The Greatest Ghost & Horror Stories Ever Written: Volumes 1 to 7

by Leonid Andreyev, Cynthia Asquith, E.F. Benson

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!
Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities.

This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories

2774 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 15, 2019

About the author

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Андреев; 1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government. His first story published was About a Poor Student, a narrative based upon his own experiences. It was not, however, until Gorky discovered him by stories appearing in the Moscow Courier and elsewhere that Andreyevs literary career really began. His first collection of stories appeared in 1901, and sold a quarter-million copies in short time. He was hailed as a new star in Russia, where his name soon became a byword. He published his short story, In the Fog in 1902. Although he started out in the Russian vein he soon startled his readers by his eccentricities, which grew even faster than his fame. His two best known stories may be The Red Laugh (1904) and The Seven Who Were Hanged (1908). His dramas include the Symbolist plays The Life of Man (1906), Tsar Hunger (1907), Black Masks (1908), Anathema (1909) and He Who Gets Slapped (1915).

Reviews

[robyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comprehensive. It's amazing to me that there are still historical horror stories out there that haven't been anthologized over and over again. Bless this digital age for making them accessible and even popular, again.

[Ian Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read.

Most stories really good, a few I had to skip, but plenty to satisfy. It lasted me months, reading at lunch!