{"product_id":"great-tales-of-terror-and-the-supernatural-the-modern-library","title":"Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (The Modern Library)","description":"xix, 1034 pp. Edited by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise. When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe (\"The Black Cat\"), Wilkie Collins (\"A Terribly Strange Bed\"), Henry James (\"Sir Edmund Orme\"), Guy de Maupassant (\"Was It a Dream?\"), O. Henry (\"The Furnished Room\"), Rudyard Kipling (\"They\"), and H.G. Wells (\"Pollock and the Porroh Man\"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood (\"Ancient Sorceries\"), Walter de la Mare (\"Out of the Deep\"), E.M. Forster (\"The Celestial Omnibus\"), Isak Dinesen (\"The Sailor-Boys Tale\"), H.P. Lovecraft (\"The Dunwich Horror\"), Dorothy L. Sayers (\"Suspicion\"), and Ernest Hemingway (\"The Killers\"). \"There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction,\" wrote the Saturday Review. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise. CONTENTS: La Grande Breteche; The Black Cat; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; A Terribly Strange Bed; The Boarded Window; The Three Strangers; The Interruption; Pollock and the Porroh Man; The Sea Raiders; Sredni Vashtar; Moonlight Sonata; Silent Snow, Secret Snow; Suspicion; The Most Dangerous Game; Leiningen versus the Ants; The Gentleman from America; A Rose for Emily; The Killers; Back or Christmas; Taboo; The Haunters and the Haunted, or, the House and the Brain; Rappaccini's Daughter; The Trial for Murder; Green Tea; What Was It?; Sir Edmund Orme; The Horla; Was It a Dream?; The Screaming Skull; The Furnished Room; Casting the Runes; Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; Afterward; The Monkey's Paw; The Great God Pan; How Love Came to Professor Guildea; The Return of Imray; \"They\"; Lukundoo; Caterpillars; Mrs.  Amworth; Ancient Sorceries; Confession; The Open Window; The Beckoning Fair One; Out of the Deep; Adam and Eve and Pinch Me; The Celestial Omnibus; The Ghost Ship; The Sailor-Boy's Tale; The Rats in the Walls; The Dunwich Horror; Acknowledgments.","brand":"The Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40033161543750,"sku":"2325047","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2325047.jpg?v=1652151084","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/great-tales-of-terror-and-the-supernatural-the-modern-library","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}