The Nightmare Reader
by Peter Haining , Matthew Gregory Lewis , Mary Shelley , Washington Irving , Thomas De Quincey , Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton , Edgar Allan Poe , Sheridan Le Fanu , C.F. Hoffman , Lafcadio Hearn , Елена Петровна Блаватская , Ambrose Bierce , Arthur Machen , Lord Dunsany , Arthur Conan Doyle , Aleister Crowley , H. G. Wells , Montague Rhodes James , Montague Summers , H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth , John Gawsworth , Algernon Blackwood , Robert Bloch , Ray Bradbury , Arthur C. Clarke
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Introduction. What hath light wrought? / by Isaac Asimov
Visitation. The midnight embrace / by Matthew Lewis
The Frankenstein theme. The transformation / by Mary Shelley
Dream state. The bold dragoon / by Washington Irving
Drug addiction. Levana and our ladies of sorrow / by Thomas de Quincey
Sorcery. The magician / by Lord Lytton
Morphia influence. [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) / by Edgar Allan Poe
Schizophrenia. The drunkard's dream / by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Claustrophobia. The man in the reservoir / by C.F. Hoffman
The blood drinker. Haceldama / by Lafcadio Hearn
Hallucination. The ensouled violin / by Madame Blavatsky
Morbidity. Visions of the night / by Ambrose Bierce
The legendary dream. The soldier's rest / by Arthur Machen
A trauma of war. The bureau d'échange de Maux / by Lord Dunsany
Psychic experience. The silver mirror / by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The occultist. The testament of Magdalen Blair / by Aleister Crowley
Visionary. A dream of Armageddon / by H.G. Wells
Ghostly visitation. A school story / by M.R. James
Obsession. The grimoire / by Montague Summers
Recluse. The evil clergyman / by H.P. Lovecraft
Nightmare. The slayers and the slain / by August Derleth
Fear of illness. The shifting growth / by John Gawsworth
Arachnophobia. Along came a spider / by Algernon Blackwood
Night fantasy. The head hunter / by Robert Bloch
A waking dream. The haunting of the new / by Ray Bradbury
The future. The curse / by Arthur C. Clarke
