Features a collection of horror stories by a number of noted authors including Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and H.G. Wells.
A humorous retelling of the classic story recounts the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same fate.
Inspired by a traditional English ballad, this tragedy set in the deep South of the U.S. features two sweethearts whose love is interrupted by a hunting accident.
the letters of Pliny the Younger on the eruption of Vesuvius
Moser, Barry
2007
Describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the survival of letters written by Pliny the Younger; profiles the lives of Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, and Tacitus; and contains English translations of the two letters which chronicle the events surrounding the eruption and the death of Pliny the Elder, accompanied by reproductions of relief engravings by Barry Moser.
Features a collection of horror stories by a number of noted authors including Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and H.G. Wells.