**PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.**Step into the terrifying world of ghostly apparitions, grotesque monsters and terrible, creeping dread - but...

**PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.**Step into the terrifying world of ghostly apparitions, grotesque monsters and terrible, creeping dread - but be careful, who knows if you'll make it out alive?

This collection brings together ten of the greatest literary horror stories every written, from Mary Shelley's iconic tale of a 'body swap' gone wrong, to Edgar Allen Poe's terrifying account of a great family's downfall, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's chilling description of female subjugation. A treasure trove of scares and spooks,* Classic Horror: An Anthology * is a timeless celebration of all that curdles the blood and goes bump in the night …