
Halloween Boxed Set: 200+ Horror Classics & Supernatural Mysteries
A Treasury of Gothic Ghosts, Vampires, Occult Mysteries, and Weird TalesBy Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, John Buchan, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Anatole France, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Ralph Adams Cram, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, William Archer, Daniel Defoe, Brander Matthews, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Fergus Hume, Walter Hubbell, Leopold Kompert, Florence Marryat, John William Polidori, Vincent O'Sullivan, W. W. Jacobs, M. P. Shiel, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Shelley, Margaret Oliphant, Frank R. Stockton, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Leonard Kip, Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Pedro De Alarçon, Pliny the Younger, Helena Blavatsky, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William F. Harvey, Fiona Macleod, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey FernandoLength280h 49m
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Halloween Boxed Set: 200+ Horror Classics & Supernatural Mysteries maps the long literary history of fright, from ancient spectral testimony and Gothic romance to Victorian sensation fiction, psychological terror, and early cosmic horror. Its capacious selection moves among ghost stories, haunted houses, curses, doubles, revenants, occult investigations, and grotesque satire. Canonical tales of vampirism, murder, maritime dread, and inexplicable visitations stand beside lesser-known curiosities, revealing horror as a remarkably flexible mode of cultural imagination. The contributors form an international, transhistorical chorus: Romantic and Gothic experimenters, nineteenth-century realists, advocates of social reform, popular sensationalists, Symbolists, Decadents, and architects of modern weird fiction. British, American, French, German, and other European traditions intersect here, while writers associated with the ghost-story revival, detective fiction, imperial adventure, spiritualism, and the Gothic novel broaden the collection's intellectual terrain. Together, these voices show how supernatural narrative repeatedly absorbs contemporary anxieties concerning class, gender, science, colonial encounter, crime, faith, and mortality. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking both Halloween atmosphere and a serious survey of horror's evolution. Its abundance invites comparison across styles and periods, offering an educational encounter with the forms that shaped supernatural literature. Read sequentially or sampled at leisure, the anthology fosters a rich dialogue between terror's enduring conventions and its endlessly changing cultural meanings.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length280 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Toys of Peace and Other Papers (Annotated)
2Halloween Boxed Set: 200+ Horror Classics & Supernatural Mysteries
3James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest
4Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5I. The Strange Customer at Sweeney Todd's
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6II. The Spectacle Maker's Daughter
7III. The Dog and the Heat
8IV. The Pie-Shop in Bell Yard
9V. The Meeting in the Temple
10VI. The Conference, and the Fearful Narration in the Garden
11VII. The Barber and the Lapidiary
12VIII. The Thieves' Home
13IX. Johanna At Home, and the Resolution
14X. The Colonel and His Friend
15XI. The Stranger at Lovett's
16XII. The Resolution Come To By Johanna Oakley
17XIII. Johanna's Interview with Arabella Wilmot, and the Advice
18XIV. Tobias's Threat, and Its Consequences
19XV. The Second Interview Between Johanna and the Colonel in the Temple Gardens
20XVI. The Barber Makes Another Attempt To Sell the String of Pearls
21XVII. The Great Change in the Prospects for Sweeney Todd
22XVIII. Tobias's Adventures During the Absence of Sweeney Todd
23XIX. The Strange Odour in St. Dunstan's Church
24XX. Sweeney Todd's Proceedings Consequent Upon the Departure of Tobias
25XXI. The Misadventure of Tobias: The Madhouse on Peckham Rye
26XXII. The Madhouse Cell
27XXIII. The New Cook of Mrs. Lovett Gets Tired of His Situation
28XXIV. The Night at the Madhouse
29XXV. Mr. Fogg's Story at the Madhouse
30XXVI. Colonel Jeffrey Makes Another Effort to Come at Sweeney Todd's Secret
31XXVII. Tobias Makes an Attempt to Escape From the Madhouse
32XXVIII. The Madhouse Yard, and Tobias's New Friend
33XXIX. The Consultation of Colonel Jeffrey With the Magistrate
34XXX. Tobias's Escape From Mr. Fogg's Establishment
35XXXI. The Rapid Journey of Tobias to London
36XXXII. The Announcement in Sweeney Todd's Window, Johanna Oakley's Adventure
37XXXIII. Discoveries in the Vaults of St. Dunstan's
38XXXIV. Johanna Alone, the Secret, Mr. Todd's Suspicions, the Mysterious Letter
39XXXV. Sweeney Todd Commences Clearing the Road to Retirement
40XXXVI. The Last Batch of Delicious Pies
41XXXVII. The Prisoner's Plan of Escape From the Pies
42XXXVIII. Sweeney Todd Shaves a Good Customer. The Arrest.
43XXXIX. The Conclusion
44Edgar Allan Poe
45The Tell-Tale Heart
46The Fall of the House of Usher
47The Cask of Amontillado
48The Pit and the Pendulum
49The Masque of the Red Death
50The Black Cat