
Pumpkins' Glow: 200+ Eerie Tales for Halloween
A Classic Anthology of Ghosts, Vampires, Haunted Houses, Occult Mysteries, and Weird FictionBy 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, 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 48m
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Pumpkins' Glow: 200+ Eerie Tales for Halloween gathers a capacious archive of the macabre, moving from Gothic romance, ghost story, and occult fantasy to detective fiction, satire, folklore, psychological terror, and early weird fiction. Its breadth illuminates Halloween not merely as a seasonal occasion but as a literary threshold where superstition, mortality, masquerade, and social unease converge. Alongside familiar haunted houses, revenants, curses, and uncanny doubles, readers encounter comic grotesquerie, colonial anxieties, spiritualist speculation, and chilling domestic disturbances. The volume's many short forms—from compact shocks to elaborately atmospheric narratives—demonstrate the adaptability of supernatural writing across centuries and national traditions. The contributors form an unusually rich international constellation, including canonical Victorian and American writers, French Decadents, German Romanticists, Irish and Scottish fantasists, popular sensationalists, and figures associated with spiritualism and psychical research. Their collective work traces the development of the Gothic from its Romantic inheritance through nineteenth-century realism and sensation fiction into modern horror and cosmic dread. These varied voices reveal how fears of crime, empire, scientific change, religious uncertainty, and the afterlife repeatedly shaped the eerie imagination. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted Halloween readers, this anthology offers an exceptional opportunity to compare styles, motifs, and cultural assumptions within one expansive volume. It rewards both selective browsing and sustained study, fostering a lively dialogue between classic tales and neglected curiosities.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length280 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Myths of the Rhine (Annotated)
2Pumpkins' Glow: 200+ Eerie Tales for Halloween
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