I should point out that although there is no active table of contents showing in the Go To menu, there is actually one here. To access this all you need to do is turn back the page from the first tale here, and you will find it. This does help, most especially if you are looking for a particular tale here, or wish to read them in a different order.
With some people only reading the latest in ghost stories and the horror genre they are missing out on a lot, thus not realising where certain stories come from, or what inspired them, so hopefully this book will educate them in some ways. People also at times tend to think that you have to have spooks flying around a house or other such elements, missing out on the subtleties and terrors that can be created with atmosphere and by psychological means, and so there are a lot of stories here that are really quite subtle, and at times slightly ambiguous, all of which is put to great effect.
As to the title of this anthology there can obviously be some debate over whether we have the greatest in the English language here, but as this is the first volume we don’t know what other tales will be on offer in forthcoming editions, so I would advise you to take the title of this with some caution. After all many, including myself would argue that the M. R. James’ tale that we are presented with early on, is not his very best.
Obviously, with any collection such as this, a lot of us will already have read many of the stories herein, but it isn’t likely that you have read them all before, especially as some don’t normally crop up in anthologies, due to their length, and a few although great, have been unfairly overlooked over the years.
If you want some great spooky entertainment then you can’t really go wrong if you lower the lights, get cosy, and start reading this collection of fantastic stories, which have been admired by many over the years, and are still enjoyed and admired by many these days.
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![The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (The Dunwich Horror, The Tell-Tale Heart, Green Tea, The Monkey's Paw, The Willows, The Shadows on the Wall, and many more!) by [M. R. James, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Franz Kafka, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Walter De La Mare, Vernon Lee, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, F. Marion Crawford, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Onions, Clark Ashton Smith, John Metcalfe, Leonid Andreyev, Robert E. Howard]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41lYcxEQSvL._SY346_.jpg)
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