Top 10 Short Stories, The - Supernatural

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume our safe and known world becomes intertwined with that of dark and often malevolent forces from the other side to produce stories that shape themselves into narratives that will betray us in a sentence. 01 - The Top 10 Stories - Supernatural - An Introduction 2 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 3 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant 4 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker 5 - The Open Window by Saki 6 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster 7 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 8 - The Mezzotint by M R James 9 - The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 10 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 11 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford