American Supernatural Tales

<b><b><b>A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss black sprayed edges black-stained pages and black endpapers. </b> <p/> <b>Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro. </b> <p/></b></b><i>American Supernatural Tales</i> is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights including Poe himself H. P. Lovecraft Shirley Jackson Ray Bradbury Nathaniel Hawthorne and--of course--Stephen King. This volumes also includes The Yellow Sign the most horrific story from <i>The King in Yellow</i> the classic horror collection by Robert W. Chambers featured on HBO's hit TV series <i>True Detective</i>. By turns phantasmagoric spectral and demonic this is a frighteningly good collection of stories. <p/>Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites from Mary Shelley's <i>Frankenstein</i> and Ray Russell's short story Sardonicus considered by Stephen King to be perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written to Shirley Jackson's <i>The Haunting of Hill House </i>and stories by Ray Bradbury Joyce Carol Oates Ted Klein and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror sci-fi fantasy and paranormal aficionados everywhere.