100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories

by Sarrantonio, Al; Greenberg, Martin H.

• ISBN13: 9781402709753
• ISBN10: 1402709757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Sterling

Summary

The horror will overtake you and fill you with the most abominable satisfaction! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, and many others who know how to manipulate a reader's emotions. Whether it's a frightening game of "Peekaboo" or a scary portrayal of "The House at Evening," the alarming effect of these tales will keep you up tonight, and the following night, and the next! Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xv
The Adventure of My Grandfather	p. 1
The Adventure of My Aunt	p. 8
The Adventure of the German Student	p. 12
Ants	p. 17
The Assembly of the Dead	p. 20
At the Bureau	p. 24
Babylon: 70 M.	p. 27
Berenice	p. 33
Beyond the Wall	p. 40
The Boarded Window	p. 47
Boxes	p. 51
The Candidate	p. 57
Cemetery Dance	p. 63
The Certificate	p. 66
Cheapskate	p. 70
The China Bowl	p. 72
The Cobweb	p. 79
Come to the Party	p. 84
A Curious Dream	p. 91
Dark Wings	p. 98
Dead Call	p. 104
Different Kinds of Dead	p. 108
Displaced Person	p. 113
The Disintegration of Alan	p. 116
Down by the Sea near the Great Big Rock	p. 120
Dragon Sunday	p. 124
Duck Hunt	p. 126
The Dust	p. 129
The Evil Clergyman	p. 135
Examination Day	p. 139
The Faceless Thing	p. 142
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	p. 147
Feeding Time	p. 155
Feeding Time	p. 161
The Final Quest	p. 164
Fish Night	p. 167
The Four-Fingered Hand	p. 174
A Ghost Story	p. 179
Give Her Hell	p. 184
The Giveaway	p. 188
The Glove	p. 192
The Grab	p. 204
The Haunted Mill or the Ruined Home	p. 210
He Kilt It with a Stick	p. 217
Heading Home	p. 222
The Hollow of the Three Hills	p. 226
The Hollow Man	p. 230
Holly, Don't Tell	p. 235
The Hound	p. 241
The Hour and the Man	p. 248
The House at Evening	p. 255
The Idea	p. 261
Identity Crisis	p. 265
In the Corn	p. 270
An Incident on Route 12	p. 274
Interview	p. 279
The Jam	p. 283
The Kirk Spook	p. 286
Making Friends	p. 292
The Marble Hands	p. 294
Mariana	p. 296
Masque	p. 301
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot	p. 305
Moving Night	p. 312
Naples	p. 316
Night Visions	p. 322
Night Deposits	p. 326
Nightshapes	p. 332
No. 1 Branch Line, The Signalman	p. 338
The Old Black Hat	p. 349
Out of the Storm	p. 351
Out of Africa	p. 355
The Oval Portrait	p. 361
Party Time	p. 364
The Passenger	p. 366
Peekaboo	p. 372
The Pitch	p. 377
The Poor	p. 385
The Rag Thing	p. 388
Rendezvous	p. 393
The Same Old Grind	p. 397
The Skeleton	p. 401
Something There Is	p. 406
Spring-Fingered Jack	p. 414
Sredni Vashtar	p. 417
The Statement of Randolph Carter	p. 421
The Story of Muhammad Din	p. 426
The Thing in the Forest	p. 429
Threshold	p. 432
Today's Special	p. 438
Topsy	p. 443
Toy	p. 450
Transfer	p. 454
Treats	p. 460
Under My Bed	p. 465
Up Under the Roof	p. 468
The Upturned Face	p. 473
We Have Always Lived in the Forest	p. 477
Where Did She Wander?	p. 485
Witness	p. 494
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