WHAT WAS IT? THE BIG BOOK OF SPOOKY TALES – 55+ Occult & Supernatural Thrillers (Horror Classics Anthology)
55+ Classic Tales of Ghosts, Occult, and DreadBy Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Villiers Adam, C. Moffett, William Archer, F. Marryat, Fitz-James O'Brien, Guy de Maupassant, R. L. Stevenson, W. F. Harvey, M. R. James, Katherine Rickford, Pliny the Younger, Théopile Gautier, Margaret Oliphant, Lafcadio Hearn, C. B. Fernando, Brander Matthews, Joseph L. French
Length41h 28m
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WHAT WAS IT? THE BIG BOOK OF SPOOKY TALES gathers more than fifty occult and supernatural thrillers into a capacious history of literary unease. Ranging from antique marvels and Gothic visitations to psychological terror, detective-inflected mysteries, and fin-de-siècle decadence, the volume traces the ghost story's evolving forms. Memorable encounters with ambiguous apparitions, cursed objects, doubles, and inexplicable presences reveal how horror converts uncertainty into narrative power. Its contributors span centuries, national traditions, and popular as well as canonical literary cultures. From Pliny the Younger's early supernatural testimony through Romantic and Victorian Gothic experimentation to French fantastic fiction and Anglo-American weird tales, these writers collectively chart changing attitudes toward science, spiritualism, colonial contact, domesticity, and the unconscious. The assembly of Hawthorne, Poe, Collins, Gautier, Maupassant, Stevenson, Oliphant, Hearn, M. R. James, and their contemporaries situates the anthology within the broad development of the modern tale of terror. Recommended for students, scholars, and devoted readers of the uncanny, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare styles, eras, and explanations of the supernatural in one book. Its breadth makes it valuable both as an introduction to horror's major traditions and as a sustained dialogue among distinct imaginative voices.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length41 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 27, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1WHAT WAS IT? THE BIG BOOK OF SPOOKY TALES – 55+ Occult & Supernatural Thrillers (Horror Classics Anthology)
2THE WIRE DEVILS (Annotated)
3Ghost Stories
4Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson)
5The Horla (Guy de Maupassant)
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6To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger)
7The Beast with Five Fingers (William F. Harvey)
8I
9II
10III
11IV
12Number 13 (Montague Rhodes James)
13Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)
14Sister Maddelena (Ralph Adams Cram)
15The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson)
16The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling)
17The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe)
18THE PREFACE
19A RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL
20TO THE READER
21Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book (M. R. James)
22The Haunted and the Haunters (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
23The Silent Woman (Leopold Kompert)
24The Rival Ghosts (Brander Matthews)
25The Damned Thing (Ambrose Bierce)
26I ONE DOES NOT ALWAYS EAT WHAT IS ON THE TABLE
27II WHAT MAY HAPPEN IN A FIELD OF WILD OATS
28III A MAN THOUGH NAKED MAY BE IN RAGS
29IV AN EXPLANATION FROM THE TOMB
30The Interval (Vincent O'Sullivan)
31Dey Ain't No Ghosts (Ellis Parker Butler)
32The Banshees of Ireland
33THE GIANT GHOST
34SOME FAMOUS GHOSTS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITOL
35A GENUINE GHOST
36THE BAGGAGEMAN'S GHOST
37DRUMMERS SEE A SPECTER
38DR. FUNK SEES THE SPIRIT OF BEECHER
39MYSTERY OF THE COINS
40MR. BEECHER APPEASED
41MARYLAND GHOSTS
42THE GHOST OF PEG ALLEY'S POINT
43AN APPARITION AND DEATH
44AN IDIOT GHOST WITH BRASS BUTTONS
45A MODEL GHOST STORY
46A GHOST THAT WILL NOT DOWN
47TOM CYPHER'S PHANTOM ENGINE
48GHOSTS IN CONNECTICUT
49THE SPOOK OF DIAMOND ISLAND
50THE GHOST'S FULL HOUSE
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