This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Horror.For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:M. R. James:- A School Story- Count Magnus- Lost Hearts- 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad"- The Rose Garden- An Episode of Cathedral History- Mr. Humphreys and his InheritanceRichard Middleton:- The Ghost Ship.- A Drama of Youth.- The New Boy.- On the Brighton Road.- A Tragedy in Little.- Sheperd's Boy.- The Passing of Edward.Robert W. Chambers:- The Messenger- The Repairer of Reputations- The Purple Emperor- Passeur- The Key to Grief- A Matter of Interest- Pompe FunèbreMary Shelley:- The Invisible Girl- The Brother and Sister- The Dream- Transformation- The Mortal Immortal- The Mourner- The Swiss PeasantWashington Irving:- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Rip Van Winkle- The Devil and Tom Walker- Christmas- Guest from Gibbet Island- The Legend of the Engulphed Convent- The Adventure of my Uncle

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.Washington Irving was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820).Richard Barham Middleton was an English poet and author, who is remembered mostly for his short ghost stories, in particular The Ghost Ship. Middleton suffered from severe depression, known as melancholia at that time. He spent the last nine months of his life in Brussels, where in December 1911 he took his life by poisoning himself with chloroform, which had been prescribed as a remedy for his condition. His literary reputation was maintained by Edgar Jepson and Arthur Machen, of whom the latter wrote an introduction to Middleton's collection The Ghost Ship and Other Stories, and later by John Gawsworth.