Publisher Description
A spine-tingling collection of weird and wonderful horror stories, featuring ghosts, curses, strange phenomena, ghouls, black magic, and demonic apparitions. Do you dare to listen?
The following stories are included in this recording:
- “Nyarlathotep” by H. P. Lovecraft
- “The Ship that saw a Ghost” by Frank Norris
- “Lost in a Pyramid” by Louisa May Alcott
- “The Girl Who Was Tired of Love” by Leonard Merrick
- “The Brothers” by Stacy Aumonier
- “The Devil’s Spectacles” by Wilkie Collins
- “Glad Ghosts” by D. H. Lawrence
- “The Mummy’s Foot” by Théophile Gautier
- “The Ring of Thoth” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Famous Race Between the Hearse and the Steamroller” by Sidney Keyes
- “Lot No. 249” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Money’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
- “My Favorite Murder” by Ambrose Bierce
- “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “Imprisoned with the Pharaohs” by Harry Houdini and H. P. Lovecraft
- “The Story of Baelbrow” by E. & H. Heron
- “The Idiot” by Arnold Bennett
- “Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty” by Stacy Aumonier
- “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “Sredni Vashtar” by Saki
- “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Lifted Veil” by George Eliot
- “The Telltale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Withered Arm” by Thomas Hardy
- “Smith and the Pharaohs” by H. Rider Haggard
- “A Professor of Egyptology” by Guy Boothby
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About various authors
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became quite well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer. When he was fourteen, he set off for the capital, Copenhagen, determined to become a national success on the stage. He failed miserably, but made some influential friends in the capital who got him into school to remedy his lack of proper education. In 1829 his first book was published. After that, books came out at regular intervals. His stories began to be translated into English as early as 1846. Since then, numerous editions, and more recently Hollywood songs and Disney cartoons, have helped to ensure the continuing popularity of the stories in the English-speaking world.