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Thirteen Terrifying Tales

With a Foreword by Kirsty Logan

A collection of thirteen bone-chilling tales from some of history’s masters of horror.

Thirteen Terrifying Tales is a chilling anthology that includes gruesome short stories by the best horror writers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the likes of which include M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, W.W. Jacobs, and Thomas Burke. This collection also features thoroughly disturbing ghost stories by renowned authors Edith Wharton and E. Nesbit. Between these great works of the genre, these stories cover all things malevolent, from murder, obsession, changelings, ghosts, evil shadows, to curse-bearing caterpillars in settings as varied as a grand house, an inner-city courtyard, a seaside resort, and a deserted church. Each one of these terrifying tales embodies our fear of the unknown and, in the hands of these literary titans of horror, exploits it to thrilling levels that still frighten today.


304 pages | 5.08 x 7.8 | © 2026

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Table of Contents

The Judge’s House Bram Stoker 1847-1912
The Haunter of the Dark H P Lovecraft 1890-1937
The Interruption W. W. Jacobs 1863-1943
The Black Courtyard Thomas Burke 1886-1945
The Portent of the Shadow E.Nesbit 1858-1924
The Second Generation Algernon Blackwood 1869-1951
Afterward Edith Wharton 1862-1937
Change Arthur Machen 1863-1947
Luella Miller Mary Wilkins Freeman 1852-1930
A Watcher by the Dead Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914
The Two Bottles of Relish Lord Dunsany 1878-1957
Lost Hearts M.R. James 1862-1936
Caterpillars E. F. Benson 1867-1940

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