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Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning Rock Argentino, Penguin Book, Penguin Classics, Unread Books, Recommended Books To Read, The Penguin, Literature Books, Recommended Books, Book Suggestions

Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from…

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A grid of 30 covers of horror and supernatural short story collections by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.R. James, Arthur Machen, W.W. Jacobs, Robert W. Chambers, Rudyard Kipling, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Oliver Onions, Walter de la Mare, and H.P. Lovecraft. Goth Books, Book Charts, Ghostly Apparitions, Algernon Blackwood, Bizarre Books, The Tell Tale Heart, Reading List Challenge, Weird Fiction, Writer Tips

A selection of chilling and unsettling short stories, novelettes, and novellas from the golden age of horror and supernatural fiction. It includes celebrated tales of ghostly apparitions, monstrous creatures, otherworldly phenomena, and macabre predicaments. The full web version features 100 titles, each with links to free public domain texts.

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