Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they...

The vengeful dead, premonition, ghosts, pacts with the devil and a strange madness - these are the themes of this collection of chilling tales, written by some of the great names in English literature and masters of the genre.

Five fine ghost stories in the classic 19th century tradition. Why is the house in a small but peaceful hill station in Victorian India, difficult to let? And what disturbs the sleep in the house in Aungier Street...

Many more best-loved short stories are presented here in their entirety in this third volume of a...

Ten unabridged stories by the greatest American authors. These treasured stories from the most influential authors...

An anthology masterpiece that includes five of the greatest stories of American classic horror.

Chilling tales of cursed corpses, gloomy houses, mysterious strangers, and ghosts. Includes Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Robert Louis Stephenson.

Inaugurating Dove Audio's Modern Classics Collection - an eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years...

These five chilling nineteenth-century ghost stories from both sides of the Atlantic include some of the best in the genre.

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century.

American journalist, short story writer, and poet, Ambrose Bierce is best known for his formidably...

This collection of fourteen of Ambrose Bierce’s short stories are a good example of how his writing jars the listener out of a comfortable complacency with its improbable twists of plot, tone, or perspective.

Includes four stories: My Favorite Murder, Oil of Dog, An Imperfect Conflagration, The Hypnotist.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist.

Russell Baker is not only a very funny wirter, but a writer who recognizes and appreciates the humor in others.

Horror and the supernatural are the background of Bierce's short stories....

In Edgar Allan Poe's eerie title story, an old man's diseased eye drives the narrator to murder. But while the murderer can rid himself of the eye, he can't silence the old man's heart...