TWILIGHT CREATURES: 40 Stories of Vampires, Werewolves, and other Unspeakable Beings

by Martin Monreal, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells

“TWILIGHT Stories of Vampires, Werewolves and other Unspeakable Beings” features 40 absorbing and fascinating short stories and legends from around the world, some of them translated to English for the first time. Martin Monreal provides an introductory essay, which situates each story in its proper context. TWILIGHT CREATURES includes famous and lesser known stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, Noemi Sutera, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant, H. R. Haggard, Apuleius, Turgenev, H. Clifford, Baring-Gould, Saki, E. Peattie, Mary Freeman, Machen, Poe, Benson, Blackwood, Bierce, Wells, Dunsany, Conan Doyle, O’Donnell, H. James, W.W. Jacobs, Hawthorne, Stevenson, Gogol, and Chekhov, among others, plus a spooky selection of French, Eskimo, Argentine, Russian, Japanese and Chinese folktales. Explore the world of TWILIGHT CREATURES and by the time you are done reading the last piece, you might just agree with M.R. James’ view "that, humanly speaking, all these many solemn events have a meaning for us, if our limited intelligence permitted of our disintegrating it." Martin Monreal is a writer, translator and illustrator. He studied Foreign Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, and attended Pratt Institute in New York. He has published poetry and short stories in Spanish, and is the editor of MASTERS OF HORROR AND 100 Short Stories, THE CANON OF THE SHORT 100 Stories, and BEST GHOST STORIES… EVER (upcoming). CONTENTS Introduction 1. M.R. James Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance 2. J. Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla 3. Bram Stoker In the presence of Vampires (from Dracula) 4. Guy de Maupassant The Horla 5. Henry Rider Haggard Only a Dream 6. Lucius Apuleius The Corpse Watcher 7. Ivan Turgenev Clara Militch 8. Hugh Clifford A Night of Terror 9. Love Unrequited (A Werewolf Legend from France) 10. Sabine Baring-Gould Jean Werewolf 11. Saki The Wolves of Cernogratz 12. Elia W. Peattie On the Northern Ice 13. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Vacant Lot 14. Fernand D’Anglais The Dissapearance of Mr. Najh 15. Arthur Machen The White People 16. Edgard Allan Poe Metzengerstein 17. The Shroud (A Russian Folktale) 18. The Legend of Rheineck (A German Folktale) 19. Four Eskimo Folktales a. Papik, who killed his wife's brother 20. b. Artuk, who did all forbidden things 21. c. The Spirit of the Singing House 22. d. The boy from the bottom of the sea 23. Algernon Blackwood The Wendigo 24. E.F.Benson The Man Who Went too Far 25. Ambrose Bierce The Death of Halpin Frayser 26. H.G.Wells The Valley of Spiders 27. Mujina (A Japanese Legend) 28. The Story of Ming-Y (A Chinese Folktale) 29. Lord Dunsany Where the Tides Ebb and Flow 30. Arthur Conan Doyle The Horor of Heights 31. Arthur Christopher Benson Out of the Sea 32. Elliott O'Donnell Up the Nile River 33. Henry James The Turn of the Screw 34. W.W. Jacobs The Well 35. Nathaniel Hawthorne Ethan Brand 36. Robert Louis Stevenson Thrawn Janet 37. Noemí Sutera Summer 1972 38. Nikolay V. Gogol The Cloak 39. Ivan Turgenev The Old Woman 40. Anton Chekhov A Dead Body OTHER BOOKS AVAILABLE on KINDLE .The Vampire The Best Vampire Stories, Poems and 100 Texts .Best Ghost Stories Ever... and Ever and 57 Tales .On the Trail of the The Precursors of H.P.

730 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2010