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A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius.

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.

Edgar Allan Poe war Sohn eines wandernden, gesundheitlich und sozial heruntergekommenen Schauspielerpaares. Beide waren schwindsüchtig, der Vater Trinker, die Schwester schwachsinnig. Nach deren frühen Tod nahm sich ein vermögender Kaufmann aus Virginia seiner an. Nach Jahren bitterster Armut gewinnt Poe 1833 den vom "Saturday Visitor" ausgeschriebenen Literaturwettbewerb.

The powerful sense of evil – darkness, creepy hairy presences, cloaks, hoods, talons and tentacles – pervades these classic ghost stories by M.R. James. A Cambridge scholar himself, James explored what happens when academics dabble in things they don’t understand and unleash forces of which they know nothing.