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"Double, double, toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldon bubble." What is more chilling and thrilling than witches, goblins, ghosts, and monsters? Darkness and danger, perhaps? Strange sounds and inexplicable events?
In this collection of frightening and mysterious tales, your imagination will be truly haunted. Suspense and horror mingle in a manner sure to send shivers along the stiffest backbone. The titles alone - "The Body Snatcher" and "Beginning With the Ears" - are enough to rekindle the imagination and inspire delicious feelings of apprehension and dread.
Watch with breathless horror as Frankenstein's monster first opens his watery yellow eyes; communicate with strange beings from another world; meet a witch who enjoys nothing more than eating the people who come to live with her; enter a manor house that is haunted by a ghost; then travel to the Arctic to see a frozen, grinning corpse you look straight in the eye. Or, if you're in a mood for something just a little less scary, read about a world of shadows in which love eventually conquers all.
These fascinating stories are told by some of the world's most acclaimed storytellers: William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, The Brothers Grimm, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and H.G. Wells. Each storyteller reveals a rare, imaginative vision.
Travel through the open doors, empty rooms, and strange passageways of this book and an extraordinary world will be revealed to you. You'll want to read these spellbinding, awe-inspiring stories and poems over and over.
- Priscilla Hawthorne, Editor
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