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Title: The Pit and the Pendulum
Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-019-5
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 Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, his parents were itinerent actors. At the age of two he was taken into care by a wealthy tobacco exporter, John Allan, from whom the author took his middle name. His first collection of stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in 1840 and contains some of his most famous works. In his classic suspense story, The Pit and the Pendulum, which first appeared in1842, a man awakes from an unconscious state to find himself lying on his back in pitch darkness. He has no idea how he got there; his nightmare begins.

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Title: The Vampyre
Author: John Polidori (1795-1821)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-035-7
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cellophaned wrapped with 'message' envelope		 This fascinating Gothic horror story introduces us to Lord Ruvthen, the father of all vampires, and the future inspiration for Count Dracula and the whole genre of blood sucking thrillers which are still popular today. Polidori was a doctor, of Italian parentage, from Edinburgh. He travelled to Geneva with Lord Byron, but they quarrelled. Returning home, Polidori published The Vampyre in the 1819 issue of the New Monthly Magazine, pretending it was by Byron. The poet refuted it, admitting only that he had been working on a story of the same title. However Polidori's The Vampyre soon became the talk of Europe and was turned into an opera by the German composer, Heinrich Marschner.

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Title: The Body Snatcher
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-001-2
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cellophaned wrapped with 'message' envelope		 This gruesome story was first published in the Christmas issue of the Pall Mall Magazine for 1884 and, although it had been written some time earlier, Stevenson initially laid it aside "in justifiable disgust, the tale being horrid." One night Fettes, an old Scotsman at the George Inn, is shocked out of his drunkenness by the sudden appearance of a shady figure from his past, Dr Wolfe Macfarlane. The sight of Macfarlane brings back terrible memories for Fettes, in particular, the nightmarish events of that stormy night in a rustic graveyard at Glencorse.

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Title: The Judge's House
Author: Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
Series: Suspense
ISBN: 1-86092-008-x
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cellophaned wrapped with 'message' envelope		 Famous as the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, the master of terror, was born in Dublin. He could neither stand nor walk until the age of seven but later overcame his physical weaknesses as an outstanding athlete. He worked as a civil servant in Dublin and afterwards as a personal assistant to the celebrated actor, Sir Henry Irving. In The Judge's House a scholar seeking solitide finds himself in the rustic village of Benchurch. Ignoring the warnings of terrified locals he wilfully takes up residence in a sinister house, once the property of an infamous and evil judge.

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