The Great Horror and Fantasy Collection: Boxed Set (Great Reads Box Set) - Softcover

Authors, Various; Collins, Wilkie; Kafka, Franz; Lovecraft, H P; Stoker, Bram; Allan Poe, Edgar; James, Henry; Shelley, Mary; Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789508312 ISBN 13: 9781789508314

Publisher: Arcturus Editions, 2020

Synopsis

This boxset contains 8 terrifying and entertaining horror and fantasy novels:
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Lovecraft Compendium by H. P. Lovecraft
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Classic Tales of Horror by Edgar Allan Poe
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

About this title

About the Authors

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was born in Dublin in Ireland. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Stoker was inspired to write Dracula when he met Armin Vámbéery, an Hungarian writer, who told Stoker tales of the Carpathian Mountains. This inspired Stoker to study European folklore and the history of vampires.

Mary Shelley was only eighteen when Lord Byron challenged a group of friends to write the best horror story. She fleshed out her original and this was accepted for publication when she was just twenty. Shelley wrote several novels after Frankenstein but none of them has stood the test of time, although in her lifetime she was taken seriously as a writer, especially of biographies. She died in 1851, thirty years after the tragic early death of her husband Percy.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish writer. His most famous works include 'Treasure Island' (1883) and 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' (1886).

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcturus Editions
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789508312
• ISBN 13: 9781789508314
• Binding: Paperback