Publisher Description
A gripping collection of weird and fantastical stories of supernatural and unbelievable happenings: Pomegranate Seed, by Edith Wharton; The Tiger, by Hugh Walpole; When I Was Dead, by Vincent O’Sullivan; The Fire, by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne; Satan’s Circus, by Eleanor Smith; The Coffin Merchant, by Richard Middleton; The Vampire, by Jan Neruda; Kerfol, by Edith Wharton; Mrs. Raeburn’s Waxwork, by Eleanor Smith; The Fiddler of the Reels, by Thomas Hardy; The Snow, by Hugh Walpole; The Mind Readers, by Barry Pain; The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand, by J. S. Fletcher; The Conjurer, by Richard Middleton; The Eastern Window, by E. G. Swain, A Study in Murder, by Vincent O’Sullivan; Room Number Ten, by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor; Seashore Macabre, by Hugh Walpole; Miss Mary Pask, by Edith Wharton; The Return, by R. Murray Gilchrist…and more tall stories.
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About the 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.
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast
television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization
is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of
master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English poet, dramatist, and novelist, was born on the Egdon Heath in Dorset. He studied in Dorchester and apprenticed to an architect before leaving for London, where he began to write. Unable to find a public for his poetry, which idealized the rural life, he turned to the novel and met with success as well as controversy. The strong public reaction against some of his darker themes turned him back to writing verse. Today several of his novels are considered masterpieces of tragedy.