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the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death\'s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan. Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this opulent building where he can indulge in his great passion for music, which is a substitute for the love and emotion denied him because of his ghastly appearance. It is in the Opera House that he encounters Christine Daae whom he trains in secret to become a great singer. Erik\'s passionate obsession with a beautiful woman beyond his reach is doomed and leads to the dramatic tragic finale. Gaston Leroux\'s novel is a marvellous blend of detective story, romance and spine-tingling terror which has fascinated readers ever since the work was first published.Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this opulent building where he can indulge in his great passion for music, which is a substitute for the love and emotion denied him because of his ghastly appearance. It is in the Opera House that he encounters Christine Daae whom he trains in secret to become a great singer. Erik\'s passionate obsession with a beautiful woman beyond his reach is doomed and leads to the dramatic tragic finale. Gaston Leroux\'s novel is a marvellous blend of detective story, romance and spine-tingling terror which has fascinated readers ever since the work was first published. Más información

The wolf has always been a creature of legend and romance, while kings, sorcerers and outlaws have been proud to be called by the name of the wolf, it\'s no wonder, then, that tales of transformation between man and wolf are so powerful and persistent. This original collection offers some of the greatest, rarest and most unusual werewolf stories ever. From the forests of Transylvania to the ordered lawns of an English country estate, here are all the classic aspects of the tale. You will encounter shadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses, crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But you will also find the werewolf in less expected guises - as an adversary for Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the Wild West, and as a figure restored to its origins in folk and fairy tales. With an informative introduction by Mark Valentine that follows the traces of the werewolf in literature, and its links to Dracula, Jekyll Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, this superb collection will make you fear the full moon.You will encounter shadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses, crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But you will also find the werewolf in less expected guises - as an adversary for Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the Wild West, and as a figure restored to its origins in folk and fairy tales. With an informative introduction by Mark Valentine that follows the traces of the werewolf in literature, and its links to Dracula, Jekyll Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, this superb collection will make you fear the full moon. Más información

Pride and Prejudice , which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Litcrature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed mrs Bennet has only one aim – that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroinc, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language. Más información

The Last of the Mohicans (hereinafter Mohicans for short) was published in 1826 and was the second,of the group of five novels, known as \'the Leatherstocking Tales\', for which James Fenimore Cooper is now best known. The name derives from the central character who appears in all of them at various stages ofhis life and under various ticles. In the first of the novels to be published, The Pioneers (1823), he is called Leatherstocking; in Mohicans he is Hawk-eye; in the third of them, The Prairie (1827), he is known as the Trapper. The two later novels in the series, The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841), take their ticles from his other aliases. Más información

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The exploits of sweeney todd, ´the demon barber of fleet street´, have been recounted many time in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years. The string of pearls – the original tale of sweeney todd, a classic of british horror – was first published as a weekly serial in 1846–7 by Edward Lloyd, the king of the Penny Dreadfuls. One of the earliest detective stories, it became an important source for Bram Stoker´s Dracula, but it was after over 150 years of obscurity that it first appeared in book form in the Wordsworth edition published in 2005. Más información

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