About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Tales of the Dead, Shadows, Dark Matter, Bending the Landscape, Fear, Cthulhu's Dark Cults, American Gothic Tales, Dark Forces, October Dreams, Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales, Book of the Dead, Deadtime Stories, Arkham's Masters of Horror, Dark Detectives, Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror, The Sleeping and the Dead, Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow, Nameless Places, The Night Side, Dark Things, Dark Mind, Dark Heart, Over the Edge, Prime Evil, Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company, Black Thorn, White Rose, Rod Serling's Devils and Demons, Travellers by Night, Who Knocks?, Weird Tales, Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves, Weird Tales 2, Science Fiction Terror Tales, 999, Weird Tales 1, Sleep No More, Weird Tales 3, Robert Bloch's Psychos, The Unquiet Grave, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Weird Tales 4, Cthulhu's Reign, Aegri Somnia, When Evil Wakes, Evermore, Deathrealms, My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, I Eat Butterflies, Borderlands 5, Uncanny Banquet, The Book of All Flesh, In Dreams. Excerpt: Tales of the Dead was an English anthology of horror fiction, published in 1813 by the publishing house White, Cochrane and Co. The collection had its origin in Das Gespensterbuch ("The Ghost Book"), a five-volume anthology of German ghost stories. The original anthology was published in Leipzig between 1811 and 1815. The stories were compiled by Friedrich August Schulze (1770-1849), under the pen name Friedrich Laun, and Johann August Apel (1771-1816). A selection of short stories from the first two volumes received a French language translation by Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyries (1767-1846) and was published in Paris during 1812. The French title was Fantasmagoriana, ou Recueil d'Histoires d'Apparitions de Spectres, Revenans, Fantomes, etc.; traduit de l'allemand, par un Amateur. The t...