Short Story Anthologies, Horror
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Overview
Fascinated by the theme of replication of human features, which he believes is both perplexing and frightening, one of the world's experts on horror literature, has collected for the first time 21 tales of self-duplication and the inanimate coming to life, including stories by Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edgar Allan Poe, among others.TOC:
Introduction
By Leonard Wolf
The Double Knight
By Theophile Gautier
The Sand-man
By E. T. A. Hoffmann
William Wilson
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Crooked Mirror (A Christmas Story)
By Anton Chekhov
The Dream of Duncan Parrenness
By Rudyard Kipling
The Porcelain Doll
By Leo Tolstoy
The Jolly Corner
By Henry James
Man-Size in Marble
By E. Nesbit
Excerpt from The Student of Prague, Chapter IX
By Hans Heinz Ewers
Morlvera
By Saki (H. H. Munro)
The Terror of the Twins
By Algernon Blackwood
Waxworks
By W. L. George
The Scar
By Ramsey Campbell
The Ghost of Me
By Anthony Boucher
Sweets to the Sweet
By Robert Bloch
The Puppets
By Francis King
The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy
By Gerald Kersh
The Dolls' Room
By Merce Rodoreda
The Doll Queen
By Carlos Fuentes
The Doll
By Joyce Carol Oates
The Dummy
By Susan Sontag
Book Details
Published
February 7, 2007
Publisher
Newmarket Press,U.S.
Pages
209
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781557042453