Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural - Michael Moorcock

Great short stories by Balzac and Poe, Hardy and Saki, Hawthorne, Dickens, Maupassant, O. Henry, Wharton, Kipling, to name a few. A classic collection with a short intro by Michael Moorcock whose words sum up these stories best:

"The terror tale describes both our profound human curiosity and our brute fear of the unknown."

Mysteries without detectives. These are ones to read multiple times. Soothing at bedtime when the night is dark.