon

3

(13)

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Graven Image

16

(10)

William Sharp

The Return of the Soul

26

(48)

Robert Hichens

Of a Promise Broken

74

(7)

Lafcadio Hearn

The Promise

81

(10)

Walter De La Mare

II. The Terror of Haunted Places

The Ghosts of Austerlitz

91

(11)

William Waldorf Astor

The Coach

102

(18)

Violet Hunt

The Night School

120

(11)

James Hopper

III. The Terror of Weird Creatures

The Mummy's Foot

131

(13)

Theophile Gautier

The Discomfited Demon

144

(2)

Ambrose Bierce

The Tortoise

146

(11)

W. F. Harvey

IV. The Terror of the Superhuman

Borrhomeo the Astrologer

157

(13)

J. Sheridan LeFanu

The Diary of a God

170

(8)

Barry Pain

The Three Drugs

178

(20)

E. Nesbit

The Window of Horrors

198

(18)

H. L. Mencken

The Man Who Lost His Head

216

(13)

Thomas Burke

V. The Terror of Fantasy

The Queen of the Bees

229

(12)

Erckmann-Chatrian

The Caves of Death

241

(9)

Gertrude Atherton

The Soldiers' Rest

250

(7)

Arthur Machen

VI. The Terror of the Cosmic

Romance

257

(4)

Lord Dunsany

The Man Who Found Out

261

(17)

Algernon Blackwood

A Negligible Experiment

278

(6)

J. D. Beresford

The Root-Gatherers

284

(7)

R. H. Barlow

Notes on the Authors

291

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