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    The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror: The top ten horror short stories of all time.
    The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror: The top ten horror short stories of all time.
    The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror: The top ten horror short stories of all time.
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    The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror: The top ten horror short stories of all time.

    Written by Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker and

    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw Parker and Christopher Ragland

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    About this audiobook

    The top 10 horror short stories of all time.

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

    In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

    The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

    Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

    Fear has a home – the human mind. Although we know the outcome will not be good, we DO open that door, we DO peek and go where others have severely warned us not to go. These ten masters of their art and craft await your presence.

    1 - The Top 10 - The Horror Story - An Introduction

    2 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

    3 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

    4 - The Horla by Guy de Maupassant

    5 - August Heat by W F Harvey

    6 - The Monkeys Paw by W W Jacobs

    7 - Lost Hearts by M R James

    8 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft

    9 - The Vampyre by John William Polidori

    10 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

    11 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateApr 19, 2021
    ISBN9781839678530
    The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror: The top ten horror short stories of all time.
    Author

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. The Raven, published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

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