Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol.5 (Horror and Ghosts). Illustrated
This is an omnibus collection of ghost and horror stories. As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves. The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis StevensonThe Signal-Man by Charles Dickens August Heat by W. F. HarveyThe Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” by M. R. JamesThe Phantom Coach by Amelia EdwardsThe Horla by Guy de MaupassantAn Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose BierceSchalken the Painter by Sheridan Le FanuThe Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
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Fettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.
was a small man, very pale and dark, with coal-black eyes. The cut of his features gave a promise of intellect and refinement which was but feebly realised in his manners, for he proved, upon a nearer acquaintance, coarse, vulgar, and stupid.
Wolfe Macfarlane, a high favourite among all the reckless students, clever, dissipated, and unscrupulous to the last degree. He had travelled and studied abroad. His manners were agreeable and a little forward.