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The Penguin Book of Horror Stories

by J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous, James Hogg, Prosper Mérimée, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, Montague Rhodes James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, Alfred McLelland Burrage, E. F. Benson, Augustus Muir, John Metcalfe, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L.P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Will F. Jenkins, J.N. Allan & Vilas Sarang

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

Description

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None of the 1 source behind this record supplied a summary of The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

Subjects: Fiction, Short Stories, hypnotism, animal magnetism, Mesmerism, Horror tales, horror, suspense

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis.

  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Animal magnetism” and “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Animal magnetism” in the subject metadata, “Hypnotism” in the subject metadata, and “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Animal magnetism”· via Open Library
    • “Mesmerism”· via Open Library
    • “Animal magnetism”· in subject
    • “Hypnotism”· in subject
    • “Mesmerism”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 5 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Open Library record

1985Penguin BooksEnglish
  • 9780140067996
  • 014006799X
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Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1835641W
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Representative plus work aggregates
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