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The best horror stories

by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, John Keir Cross, Edgar Allan Poe, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Burke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, A. E. Coppard, Dorothy L. Sayers, Cornell Woolrich, Geoffrey Household, Graham Greene, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Collier, Robert Silverberg, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Roald Dahl, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, David Fletcher · 1990

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[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski -- Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard -- Cinci / Luigi Pirandello -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich -- Taboo / Geoffrey Household -- A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene -- The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The veld / Ray Bradbury -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg -- [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- [Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W) / Roald Dahl -- Robert / Stanley Ellin -- The question / Stanley Ellin -- The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier -- Corabella / David Fletcher.

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