Robert Louis Stevenson

Antología de cuentos de terror y horror de los mejores autores clásicos del género. Incluye "La ventana entablada", de A. Bierce; "El pozo y el péndulo", de E. A. Poe; "El conde Magnus", de M. R. James; "La casa de la pesadilla", de E. L. White; "La torcida Janet", de R. L. Stevenson; "El extraño", de H. P. Lovecraft y "Un horror tropical", de W. H. Hodgson. En la sección Aquí y ahora, se examina el lugar que ocupa el miedo en la vida de los...

A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard-but sometimes at night, it screams... This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown-out by a gust of wind-or...

Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1909, the Modern English volume of The Lock and Key Library features sixteen classic mystery and detective stories by such luminaries as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Wilkie Collins. Detective stories existed for centuries before the concept of the detective itself-amateur or professional- was fully formulated, and tales of mystery and intrigue...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Signalman by Charles Dickens, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dracula by Bram Stoker Read by: Clive Hayward, Derek Perkins and Alison Larkin Over thirty hours of great classic horror is brought to haunting new life by three A-list narrators whose performances are nothing short of electrifying. "At once terrifying and...

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death-with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they're likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that. They tell us about what happens when people find that...

This recording is the second in a new series featuring some of the greatest crime stories ever written. The Perfect Crime is written in the first person: I know I committed the perfect crime. Phoebe Wallowes, a well educated American woman, really irritates him. He also has a genuine terror that she will one day marry him. Something therefore has to be done. Sapper's Thirteen Lead Soldiers has an ingenious plot to murder Conte de Dinard at a secret...

Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Shackleton and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pause. Their stoic...