Classic Tales of Horror (Leather-bound Classics)

The leather binding and gilt-edged pages make this a beauty, but more than that are the superb traditional ghost and terror stories within. This is a book for discriminating readers only, yet the cost is within anyone's reach. Rather than vulgar stories filled with blood and hysterics, you get just the right touch of classic chill for your autumnal (and wintry) nights. There are 55(!) tales in all. A short sampling of titles includes Edith Wharton's excellent "Kerfol" (set in France, not England!); Saki's "The Open Window," with its humorous but chilling denouement; Marion Crawford's nocturnal "Screaming Skull"; and Stevenson's story of midnight dread, "The Body Snatchers," about an Edinburgh doctor who seeks corpses for laboratory instruction but is not too scrupulous about their provenance. So many great writers lie within: Poe ("William Wilson" and the forbidding "House of Usher"); Kafka, Henry James, Ambrose Bierce, the incomparable Algernon Blackwood, Polidori, W.W. Jacobs, Bram Stoker, Dickens, and M.R. James, just to name a few. If you are a connoisseur, you'll be familiar with some but, even so, they are all gathered here in one volume so that you needn't go searching for scattered remnants of the whole.This book is one of the three greatest volumes of its kind. The other two are Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (a classic and still in print and available new at Amazon), and Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Marvin Kaye, available here only through third-party sellers now. I must confess to opening the latter late one cold night, the house still and quiet and approaching the midnight hour, then turning to a story titled "Lazurus," reading the first two pages, and thinking, "No, I'm not ready for this one this late," then closing it with a small shudder before pulling the blankets tightly around me. That's just one reason Marvin Kaye's book is worth the effort to find.

I purchased this book two years ago and I just finished it.It says 500+ stories but there is only 210 classic horror stories but what do you want for $0.49. As with all box 📦 sets you will like some better than others but that is normal for multiple story books 📚.I would highly recommend this box 📦set and various authors to readers of fantasy horror mystery novels 👍🔰. 2023 👒😀💘🏡😕

This book is so beautiful. The green is metallic and gorgeous.

The media could not be loaded. Who ever put together this expansive survey of classic horror stories clearly cared about what they were doing. A few of the stories are repeated in other Canterbury Leather-bound Classics books (such as Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, etc,) but there is enough unique material here to keep even the most avid collector of this series happy. I have almost all of their other books, and I'm VERY happy with this collection. With a well written introduction to the genre and FIFTY-FIVE(!!!) stories.. You should own this book. You. Yes.. YOU. YOU should own this book!

Good selection of stories one of my favorite stories of the book is Kerfol by Edith Wharton! I love the look of the book it’s quite a sturdy book it comes with a ribbon bookmark and the cover it’s just gorgeous! I really recommend getting the book you won’t regret it. Specially around this time of year when Halloween is approaching! It helps to get into the spirit of things!

Immediately noticed the binding coming apart. It's a cool book, but it's not a great construction.Addendum: Amazon, to their credit, did replace the book with a good binding and no issues. Time will tell if it's construction holds up, but so far so good. Hopefully, this was an isolated incident. The book itself is VERY cool.

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