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AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 05:14 PM Dec 2020

The best horror e-book (or hardcopy) that I've ever owned...

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is called the, "HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories."

It's over 80 thousand e-book pages (yes, 80,000), cost 99 cents, and has the best classic horror tales ever written, including Dracula and Frankenstein, all the way up to Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.

The Table of Contents is HUGE!!!

Also, the introduction was written by H. P. Lovecraft himself.

Unfortunately, none of the new horror masters are in it, and doubly unfortunate, I don't know if anyone else sells it except Apple.

For 99 cents, it just might be worth buying an old iPod Touch just to read it.
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The best horror e-book (or hardcopy) that I've ever owned... (Original Post) AmyStrange Dec 2020 OP
H.P. Lovecraft's intro on horror fiction exboyfil Dec 2020 #1
I'm glad it's available on Amazon too, and... AmyStrange Dec 2020 #2
Because it is still under copyright exboyfil Dec 2020 #3
That makes sense... AmyStrange Dec 2020 #4

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
1. H.P. Lovecraft's intro on horror fiction
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 05:34 PM
Dec 2020

Is a classic of scholarship for the genre. Thanks for the suggestion. I will get a copy.

It is available on Amazon as well.

Over 20 Poe stories, Henry James, Blackwood, some Lovecraft, MR James, Hawthorne, Bierce, Shelley, and Stoker to just name a few.

An incredible amount of the key horror stories from the 18th to the early 20th century.

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
2. I'm glad it's available on Amazon too, and...
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 05:41 PM
Dec 2020

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thank you for sharing that info.

The only thing I can't find is the Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

In my opinion, it's definitely a classic in the ghost story genre.
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exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
3. Because it is still under copyright
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 05:46 PM
Dec 2020

Check your local library. They may have an electronic copy that can be lent. My local library Overdrive account has both the audio and the e-text.

It is one of the best of all time. The grandmother of modern haunted house stories that still packs a punch.

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
4. That makes sense...
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 05:49 PM
Dec 2020

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I have my own hardcopy, but thanks for inspiring me to read it again!
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