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First published in 1981 under the title ''The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural'', this GenreAnthology was edited by Creator/BillPronzini, Creator/MartinHGreenberg, and Creator/BarryNMalzberg. It was [[OrwellianRetcon republished under several different titles]], starting with ''Great Tales of Horror & the Supernatural'' in 1985, ''Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural'' and ''The Giant Book of Horror Stories'' in 1991, and ''Masters of Horror & the Supernatural: The Great Tales'' in 2010.
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!!Forty-one works have been reprinted in ''Masters of Horror and the Supernatural: The Great Tales'':
* Introduction by Creator/StephenKing
[[index]]
* "Literature/HopFrog" by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe (1849)
* "Literature/RappaccinisDaughter" by Creator/NathanielHawthorne (1844)
* "Literature/SquireTobysWill" by Creator/JSheridanLeFanu (1868)
* "Literature/TheSquaw" by Creator/BramStoker (1893)
* "Literature/TheJollyCorner" by Creator/HenryJames (1908)
* "[[Literature/ManOverboard Man Overboard!]]" by Creator/WinstonChurchill (1899) ([[https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchill-fiction-man-overboard can be read here]])
* "Literature/TheHand" by Creator/TheodoreDreiser (1919)
* "Literature/TheValleyOfSpiders" by Creator/HGWells (1903)
* "Literature/TheMiddleToeOfTheRightFoot" by Creator/AmbroseBierce (1890)
* "[[Literature/PickmansModel Pickman's Model]]" by Creator/HPLovecraft (1927)
* "[[Literature/YoursTrulyJackTheRipper Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper]]" by Creator/RobertBloch (1943)
* "Literature/TheScreamingLaugh" by Creator/CornellWollrich (1938)
* "Literature/ARoseForEmily" by Creator/WilliamFaulkner (1930)
* "[[Literature/BiancasHands Bianca's Hands]]" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1947)
* "Literature/TheGirlWithTheHungryEyes" by Creator/FritzLeiber (1949)
* "Literature/ShutAFinalDoor" by Creator/TrumanCapote (1947)
* "Literature/ComeAndGoMad" by Creator/FredericBrown (1949)
* "Literature/TheScarletKing" by Creator/EvanHunter (1954)
* "{{Literature/Sticks}}" by Creator/KarlEdwardWagner (1974)
* "{{Literature/Sardonicus}}" by Creator/RayRussell (1961)
* "[[Literature/ATeachersRewards A Teacher's Rewards]]" by Creator/RobertPhillips (1970)
* "Literature/TheRoaches" by Creator/ThomasMDisch (1965)
* "Literature/TheJam" by Creator/HenrySlesar (1958)
* "Literature/BlackWind" by Creator/BillPronzini (1979)
* "Literature/TheRoadToMictlantecutli" by Creator/AdobeJames (1965)
* "{{Literature/Passengers}}" by Creator/RobertSilverberg (1968)
* "Literature/TheRoadToMictlantecutli" by Creator/AdobeJames (1965)
* "Literature/TheExplosivesExpert" by Creator/JohnLutz (1967)
* "Literature/CallFirst" by Creator/RamseyCampbell (1975)
* "Literature/TheFly1952" by Creator/ArthurPorges (1952)
* "{{Literature/Namesake}}" by Creator/ElizabethMorton (1981)
* "{{Literature/Camps}}" by Creator/JackDann (1979)
* "Literature/YouKnowWillie" by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell (1957)
* "Literature/TheMindworm" by Creator/CMKornbluth (1950)
* "{{Literature/Warm}}" by Creator/RobertShckley (1953)
* "{{Literature/Transfer}}" by Creator/BarryNMalzberg (1975)
* "Literature/TheDoll1980" by Creator/JoyceCarolOates (1980)
* "Literature/IfDamonComes" by Creator/CharlesLGrant (1978)
* "Literature/MassWithoutVoices" by Creator/ArthurLSamuels (1979)
* "Literature/TheOblongRoom" by Creator/EdwardSHoch (1967)
* "Literature/TheParty" by Creator/WilliamFNolan (1967)
* "Literature/TheCrate" by Creator/StephenKing (1979)
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!!Tropes appearing in this anthology:
* AdvertisingByAssociation: Creator/StephenKing, one of the biggest names in the {{Horror}} genre, wrote the introduction, and this gets advertised on every front cover.
