The Best Horror Stories: Introduction by Lynn PicknettIn this volume: The Black Cat The Tell Tale Heart The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe; The Torture Of Hope, Villiers de lIsle Adam; An Episode Of The Terror, Honor de Balzac; The Hand, Guy de Maupassant; The Withered Arm; Thomas Hardy; The Idiots, Joseph Conrad; The Bird, Thomas Burke; The Terror, Arthur Machen; Lot No. 249, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Apprentice, Hilaire Belloc; The Sentence, J. Kaden Bandrowski; The Killers, Ernest Hemingway;