If you're a fan of goosebumps and sleepless nights, "Great Horror Stories" could be your next favorite read. It's a collection that spans centuries, bringing together master storytellers of the macabre. You'll find classics from Edgar Allan Poe alongside lesser-known chillers that promise to broaden your horror horizons. Each story stands as a hallmark of the genre, offering a perfect blend of psychological thrills and supernatural haunts.

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Previously published as: The great book of thrillers (1936) by Odhams Press; Great tales of terror (1991) Chancellor Press.H2, Etc. / A.J. Alan --The smell in the library / Michael Arlen --The man in the bell / W.E. Aytoun --The mysterious man / Honore de Balzac --The folding doors / Marjorie Bowen --The lady of Glenwith Grange / Wilkie Collins --The new sun / J.S. Fletcher --Hot water / Val Gielgud --The island / L.P. Hartley --Edward Randolph's portrait / Nathaniel Hawthorne --The spectre bridegroom / Washington Irving --Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe --The tarn / Hugh Walpole --The resurrectionist / Samuel Warren --The blue room / Prosper Merimee --The cafe of terror / E. Phillips Oppenheim --The avenging chance / Anthony Berkeley --A lesson in crime / G.D.H. and M. Cole --Mr. Pemberton's commission / Freeman Wills Crofts --Who killed castelvetri? / Gilbert Frankau --The aluminium dagger / R. Austin Freeman --The Glyston slander / Herbert Jenkins --Arsene Lupin in prison / Maurice Leblanc --The Fenchurch street mystery / baroness Orczy --Peacock house / Eden Phillpotts --The vanishing diamond / John Rhode --Staley Fleming's hallucination / Ambrose Bierce --The Italian's story / Catherine Crowe --The ghost of Dorothy Dingley / Daniel Defoe --To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens --The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards --Madam Crowl's ghost / Sheridan Le Fanu --Black coffee / Jeffery Farnol --The black ferry / John Galt --The dreamland bride / Theophile Gautier --The dilemma of Phadrig / Gerald Griffin --Mary Burnet / James Hogg --The three sisters / W.W. Jacobs --The doctor's ghost / Norman Macleod.Mr. Kempe / Walter De La Mare --The tapestried chamber / sir Walter Scott --The frontier guards / Russell Wakefield --The red room / H.G. Wells --The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde --The gardener / E.F. Benson --A Spanish ghost story / Anon --

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