"Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. 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 Frankenstein 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 The Haunting of Hill House 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. American Supernatural Tales 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. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories."--.

The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- Edward Randolph's portrait / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The death of Halpin Frayser / Ambrose Bierce -- The yellow sign / Robert W. Chambers -- The real right thing / Henry James -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The vaults of Yoh-Vombis / Clark Ashton Smith -- Old Garfield's heart / Robert E. Howard -- Black bargain / Robert Bloch -- The lonesome place / August Derleth -- The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Leiber -- The fog horn / Ray Bradbury -- A visit (The lovely house) / Shirley Jackson -- Long distance call / Richard Matheson -- The vanishing American / Charles Beaumont -- The events at Poroth Farm / T.E.D. Klein -- Night surf / Stephen King -- The late shift / Dennis Etchison -- Vastarien / Thomas Ligotti -- Endless night / Karl Edward Wagner -- The hollow man / Norman Partridge -- Last call for the Sons of Shock / David J. Schow -- Demon / Joyce Carol Oates -- In the water works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888) / Caitlin R. Kiernan.