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The Dark Descent

David G. Hartwell; Stephen King; John Collier; Montague Rhodes James; Lucy Clifford; Russell Kirk; H.P. Lovecraft; Shirley Jackson; Harlan Ellison; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Ray Bradbury; Michael Shea; Edith Nesbit; Karl Edward Wagner; Robert Aickman; Fritz Leiber; Robert Bloch; Charles L. Grant; Manly Wade Wellman; Thomas M. Disch; Theodore Sturgeon; Clive Barker; Edgar Allan Poe; Sheridan Le Fanu; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; William Faulkner; Robert Smythe Hichens; Richard Matheson; Joanna Russ; Dennis Etchison; D. H. Lawrence; Tanith Lee; Flannery O'Connor; Ramsey Campbell; Henry James; Gene Wolfe; Charles Dickens; Joyce Carol Oates; Walter De la Mare; Ivan Turguenev; Robert Chambers; Oliver Onions; Fitz-James O'Brien; Ambrose Bierce; Edith Wharton; Algernon Blackwood; Philip K. Dick

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