The Best Horror Stories

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What makes your flesh creep? The things that do are uncountable - but very few of them have been overlooked by the distinguished company of authors represented in this volume. William Faulkner uses the private obsession of an otherwise unremarkable woman, while Patricia Highsmith delivers a powerful shock while recording what is seen by a schoolboy in the preparation of a meal. Ernest Hemingway reveals, in a few pages, the horror of a man resigned to his own murder because he is simply too tired to run any more.
But these examples are not meant to suggest boundaries - the form admits of none, though the publishers would poiht out that this is not a book of ghost stories but a book which emphasizes the horrors which lurk just below the surface of life. Many of the settings are strange, but the characters are instantly recognizable, reinforcing the chill by giving the reader an immediate connection.
The classic authors are well represented: Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy and Arthur... Tovább

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What makes your flesh creep? The things that do are uncountable - but very few of them have been overlooked by the distinguished company of authors represented in this volume. William Faulkner uses the private obsession of an otherwise unremarkable woman, while Patricia Highsmith delivers a powerful shock while recording what is seen by a schoolboy in the preparation of a meal. Ernest Hemingway reveals, in a few pages, the horror of a man resigned to his own murder because he is simply too tired to run any more.
But these examples are not meant to suggest boundaries - the form admits of none, though the publishers would poiht out that this is not a book of ghost stories but a book which emphasizes the horrors which lurk just below the surface of life. Many of the settings are strange, but the characters are instantly recognizable, reinforcing the chill by giving the reader an immediate connection.
The classic authors are well represented: Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy and Arthur Conan Doyle claim new readers each year. Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Balzac and many others who are not usually associated with horror stories demonstrate that their mastery extends, to this form, too. There are many other famous names represented -Daphne du Maurier, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Machen, Roald Dahl; and there is a careful selection of fine work by authors less well known but, plainly, masters of their craft. Vissza