This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Horror.For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:- Edgar Allan Poe:- The Tell-Tale Heart- The Cask of Amontillado- The Masque of the Red Death- The Pit and the Pendulum- The Fall of the House of Usher- The Murders in the Rue Morgue- The Black Cat- H. P. Lovecraft:- The Call of Cthulhu- The Outsider- Pickman's Model- The Statement of Randolph Carter- The Colour out of Space- The Dunwich Horror- The Music of Erich Zann- W. W. Jacobs:- The Monkey's Paw- A Golden Venture- A Love-Knot- An Adulteration Act- Back to Back- Establishing Relations- Captain Rogers- E.T.A. Hoffmann:- The Golden Pot- The Sandman- Councillor Krespela- Automata- The Elementary Spirit- The Jesuits' Church in G--- The Story of the Hard Nut- Robert Louis Stevenson:- The Waif Woman- The Bottle Imp- Thrawn Janet- Markheim- The Body Snatcher- Olalla- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. During his career he was best known for his farcical comedies involving dockside and rural Essex characters.E. T. A. Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. Hoffmann's stories highly influenced 19th-century literature, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he spent most of his life there, and his fiction was primarily set against a New England backdrop.Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.