Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+, Dust Jacket: Very Good. 1983. Beaufort Books. 1st Edition.

EARLY SCIENCE FICTION STORIES TELL OF ROBOTS, NATURAL DISASTERS, AND INVISIBLE CREATURE, IMMORTALITY AND TIME TRAVEL.

The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving --
El verdugo / Honoré de Balzac --
The story of the Greek slave / Captain Marryat --
The iron shroud / William Mudford --
Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan LeFanu --
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
The doom of the Griffiths / Mrs. Gaskell --
Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford --
Torture by hope / Villiers de L'Isle-Adam --
The diamond necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling --
Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Sleepyhead / Anton Chekov --
His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow --
The gravedigger's daughter / Léopold von Sacher-Masoch --
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
Vengeance / Lorimer Stoddard --
Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin --
The squaw / Bram Stoker --
A dreadful night / Edwin L. Arnold --
The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram --
Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells --
The story of the Brazilian cat / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The dead smile / F. Marion Crawford --
A game of chess / Robert Barr.