HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 200+ Mysteries, Horror Classics & Supernatural Tales
200+ Gothic Ghost Stories, Occult Mysteries, and Supernatural HorrorsBy Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, M. P. Shiel, John William Polidori, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Pedro De Alarçon, Walter Hubbell, Washington Irving, Francis Marion Crawford, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, W. W. Jacobs, Wilhelm Hauff, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Daniel Defoe, Jack London, George MacDonald, Mark Twain, Pliny the Younger, Margaret Oliphant, Helena Blavatsky, Fergus Hume, Florence Marryat, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William Archer, William F. Harvey, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, Leopold Kompert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Ellis Parker Butler, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Fiona Macleod, Lafcadio Hearn, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando, Brander Matthews, Leonard Kip, Frank R. Stockton, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Anatole France, Richard Le Gallienne, Henry James, John Buchan
Length278h 43m
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HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection gathers more than two hundred mysteries, horror classics, and supernatural tales into a capacious genealogy of the uncanny. Its pages range from Gothic terror, spectral visitation, and macabre romance to detective puzzles, folklore-inflected wonders, psychological dread, and satirical grotesquerie. Across Victorian, Romantic, fin-de-siècle, and early modern traditions, the volume traces how haunted houses, revenants, doubles, cursed objects, and inexplicable disturbances become instruments for examining fear, desire, mortality, and social unease. Standout modes include the antiquarian ghost story, the urban mystery, the sea-borne terror, and the philosophical nightmare. The contributors form an unusually broad international and transatlantic constellation, joining canonical innovators of Gothic and weird fiction with popular magazine writers, journalists, spiritualist commentators, and authors of sensation fiction. Their collective work illuminates the evolution of supernatural literature from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic conventions through decadence, occult revival, detective fiction, and cosmic horror. French, German, British, Irish, American, and other European voices expand the anthology beyond a single national tradition, revealing the genre as a sustained cultural conversation. This collection is especially rewarding for readers seeking both entertainment and literary context. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare narrative forms, historical anxieties, and competing explanations of the marvelous within one volume. Students, scholars, and devoted Halloween readers alike will find a rich archive of genre development, imaginative variety, and productive dialogue among the uncanny's many voices.
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GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length278 hrs 43 mins
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Publish dateOct 16, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Tales of the Thames (Thriller & Action Adventure Books - Boxed Set) (Annotated)
2James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest
3Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4I. The Strange Customer at Sweeney Todd's
5II. The Spectacle Maker's Daughter
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6III. The Dog and the Heat
7IV. The Pie-Shop in Bell Yard
8V. The Meeting in the Temple
9VI. The Conference, and the Fearful Narration in the Garden
10VII. The Barber and the Lapidiary
11VIII. The Thieves' Home
12IX. Johanna At Home, and the Resolution
13X. The Colonel and His Friend
14XI. The Stranger at Lovett's
15XII. The Resolution Come To By Johanna Oakley
16XIII. Johanna's Interview with Arabella Wilmot, and the Advice
17XIV. Tobias's Threat, and Its Consequences
18XV. The Second Interview Between Johanna and the Colonel in the Temple Gardens
19XVI. The Barber Makes Another Attempt To Sell the String of Pearls
20XVII. The Great Change in the Prospects for Sweeney Todd
21XVIII. Tobias's Adventures During the Absence of Sweeney Todd
22XIX. The Strange Odour in St. Dunstan's Church
23XX. Sweeney Todd's Proceedings Consequent Upon the Departure of Tobias
24XXI. The Misadventure of Tobias: The Madhouse on Peckham Rye
25XXII. The Madhouse Cell
26XXIII. The New Cook of Mrs. Lovett Gets Tired of His Situation
27XXIV. The Night at the Madhouse
28XXV. Mr. Fogg's Story at the Madhouse
29XXVI. Colonel Jeffrey Makes Another Effort to Come at Sweeney Todd's Secret
30XXVII. Tobias Makes an Attempt to Escape From the Madhouse
31XXVIII. The Madhouse Yard, and Tobias's New Friend
32XXIX. The Consultation of Colonel Jeffrey With the Magistrate
33XXX. Tobias's Escape From Mr. Fogg's Establishment
34XXXI. The Rapid Journey of Tobias to London
35XXXII. The Announcement in Sweeney Todd's Window, Johanna Oakley's Adventure
36XXXIII. Discoveries in the Vaults of St. Dunstan's
37XXXIV. Johanna Alone, the Secret, Mr. Todd's Suspicions, the Mysterious Letter
38XXXV. Sweeney Todd Commences Clearing the Road to Retirement
39XXXVI. The Last Batch of Delicious Pies
40XXXVII. The Prisoner's Plan of Escape From the Pies
41XXXVIII. Sweeney Todd Shaves a Good Customer. The Arrest.
42XXXIX. The Conclusion
43Edgar Allan Poe
44The Tell-Tale Heart
45The Fall of the House of Usher
46The Cask of Amontillado
47The Pit and the Pendulum
48The Masque of the Red Death
49The Black Cat
50The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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