Name: Horror Stories: Shocking Tales of Unspeakable Terror (Arcturus Gilded Classics)
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Author: William Hope Hodgson; Ambrose Bierce; Bram Stoker; Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781398840416

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Horror Stories: Shocking Tales of Unspeakable Terror (Arcturus Gilded Classics)

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Physical Book

Author

Publisher

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 19.0 x 3.3 cm

Weight

1.05

ISBN13

9781398840416

Synopsis "Horror Stories: Shocking Tales of Unspeakable Terror (Arcturus Gilded Classics)"

Feast your eyes on this luxurious hardback anthology of 18 classic tales of horror, presented with gilded page edges, patterned endpapers and a striking, gold-embossed cover design. The 18 terrifying tales in this collection are created by some of literature's finest writers of horror, including Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, and Bram Stoker. In stories filled with death, obsession, and paranoia, you will encounter hideous demons, abandoned castles, and gruesome discoveries. So settle down and prepare to be petrified. Tales include: - The Invisible Giant by Bram Stoker- The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott- A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James- The Invisible Girl by Mary Shelley- A Dead Secret by Lafcadio Hearn- The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson- The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson- The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft- The Ghost and the Bone-setter by Sheridan Le Fanu- And more This beautiful compendium is presented with gold gilded page-edges, patterned endpapers, ivory paper and a gold-embossed cover design, making it a wonderful gift or collectible for any horror lover. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Gilded Classics presents luxury gift editions of classic works, printed on opulent ivory paper, featuring hardcover Wibalin binding, foil-embossed cover designs, beautifully designed end-papers and gilded page edges. These make perfectible collectibles for bibliophiles and lovers of classic literature.

Bram Stoker

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Abraham "Bram" Stoker (Clontarf; November 8, 1847-London; April 20, 1912) was an Irish novelist and writer, known for his novel Dracula

His early horror stories, such as "The Crystal Cup" (1872), were published by the London Society, and The Chain of Destiny in the Shamrock magazine. In 1876, while working as a civil servant, he wrote a textbook named The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879), this book was used as a reference for a long time

Being a theater critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, co-owned by the famous Gothic novelist Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the most important of his time for stories like Carmilla, about a vampire, greatly influenced Stoker when writing Dracula. Stoker's critique of the play was high praise for the performance in Hamlet by actor Henry Irving, who hired him to be his personal secretary and manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London

While working for Irving, he was a literary critic for the Daily Telegraph and wrote several novels like The Snake's Pass (1890) and Dracula (1897) and, after Irving's death in 1905, The Lady of the Shroud (1909) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

His wife was the administrator of his literary estate, and she made known works such as what would be the introduction to Dracula, the short story Dracula's Guest

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William Hope Hodgson

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He was born in 1875, son of a clergyman from Essex, and from an early age he went to sea as a crew member on merchant ships. However, Hodgson detested that life, and as soon as he had the chance, he left it to engage in other work and to write stories full of mystery, terror, and adventure, many of them set at sea, a dangerous sea filled with monstrous entities and abandoned ships. Although Hodgson's work remained forgotten for years due to his early death in France during World War I, cutting short his literary career, authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, who spoke enthusiastically about his supernatural novel The House on the Borderland (in this same collection), or Clark Ashton Smith claimed him as a master (along with Ambrose Bierce and others) of the emerging American school of Supernatural Horror.

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