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50 Worlds Greatest Horror Stories
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Whether serving as cautionary tales or stories that appease the listeners thirst of the unknown, the macabre, and even the grotesque, horror fiction has been around for a long time. From stories concocted around mythical figures and legends, to those about imagined monsters under the bed and in the dark, here is a must-have edition to make your nights a little scarier. Fifty of the worlds spookiest, spine-chilling stories have been amassed in this anthology, stories about ghosts, spirits, monsters, and the undead. Read on if you have the courage, but do so at your own peril.
Whether serving as cautionary tales or stories that appease the listeners thirst of the unknown, the macabre, and even the grotesque, horror fiction has been around for a long time. From stories concocted around mythical figures and legends, to those about imagined monsters under the bed and in the dark, here is a must-have edition to make your nights a little scarier. Fifty of the worlds spookiest, spine-chilling stories have been amassed in this anthology, stories about ghosts, spirits, monsters, and the undead. Read on if you have the courage, but do so at your own peril.
432 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2019
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October 30, 2021
Well, this isn't the kind of book that will keep you awake at night or make you squirm uncomfortably before stepping inside a dark room. The horror tales in this book are all, written by authors of yore, full of thrill, shock, pathos and, sometimes, fear inducing. Not exactly the kind of fear that will send a chill down your spine, but the kind of fear that could shake your heart. It also evokes a sense of pain that would make you wish you could step inside the story and do something to prevent the characters do that stupid thing that will unleash evil upon them!
After quite a while, I was able to complete a 400+ pages book well inside a week's time. Thanks to all these classic tales, which are intriguing and unique in their own sense! A good read, indeed!
After quite a while, I was able to complete a 400+ pages book well inside a week's time. Thanks to all these classic tales, which are intriguing and unique in their own sense! A good read, indeed!
May 2, 2023
3.5 🌟
के तपाईंले यो पुस्तक पढ्नु भएको छ?
के तपाईंले कुनै पुस्तक पढे जस्तो मात्रै गर्नु भएको छ?
के तपाईंले कुनै किताब पढेर पनि बिर्सिनु भएको छ?
के तपाईंले किताब नपढे पनि पढेको सोच्नुभएको छ?
अनि कुनै किताब पढेर पनि नपढे जस्तो भएको छ??
50 World’s Greatest Horror Collection पढ्दा मलाई यस्तै प्रश्नको उत्तर जस्तो अनुभव भयो।
यो पचास कहानीहरूको संग्रह पढ्दा कति-कति बेला पढिसकेर बोरा भित्र पोको पारेको अनि कहिल्यै नखोल्ने गरी कुनै कुनामा राखेको कल्पना गर्दै पढें। कोही बेला फेरि मैले यो हरर जनरा नै पढेको हो कि के जात पढेको भन्ने अन्योलमा पर्दै पनि पढें। बहुत सकसका साथ यो कथासंग्रह पढेर सक्काएँ। ५०मा १० वटा कहानी पढे जस्तो गरें हुँला। १०-१२ वटा जति मेरो सानो बुद्धीले बुझ्न नसकेर दुई फेर पनि पढें तरै पनि बुझें भनेर यकिनका साथ भन्न म सक्ने अवस्थामा छैन।१०-१२ वटा कहानीहरू मन परेको पनि छ। सप्पै कहानी त सायद म दोहोराएर पढ्ने छैन तर कोही कथाकारको सम्झना आए वा कुनै कथा फेरी पढ्न मनलाए म फेरि यो किताबका पन्नालाई फर्काउनेछु।
अल्विदा भन्दै गर्दा यो पुस्तकलाई म यहि भन्छु,
“हामी फेरी भेट्नेछौं……..
सायद।”
केही मनपरेका कहानीहरू:
1. Anonymous - Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts
2. Ambrose Bierce- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
3. Edgar Allan Poe- The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat
4. Edith Nesbit- John Charrington’s Wedding
5. HG Wells- The Red Room
6. HP Lovecraft- The Cats of Ulthar
7. Mark Twain- Cannibalism in the Cars
8. Oscar Wilde- The Sphinx Without a Secret
9. WF Harvey- August Heat
10. WW Jacobs- The Monkey’s Paw
#happyreading
के तपाईंले यो पुस्तक पढ्नु भएको छ?
के तपाईंले कुनै पुस्तक पढे जस्तो मात्रै गर्नु भएको छ?
के तपाईंले कुनै किताब पढेर पनि बिर्सिनु भएको छ?
के तपाईंले किताब नपढे पनि पढेको सोच्नुभएको छ?
अनि कुनै किताब पढेर पनि नपढे जस्तो भएको छ??
50 World’s Greatest Horror Collection पढ्दा मलाई यस्तै प्रश्नको उत्तर जस्तो अनुभव भयो।
यो पचास कहानीहरूको संग्रह पढ्दा कति-कति बेला पढिसकेर बोरा भित्र पोको पारेको अनि कहिल्यै नखोल्ने गरी कुनै कुनामा राखेको कल्पना गर्दै पढें। कोही बेला फेरि मैले यो हरर जनरा नै पढेको हो कि के जात पढेको भन्ने अन्योलमा पर्दै पनि पढें। बहुत सकसका साथ यो कथासंग्रह पढेर सक्काएँ। ५०मा १० वटा कहानी पढे जस्तो गरें हुँला। १०-१२ वटा जति मेरो सानो बुद्धीले बुझ्न नसकेर दुई फेर पनि पढें तरै पनि बुझें भनेर यकिनका साथ भन्न म सक्ने अवस्थामा छैन।१०-१२ वटा कहानीहरू मन परेको पनि छ। सप्पै कहानी त सायद म दोहोराएर पढ्ने छैन तर कोही कथाकारको सम्झना आए वा कुनै कथा फेरी पढ्न मनलाए म फेरि यो किताबका पन्नालाई फर्काउनेछु।
अल्विदा भन्दै गर्दा यो पुस्तकलाई म यहि भन्छु,
“हामी फेरी भेट्नेछौं……..
सायद।”
केही मनपरेका कहानीहरू:
1. Anonymous - Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts
2. Ambrose Bierce- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
3. Edgar Allan Poe- The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat
4. Edith Nesbit- John Charrington’s Wedding
5. HG Wells- The Red Room
6. HP Lovecraft- The Cats of Ulthar
7. Mark Twain- Cannibalism in the Cars
8. Oscar Wilde- The Sphinx Without a Secret
9. WF Harvey- August Heat
10. WW Jacobs- The Monkey’s Paw
#happyreading
September 15, 2022
The problem with compendium of any short story collection is that many of them come out to be sub par.
This is not a horror anthology per se, many stories can be termed as intriguing, suspenseful and downright spooky. Even the ones with some amount of horror didn't scare me much and there were some I left in between because I couldn't quite grasp what the author was trying to convey.
Feeling of been there, done that.
This is not a horror anthology per se, many stories can be termed as intriguing, suspenseful and downright spooky. Even the ones with some amount of horror didn't scare me much and there were some I left in between because I couldn't quite grasp what the author was trying to convey.
Feeling of been there, done that.
April 29, 2024
Mid to low level stories I gifted this to my sister she said stories are quite normal.
January 19, 2026
Boring. I bought this thinking it’d be full-on horror… but it’s not even close.
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