* {{Doorstopper}}: This {{Anthology}} of {{Horror}} and SupernaturalFiction has just under 600 pages, collecting between forty-one and thirty-eight short works, mostly of ShortStory length.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The 1991 ''Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural'' cover has a large eye (including eyelids and eyelashes) set into in the palm of a human hand.
* GenreAnthology: This anthology is focused on SupernaturalFiction.
* HollywoodDrowning: "[[Literature/ManOverboard Man Overboard!]]", a ShortStory by Creator/WinstonChurchill, the [[TheProtagonist viewpoint character]] falls off a large ocean liner and is abandoned in the Red Sea. Exhausted and disheartened by trying to swim for hours, he tries to let himself sink to his death, but instinct takes over and forces him back to the surface.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: The original front cover features a deep red background, grey text for ''The Arbor House Treasury'', bright yellow text for ''of Horror and the Supernatural'', and white text when listing the editor names.
* TheNamesake: "[[Literature/ManOverboard Man Overboard!]]", a ShortStory by Creator/WinstonChurchill, follows the story of a man who falls overboard. But nobody calls out the warning because the music and singing on the ship is too loud to notice his cries for help.
* OneWordTitle:
** "{{Literature/Sticks}}", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/KarlEdwardWagner.
** "{{Literature/Sardonicus}}", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/RayRussell.
** "{{Literature/Passengers}}", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertSilverberg.
** "{{Literature/Namesake}}", a ShortStory by Creator/ElizabethMorton.
** "{{Literature/Camps}}", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/JackDann.
** "{{Literature/Warm}}", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertShckley.
** "{{Literature/Transfer}}", a ShortStory by Creator/BarryNMalzberg.
* ShoutOut:
** The Creator/MagpieBooks cover (titled ''The Giant Book of Horror Stories'') has an image of Cerberus from ClassicalMythology.
** "[[Literature/ManOverboard Man Overboard!]]", a ShortStory by Creator/WinstonChurchill, name-drops and includes a few lines from "The Rowdy Dowdy Boys".
* ThreateningShark: After [[DrivenToSuicide trying to drown himself]], the [[TheProtagonist main character]] begs for a way to die. The story ends by implying he will be eaten by a shark.
--> "Upright in the water, fifty yards away, was a black triangular object. It was a fin. It approached him slowly. His last appeal had been heard."
* {{Tagline}}: "41 Tales of Horror by Classic and Contemporary Masters" from the 1991 ''Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural'' cover.
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!!Forty-one works have been reprinted in ''Masters of Horror and the Supernatural: The Great Tales'':
* Introduction by Creator/StephenKing
[[index]]
* "Literature/HopFrog" by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe (1849)
* "Literature/RappaccinisDaughter" by Creator/NathanielHawthorne (1844)
* "Literature/SquireTobysWill" by Creator/JSheridanLeFanu (1868)
* "Literature/TheSquaw" by Creator/BramStoker (1893)
* "Literature/TheJollyCorner" by Creator/HenryJames (1908)
* "[[Literature/ManOverboard Man Overboard!]]" by Creator/WinstonChurchill (1899) ([[https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchill-fiction-man-overboard can be read here]])
* "Literature/TheHand" by Creator/TheodoreDreiser (1919)
* "Literature/TheValleyOfSpiders" by Creator/HGWells (1903)
* "Literature/TheMiddleToeOfTheRightFoot" by Creator/AmbroseBierce (1890)
* "[[Literature/PickmansModel Pickman's Model]]" by Creator/HPLovecraft (1927)
* "[[Literature/YoursTrulyJackTheRipper Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper]]" by Creator/RobertBloch (1943)
* "Literature/TheScreamingLaugh" by Creator/CornellWollrich (1938)
* "Literature/ARoseForEmily" by Creator/WilliamFaulkner (1930)
* "[[Literature/BiancasHands Bianca's Hands]]" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon (1947)
* "Literature/TheGirlWithTheHungryEyes" by Creator/FritzLeiber (1949)
* "Literature/ShutAFinalDoor" by Creator/TrumanCapote (1947)
* "Literature/ComeAndGoMad" by Creator/FredericBrown (1949)
* "Literature/TheScarletKing" by Creator/EvanHunter (1954)
* "{{Literature/Sticks}}" by Creator/KarlEdwardWagner (1974)
