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Horror Classics assembles a selection of eerie short stories and adaptations drawn from a variety of celebrated horror writers. Readers can explore Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Mummy’, H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Thing on the Doorstep’, Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Some Words with a Mummy’, and more. The collection showcases classic horror themes—mummies, cursed objects, forbidden plants, and supernatural beings—delivered in concise, atmospheric tales that reflect the voices of the genre’s pioneers.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Fiction
Authors: Tom Pomplun
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