Classic Tales of Horror

by H.G. Wells, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Genres: Horror, Anthologies

842 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons, Wells was an unabashed advocate of free (as opposed to "indiscriminate") love. He continued to openly have extra-marital liaisons, most famously with Margaret Sanger, and a ten-year relationship with the author Rebecca West, who had one of his two out-of-wedlock children. A one-time member of the Fabian Society, Wells sought active change. His 100 books included many novels, as well as nonfiction, such as A Modern Utopia (1905), The Outline of History (1920), A Short History of the World (1922), The Shape of Things to Come (1933), and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932). One of his booklets was Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. Although Wells toyed briefly with the idea of a "divine will" in his book, God the Invisible King (1917), it was a temporary aberration. Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism.

He was also an outspoken socialist. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Fathers of Science Fiction". D. 1946.

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Reviews

[Bookworm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic tales that never grow old. A nice change from contemporary horror.

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entertaining horror listening 🎶🔰

I purchased this book two years ago and I just finished it.

It says 500+ stories but there is only 210 classic horror stories but what do you want for $0.49. As with all box 📦 sets you will like some better than others but that is normal for multiple story books 📚.

I would highly recommend this box 📦set and various authors to readers of fantasy horror mystery novels 👍🔰. 2023 👒😀💘🏡😕

[Clan Dragonborn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I feel, weirdly, ripped off...

I bought the compendium of horror stories because of a recommendation -.a.glowing review of the Edith Wharton gothic short story, "Kerfol". I searched for where I could read it, and this anthology came up as containing it. Several reviewers of this book even mention the story specifically in their review of it
However, after purchasing and downloading the Kindle version, I spent the nest 15 minutes digging through the various indices in vain - no " Kerfol". As the compendium has 7 volumes and 800+ pages, with seven different locations for lists of titles, I kept assuming I had missed it. However, that was not the case.

It was during this increasingly oh frustrated search that I then noticed the book's subtitle - "Classic Tales.of Horror - 500+ Stories".
Since there are only 210 titles in the kindle edition, I'm assuming I'm missing around 300 stories, of which I assume "Kerfol" is a part.

It seems ungrateful to complain that the 210 storied I purchased for $0.49 is not actually 500+ stories, or that it didn't contain the INE I bought the anthology for in the first place...but there it is.
May no INE else make the same mistake I did.

[Ron Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book should be read by anyone interested in early horror to the 1930's. The authors here are great writers so no surprise that these stories are atmospheric, shiver inducing, narrator questioning, and character defined. There are some I like more than others but all are worth reading. Some of these are genre changing and introduced new terrors that had never been imagined. Come find out what makes you stay awake.

[Rod Little · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic horror. What's not to like?

[Stephanie Twine-Haig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic horror used to read short stories on a community radio station

[Swagking1997 · Rating 5 out of 5]

a good for people

[Tinkerbell · Rating 3 out of 5]

awesome, fabulous, and creepy