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After his ship springs a leak during a voyage, a sailor details the amusingly bizarre dangers that one can face when transporting a cargo of cats across the open seas. This light-hearted short story by Ambrose Bierce was originally published in The Wasp, a magazine he edited. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

A Cargo Of Cat - Short Story

William Harker is the only witness to the death of his friend, Hugh Morgan. Morgan's body suggests that he has died traumatically, but when Harker tries to explain what he saw of his friend's last moments, the men in charge of determining Morgan's cause of death find his testimony too bizarre to be true. Written by Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing" is a story of the paranormal that was once loosely adapted for an episode of the television series Masters of Horror. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Damned Thing - Short Story

Dans Morts violentes, il n'y a pas de fantômes ou de phénomènes anormaux, mais une exploration clinique de la réalité la plus crue, dont l'issue est l'insoutenable horreur de la mort. À travers les cauchemars de la guerre de Sécession, qui valent bien ceux d'Edgar Poe, Bierce porte la short story à son plus haut degré de perfection et s'affirme comme l'un des précurseurs de la littérature américaine du XXe siècle.

Morts Violentes

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Occult and Supernatural fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world.

In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of "horror", "fantasy", and elements important to other genres. The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story.

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E. F. Benson

CATERPILLARS

THE SANCTUARY

THE THING IN THE HALL

THE TERROR BY NIGHT

Ambrose Bierce

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT

Algernon Blackwood

THE WILLOWS

Ulric Daubeny

THE SUMACH

Charles Dickens

THE SIGNAL-MAN

Arthur Conan Doyle

THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX

Lord Dunsany

DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER

William Fryer Harvey

ACROSS THE MOORS

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE AMBITIOUS GUEST

W. W. Jacobs

THE MONKEY'S PAW

Henry James

THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Franz Kafka

IN THE PENAL COLONY

David H. Keller

THE THING IN THE CELLAR

Henry Kuttner

THE GRAVEYARD RATS

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

CARMILLA

H. P. Lovecraft

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

THE CALL OF CTHULHU

POLARIS

THE QUEST OF IRANON

THE RATS IN THE WALLS

A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

THE SECRET CAVE OR JOHN LEES ADVENTURE

THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

THE SHUNNED HOUSE

THE SILVER KEY

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST

THE STREET

THE TEMPLE

THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

THE TOMB

THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO

THE TREE

UNDER THE PYRAMIDS

THE VERY OLD FOLK

WHAT THE MOON BRINGS

Arthur Machen

THE GREAT GOD PAN

M. R. James

THE MEZZOTINT

THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL

THE ASH-TREE

NUMBER 13

COUNT MAGNUS

A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS

Vincent O'Sullivan

WHEN I WAS DEAD

Edgar Allan Poe

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

THE TELL-TALE HEART

Margaret Ronan

FINGER! FINGER!

Saki

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THE OPEN WINDOW

50+ Masterpieces of Occult & Supernatural Fiction - At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Willows, The Monkey’s Paw, The Turn of the Screw and others

Contes noirs

Il se passe des choses étranges dans les forêts de virginie, au fond des canyons de la sierra nevada, dans les camps des chercheurs d'or, au sein de la meilleure société de san francisco et même dans la boutique la plus ordinaire d'une bourgade du massachussets.
 Si l'on en croit ambrose bierce, on ne peut même plus se fier à la mort pour faire se tenir tranquilles les gens, qu'on les ait assassinés ou non.  et même chez les vivants, les inventeurs et les médecins vont au-delà des limites de la science, les jumeaux communiquent mystérieusement, les hypnotiseurs ont d'inquiétants pouvoirs. 
Vingt-quatre nouvelles fantastiques, drôles ou terrifiantes, inédites pour la plupart, pour poursuivre la découverte du plus acerbe des humoristes américains.

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