Description:Eight splendidly chilling tales of horror by the author of The Phantom of the Opera. Tales of macabre murders, of hauntings, of cannibalism: of a grisly gathering of armless and legless people; of a gambler who cannot lose but longs to do so; of the girl who finds herself married to the public executioner; of an appalling night in a waxworks museum; of murder at Christmas; of a husband who guillotine his wife; of a pact with the Devil; and a new twist to the story of the dreadful inn from which few travelers emerge alive.The stories collected here, most of them written in the 1920s when Leroux was at his peak, have long been unavailable, and the book is a must for all connoisseurs of the weird tale.*Introduction: The Master of the Grand Guignol*A Terrible Tale*The Mystery of the Four Husbands*The Inn of Terror*The Woman with the Velvet Collar*The Crime on Christmas Night*In Letters of Fire*The Gold Axe*The Waxwork Museum*The Real Opera GhostWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Gaston Leroux Bedside Companion: Weird Stories. To get started finding The Gaston Leroux Bedside Companion: Weird Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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160
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
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Victor Gollancz Ltd
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—
ISBN
0575028262
The Gaston Leroux Bedside Companion: Weird Stories
Description: Eight splendidly chilling tales of horror by the author of The Phantom of the Opera. Tales of macabre murders, of hauntings, of cannibalism: of a grisly gathering of armless and legless people; of a gambler who cannot lose but longs to do so; of the girl who finds herself married to the public executioner; of an appalling night in a waxworks museum; of murder at Christmas; of a husband who guillotine his wife; of a pact with the Devil; and a new twist to the story of the dreadful inn from which few travelers emerge alive.The stories collected here, most of them written in the 1920s when Leroux was at his peak, have long been unavailable, and the book is a must for all connoisseurs of the weird tale.*Introduction: The Master of the Grand Guignol*A Terrible Tale*The Mystery of the Four Husbands*The Inn of Terror*The Woman with the Velvet Collar*The Crime on Christmas Night*In Letters of Fire*The Gold Axe*The Waxwork Museum*The Real Opera GhostWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Gaston Leroux Bedside Companion: Weird Stories. To get started finding The Gaston Leroux Bedside Companion: Weird Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.