# Classic Horror

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- Authors: [various authors](https://www.bookquiver.com/various-authors)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-14-0598-523-9
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2025-10-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Step into the terrifying world of ghostly apparitions, grotesque monsters and terrible, creeping dread – but be careful, who knows if you'll make it out alive? This collection brings together ten of the greatest literary horror stories every written, from Mary Shelley’s iconic tale of a ‘body swap’ gone wrong, to Edgar Allen Poe's terrifying account of a great family’s downfall, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s chilling description of female subjugation. A treasure trove of scares and spooks, Classic Horror: An Anthology is a timeless celebration of all that curdles the blood and goes bump in the night …