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This fine collection of stories straddles the thin border between the territory of ordinary anxiety and that of existential nightmare. These tales of dread and darkness do not feature the traditional demons that haunt country houses, but rather characters who inhabit the familiar scenes of everyday life. These are tales of ordinary people who all have one thing in common - at some point in their lives reality turned strange, and the unthinkabl...

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With its aura of the uncanny and the supernatural, this is a gathering, for the first time in English, of the best 19th century French fantastic tales--the perfect vehicle for exploring forbidden themes and the dark, irrational side of the human psyche. By such authors as Balzac, Dumas, Verne, Nodier, Merimee, Gautier, Schwob, Nerval, l'Isle-Adam, and Maupassant.