
TRICK OR TREAT Boxed Set: 200+ Eerie Tales from the Greatest Storytellers
A Classic Anthology of Ghosts, Vampires, Cosmic Dread, and Gothic TerrorBy H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, M. P. Shiel, John William Polidori, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, 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 BuchanLength280h 47m
About this audiobook
TRICK OR TREAT gathers more than two hundred eerie tales into a capacious archive of the macabre, tracing supernatural fiction from classical marvels and Gothic terrors to Victorian sensation, fin-de-siècle decadence, psychological horror, and early modern weird fiction. Ghost stories, vampiric visitations, cursed objects, haunted houses, doubles, revenants, and inexplicable encounters appear in styles ranging from antiquarian chill and melodramatic Gothicism to satire, realism, and cosmic dread. The collection's scale makes its standout motifs—especially the unstable boundary between rational inquiry and the supernatural—resonate across centuries. Its contributors form an extraordinary transnational genealogy of fantastic literature: canonical Gothic innovators stand beside practitioners of detective fiction, sensation novels, folklore-inflected tales, spiritualist narratives, and the modern weird. British, Irish, American, French, German, Spanish, and other voices reveal how horror developed through Romanticism, the Victorian ghost-story tradition, Decadence, colonial encounter, and emergent psychological and scientific anxieties. Together, these writers demonstrate that the eerie tale has continually adapted to changing cultural fears while retaining its power to unsettle ordinary life. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted readers of supernatural fiction, this boxed set offers an unusually rich comparative reading experience. Its breadth invites readers to follow recurring images and conventions across distinct national traditions and literary modes. Delving into these tales illuminates both the history of horror and the compelling dialogue created when many generations of storytellers confront the unknown.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length280 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 16, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The King in Yellow (Annotated)
2TRICK OR TREAT Boxed Set: 200+ Eerie Tales from the Greatest Storytellers
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