Tales From Beyond The Grave
Octopus Publishing Group, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.G. Wells, Matthew Gregory Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, M.R. James, Nikolai Gogol, Seabury Quinn, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Robert Bloch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Algernon Blackwood, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Ambrose Bierce, Hume Nisbet, E.F. Benson, James Thurber, Guy de Maupassant, Oliver Onions, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lawrence Mynott, Robert Graves
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· 1 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 30 Mar 1982
The story settings extend form the heyday of nineteenth century mystery writing - represented by such writers as Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - to the frightening immediacy of contemporary stories like Ray Bradbury's Fever Dream and Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper. In tone and subject matter the stories range from irresistible cumulative horror, as in Mrs. Amworth by E.F. Benson, to the clipped ironic style of Gogol's masterpiece, The Overcoat, including also a flavour of Gothic melodrama in Matthew Lewis' The Monk, the subtle sexuality of The Gray Wolf by George Macdonald and J.R.R. Tolkien's celebrated world of wizardry and magic.
Every variety of supernatural phenomenon is contained within these pages, making this anthology both an ideal introduction for new readers of the genre and a valuable addition to the library of the established connoisseur.
Cover Illustration: Mick Brownfield