From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann's nightmarish The Sandman , Poe's terrifying The Tell-Tale Heart and Dickens' chilling ghost story The Signal-Man , and relatively unknown works from celebrated writers including Honore de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson, alongside lesser-known contributors. Each story comes with a fascinating introduction by Calvino.
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- ISBN
9780141190129
- Published
- May 28th 2009 by Penguin Books Ltd
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 608
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129