Classic Tales of Horror

Leather / fine binding

Main Details

Title Classic Tales of Horror
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Editors of Canterbury Classics
Introduction by Ernest Hilbert
SeriesLeather-bound Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Leather / fine binding
Pages:896
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 159
Category/GenreClassic horror and ghost stories
Myth and legend told as fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781626864658
ClassificationsDewey:813.0873808
Audience
General
Illustrations b-w illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Canterbury Classics
Imprint Canterbury Classics
Publication Date 12 November 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

Spine-tingling tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat! This chilling collection of scary stories will keep you awake for hours! Psychological horrors, disturbing dramas, and gruesome ghosts compose this compendium of confessions made in the dead of night. From vampires and a monkey paw to an unstoppable heart and haunting apparitions, anecdotes of supernatural terror will have you turning pages long past the witching hour. Allow famous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Henry James, Washington Irving, and more to prey upon your emotions and peace of mind at slumber parties and camping trips, or anytime you want to end the night with a delightful fright!

Author Biography

Canterbury Classics is an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Readerlink Distribution Services, LLC, the largest full-service book distributor to non-trade booksellers in North America. Canterbury Classics publishes classic works of literature in fresh, modern formats. From elegant leather-bound editions to whimsical pop-up books to the best-selling Word Cloud Classics series and more, our extensive collection is sure to captivate and inspire readers and brighten bookshelves. Ernest Hilbert received his doctorate in English Language and Literature from Oxford University in 2000. He has served as editor for the Oxford Quarterly, Random House's magazine Bold Type, and the Contemporary Poetry Review. His writing has appeared in American Scholar, The New Republic, The New Criterion, London Magazine, Yale Review, and many other publications. He is an antiquarian bookseller with the firm Bauman Rare Books, where he has had the pleasure of placing many Charles Dickens first editions of into private and public collections.