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    The Macabre Megapack: 25 Lost Tales from the Golden Age
    The Macabre Megapack: 25 Lost Tales from the Golden Age
    The Macabre Megapack: 25 Lost Tales from the Golden Age
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    The Macabre Megapack: 25 Lost Tales from the Golden Age

    By Erckman-Chatrian, Villiers de L’isle-Adams, Lafcadio Hearn and

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    Editor Duane Parsons has assembled a treasure-trove of rare macabre stories for lovers of classic fantasy and horror. From ghosts of mind and spirit to exotic paranormal tales, each story in this volume has never before appeared in an anthology. Included are:


    The Silent Man, by Henry Fothergill Chorley

    The Strange Ormonds, by Leitch Ritchie

    The Mysterious Wedding: A Danish Story, by Heinrich Steffans

    The Burial by Fire, by Louisa Medina Hamblin

    The Vampyre, by Elizabeth Ellet

    The Sleepless Woman, by William Jerdan

    A Peep At Death, by Peter Von Geist

    Killcrop the Changeling, by Richard Thompson

    Carl Bluven and the Strange Mariner, by Henry David Inglis

    The Prediction, by George Henry Borrow

    The Story of the Unfinished Picture, by Charles Hooten

    Eule: The Emperor’s Dwarf, by John Rutter Chorley

    The Green Huntsman, by Joseph Holt Ingraham

    A Revelation of a Previous Life, by Nathaniel Parker Willis

    Moods of the Mind: The Old Portrait, by Emma Embury

    A Night on the Enchanted Mountain, by Charles Fenno Hoffman

    The Living Apparition, by G.P.R. James

    The Three Souls, by Alexander Chatrian and Emile Erckmann

    The Death Watch, by Luise Muhlback

    An Evening of Lucy Ashton’s, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

    The Haunted Homestead, by Henry William Herbert

    The Withered Man, by William Leete Stone

    La Malroche, by Louisa Stuart Costello

    The Three Visits, by Auguste Vitu

    Lieutenant Castenac, by Erckman-Chatrian

    Torture by Hope, by Villiers de L’isle-Adams

    The Black Cupid, by Lafcadio Hearn

    The Bundle of Letters, by Moritz Jokai

    Nissa, by Albert Delpit

    The Dream, by John Galt


    And don't forget to search for "Megapack" in this ebook store for other volumes in the series, covering such subjects as ghost stories, vampire stories, science fiction, horror, adventure, and much, much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 14, 2012
    ISBN9781434448286
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