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The Classic Horror Collection - Volume I - The Island of Doctor Moreau - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - The Call of Cthulhu - The Tell-Tale Heart - Unabridged

By H.G. Wells & Edgar Allan Poe &
The Classic Horror Collection - Volume I - The Island of Doctor Moreau - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - The Call of Cthulhu - The Tell-Tale Heart - Unabridged by H.G. Wells & Edgar Allan Poe &  digital book - Fable

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Ever since man first began to tell stories - often crouched around a campfire late at night - storytellers have tried to send a chill up the spine of their listeners; to delight, thrill and even terrify their audience with stories of ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. To this day, some of the most popular stories ever written were created to give readers a sense of dread, excitement and wonder at the unknown.  

Collected here are four of the world's best-known and beloved tales of horror, suspense and terror: H.G. Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."  

We begin on a lonely island where a shipwrecked young seaman discovers that the doctor in charge of this strange land has been performing unspeakable experiments on the jungle animals...transforming them into something almost human. Almost. H.G. Wells' tale of a mad doctor run amok begins this journey of horror and intrigue.  

Next we move to London, where we find the kindly Dr. Jekyll - a brilliant man of science - who has been experimenting with a mood-altering drug that causes him to transform into a murderous brute. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of tapping into our dark, inner selves has become a favorite of the genre.  

Then, a truly bizarre story of an underwater leviathan; a massive, mythical beast whose ascension from the depths could mean the end of life as we know it. The one-and-only H.P. Lovecraft brings us the twisted tale of Cthulhu, terror of the ancient world.  

And finally, we find ourselves in the world of Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of Horror, as he spins the tale of a late night murder, an ingenious cover-up of the crime...and an unexpected and horrifying revelation!  

Collected together for the first time, here are four stories of murder, mayhem and malevolence, all presented in their original and unabridged formats.

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About H.G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and influential writers of the late 19th and early 20th century, producing during his lifetime some of the most revered and best-selling books of the science fiction genre earning himself the title of "The Father of Science Fiction."More than simply a spinner of futuristic tales, Wells was also a fierce and incisive social critic. His works reflect an astonishing foresight, as Wells predicted many of the century's greatest innovations, including space travel, the dominance of 20th century aircraft, tank warfare, satellite television, nuclear weapons and the Internet. His works often touched on the fantastical as well, dealing with such topics as time travel, alien invasion, invisibility and bioengineering.An outspoken socialist and pacifist, Wells later turned his attention to politics and his later works are more the work of a journalist and activist than that of a creator of fiction.His best known works remain his "Scientific Romances," which include The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and perhaps the most famous work of science fiction ever created - The War of the Worlds.Wells' works have been adapted into radio dramas, stage productions and dozens of motion pictures.H.G. Wells died on August 13, 1946 at the age of 79. He had requested that his epitaph read:"I told you so. You damned fools."However, upon his death, his remains were cremated and scattered into the English Channel.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth ("Eliza") Poe. A year after his birth, Poe's father abandoned the family and his mother died soon thereafter. Poe was subsequently taken in (though not formally adopted) by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia (thus providing him with a middle name). Poe had a tense relationship with his foster family, often arguing with John Allan over finances. Poe attempted to become a soldier, enlisting in 1827 under an alias, but he was forced to leave cadet training at West Point and began concentrating more heavily on his writing. Poe's earliest stories were published anonymously in 1827 but soon after leaving the military, he began publishing works under his own name and contributing articles on literary criticism to local journals and newspapers. In his brief but prolific career, he produced dozens of short stories, poems and essays. He migrated from city to city, living at times in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City.In 1836, Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, who died of tuberculosis eleven years later. Poe would use Virginia and her death as the inspiration for many of his dark tales of loss and yearning.Poe was known for his macabre and morbid fiction, his short stories and poems often featuring haunted characters, cursed houses, murder, mayhem and often gory and disturbing assaults. He is also known as the inventor of "detective fiction" for his creation of the Sherlock Holmes prototype C. Auguste Dupin. A lifelong alcoholic who often suffered from severe bouts of depression and mental illness, Poe was found wandering about the streets of Baltimore on October 3, 1849 and was brought to Washington Medical Hospital where he died four days later. His cause of death has been widely speculated upon as being from liver failure, cholera, meningitis, syphilis or, possibly, a combination of factors. Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most celebrated and widely-read authors and his works have been adapted into dozens of films and dramatic productions.

H.P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer of strange, graphic and bizarrely imaginative fantasy and science fiction stories. Born into a prosperous family in Provincetown, Rhode Island, Lovecraft and his family suffered a series of tragedies - including the institutionalization and death of his father - that forced Lovecraft and his mother to move in with his maternal grandparents and rely on them for financial support. Lovecraft's education was spotty, but he evinced a strong attraction to literature. He began writing early - the first story in this volume - "The Beast in the Cave" - was written when Lovecraft was fourteen - and showed a strong interest in the sciences as well, including anatomy, chemistry and astronomy. He was a determined and persistent letter-writer, often penning angry screeds to various magazines that contained strong criticisms of the contributing authors (who often feuded with him in print). His notoriety from these efforts would eventually lead Lovecraft to become chairman of the United Amateur Press Association and encouraged him to write more fiction himself. Lovecraft began life as a traditional conservative and was an avowed racist early in his career. But the Great Depression turned him into a socialist who was so far left in his political beliefs that he viewed Franklin Roosevelt as insufficiently progressive. Following the death of his mother in 1919 (she suffered from various mental illnesses), Lovecraft began churning out short fiction in earnest, forming a long association with the magazine Weird Stories. He never enjoyed any real financial success for his writing during his lifetime, however, and died in relative obscurity of cancer in 1937. His work was critically re-examined during the 1970's and he has since been celebrated as one of the most imaginative and innovative science fiction writers in history.

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