The Grim Reaper’s Bedside Storybook

A highly unsettling collection of macabre stories in which death and the dead are key themes.

• “Moon’s Gibbet” by Egerton Castle
• “A Strange Goldfield” by Guy Boothby
• “The Withered Arm” by Thomas Hardy
• “The Pistol Shot” by Alexander Pushkin
• “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe
• “The Dead Hand” by Wilkie Collins
• “The Famous Race Between the Hearse and the Steamroller”, by Sidney Keyes
• “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
• “Nine O’Clock” by Wilkie Collins
• “The Queen of Spades” by Alexander Pushkin
• “The Other Side”, by Count Eric Stenislaus Stenbock
• “The King is Dead, Long Live the King” by Mary Coleridge
• “The Restless Dead” by Lord Halifax
• “The Dumb Man” by Sherwood Anderson
• “The Idiot” by Arnold Bennett
• “The Mortal Immortal” by Mary Shelley
• “Lost in a Pyramid” by Louisa M. Alcott
• “They” by Rudyard Kipling
• “An Idyll of London” by Beatrice Harraden
• “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
• “Senility” by Sherwood Anderson
• “The Black Ferry” by John Galt
• “The Mines of Falun” by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• “The Dead” by James Joyce
• “The Cord” by Charles Baudelaire
• “The Child with the Bread Shoes” by Théophile Gautier
• “Jenny” by Victor Hugo