The Nightmare Reader [Paperback]

Peter Haining (Editor)

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• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Gollancz (August 23, 1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0575017104
• ISBN-13: 978-0575017108
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Table of Contents, April 24, 2011

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John S. David (Yorktown Heights, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The nightmare reader (Hardcover)

The following stories comprise this volume;
Editor's Preface
Introduction--What Hath Light Wrought? by Isaac Asimov
1) VISITATION
The Midnight Embrace--Matthew Lewis
2) THE FRANKENSTEIN THEME
The Transformation--Mary Shelley
3) DREAM STATE
The Bold Dragoon--Washington Irving
4) DRUG ADDICTION
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow--Thomas De Quincey
5) SORCERY
The Magician--Lord Lytton
6) MORPHIA INFLUENCE
Berenice--Edgar Allen Poe
7) SCHIZOPHRENIA
The Drunkard's Dream--Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
8) CLAUSTROPHOBIA
The Man in the Reservoir--C.F.Hoffman
9) THE BLOOD DRINKER
Haceldama--Lafcadio Hearn
10)HALLUCINATION
The Ensouled Violin--Madame Blavatsky
11)MORBIDITY
Visions of the Night--Ambrose Bierce
12)THE LEGENDARY DREAM
The Soldier's Rest--Arthur Machen
13)A TRAUMA OF WAR
The Bureau d'Echange de Maux--Lord Dunsany
14)PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE
The Silver Mirror--Arthur Conan Doyle
15)THE OCCULTIST
The Testament of Magdalen Blair
16)VISIONARY
A Dream of Armageddon--H.G.Wells
17)GHOSTLY VISITATION
A School Story--M.R.James
18)OBSESSION
The Grimoire--Montague Summers
19)RECLUSE
The Evil Clergyman--H.P.Lovecraft
20)NIGHTMARE
The Slayers and the Slain--August Derleth
21)FEAR OF ILLNESS
The Shifting Growth--John Gawsworth
22)ARACHNOPHOBIA
Along Came a Spider--Algernon Blackwood
23)NIGHT FANTASY
The Head Hunter--Robert Bloch
24)A WAKING DREAM
The Haunting of the New--Ray Bradbury
25)THE FUTURE
The Curse--Arthur C.Clarke