title: Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying TRUTH! About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More
author: Joshua Gee
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  # TALES OF TERROR
  
  
  ## 16 Tales of Vampires, Ghosts, and Classic Horror
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  TALES OF TERROR  
    
  Published by Maplewood Books  
    
  Published in 2013 by Maplewood Books with new Introduction, Literary
  Chronology, Film List, and Online Resources.  
    
  All rights reserved.  
    
  
  
  _Dracula_ was first published in 1897 by Bram Stoker, _Frankenstein_ in 1818
  by Mary Shelley, _The Legend of Sleepy Hollow_ in 1820 by Washington Irving,
  _The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_ in 1886 by Robert Louis
  Stevenson, _The Invisible Man_ in 1897 by H.G. Wells, _The Raven_ in 1845 by
  Edgar Allan Poe, _The Pit and the Pendulum_ in 1842 by Edgar Allan Poe, _The
  Black Cat_ in 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe, _The Tell-Tale Heart_ in 1843 by Edgar
  Allan Poe, _The Fall of the House of Usher_ in 1839 by Edgar Allan Poe, _The
  Phantom of the Opera_ in 1910 by Gaston Leroux, _The Monkey's Paw_ in 1902 by
  W.W. Jacobs, _The Canterville Ghost_ in 1887 by Oscar Wilde, _The Turn of 