* "{{Literature/Sardonicus}}" by Creator/RayRussell (1961)
* "[[Literature/ATeachersRewards A Teacher's Rewards]]" by Creator/RobertPhillips (1970)
* "Literature/TheRoaches" by Creator/ThomasMDisch (1965)
* "Literature/TheJam" by Creator/HenrySlesar (1958)
* "Literature/BlackWind" by Creator/BillPronzini (1979)
* "Literature/TheRoadToMictlantecutli" by Creator/AdobeJames (1965)
* "{{Literature/Passengers}}" by Creator/RobertSilverberg (1968)
* "Literature/TheRoadToMictlantecutli" by Creator/AdobeJames (1965)
* "Literature/TheExplosivesExpert" by Creator/JohnLutz (1967)
* "Literature/CallFirst" by Creator/RamseyCampbell (1975)
* "Literature/TheFly1952" by Creator/ArthurPorges (1952)
* "{{Literature/Namesake}}" by Creator/ElizabethMorton (1981)
* "{{Literature/Camps}}" by Creator/JackDann (1979)
* "Literature/YouKnowWillie" by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell (1957)
* "Literature/TheMindworm" by Creator/CMKornbluth (1950)
* "{{Literature/Warm}}" by Creator/RobertShckley (1953)
* "{{Literature/Transfer}}" by Creator/BarryNMalzberg (1975)
* "Literature/TheDoll1980" by Creator/JoyceCarolOates (1980)
* "Literature/IfDamonComes" by Creator/CharlesLGrant (1978)
* "Literature/MassWithoutVoices" by Creator/ArthurLSamuels (1979)
* "Literature/TheOblongRoom" by Creator/EdwardSHoch (1967)
* "Literature/TheParty" by Creator/WilliamFNolan (1967)
* "Literature/TheCrate" by Creator/StephenKing (1979)
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!!Tropes appearing in this anthology:
* AdvertisingByAssociation: Creator/StephenKing, one of the biggest names in the {{Horror}} genre, wrote the introduction, and this gets advertised on every front cover.
* {{Doorstopper}}: This {{Anthology}} of {{Horror}} and SupernaturalFiction has just under 600 pages, collecting between forty-one and thirty-eight short works, mostly of ShortStory length.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The 1991 ''Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural'' cover has a large eye (including eyelids and eyelashes) set into in the palm of a human hand.
* GenreAnthology: This anthology is focused on SupernaturalFiction.
* HollywoodDrowning: "[[Literature/ManOverboard Man Overboard!]]", a ShortStory by Creator/WinstonChurchill, the [[TheProtagonist viewpoint character]] falls off a large ocean liner and is abandoned in the Red Sea. Exhausted and disheartened by trying to swim for hours, he tries to let himself sink to his death, but instinct takes over and forces him back to the surface.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: The original front cover features a deep red background, grey text for ''The Arbor House Treasury'', bright yellow text for ''of Horror and the Supernatural'', and white text when listing the editor names.
* TheNamesake: "[[Literature/ManOverboard Man Overboard!]]", a ShortStory by Creator/WinstonChurchill, follows the story of a man who falls overboard. But nobody calls out the warning because the music and singing on the ship is too loud to notice his cries for help.
* OneWordTitle:
** "{{Literature/Sticks}}", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/KarlEdwardWagner.
** "{{Literature/Sardonicus}}", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/RayRussell.
** "{{Literature/Passengers}}", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertSilverberg.
** "{{Literature/Namesake}}", a ShortStory by Creator/ElizabethMorton.
** "{{Literature/Camps}}", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/JackDann.
** "{{Literature/Warm}}", a ShortStory by Creator/RobertShckley.
** "{{Literature/Transfer}}", a ShortStory by Creator/BarryNMalzberg.
* ShoutOut:
** The Creator/MagpieBooks cover (titled ''The Giant Book of Horror Stories'') has an image of Cerberus from ClassicalMythology.
** "[[Literature/ManOverboard Man Overboard!]]", a ShortStory by Creator/WinstonChurchill, name-drops and includes a few lines from "The Rowdy Dowdy Boys".
* ThreateningShark: After [[DrivenToSuicide trying to drown himself]], the [[TheProtagonist main character]] begs for a way to die. The story ends by implying he will be eaten by a shark.
--> "Upright in the water, fifty yards away, was a black triangular object. It was a fin. It approached him slowly. His last appeal had been heard."
* {{Tagline}}: "41 Tales of Horror by Classic and Contemporary Masters" from the 1991 ''Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural'' cover.
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