The Pestilence Club #1

Name: The Pestilence Club #1
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ISBN: 9781326197407

✍️ Edgar Allen Poe Ambrose Bierce

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🏛 Lulu.com 📅 2015 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781326197407

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3 short stories in one volume bought to you by The Pestilence Club. Edgar Allan Poe (Masque Of The Red Death), Ambrose Bierce (The Damned Thing) and Theophile Gautier (The Mummy's Foot) all feature.

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The Pestilence Club assembles three classic tales of dread into a single volume that explores the unsettling intersection of disease, supernatural fatalism, and ancient curses. Blending Edgar Allan Poe’s allegorical plague with Ambrose Bierce’s unseen predatory force and Théophile Gautier’s uncanny antiquarian relic, this collection delivers a rich, atmospheric journey through nineteenth-century weird fiction. Rather than relying on sudden shocks, the narrative cultivates a slow-burning sense of doom, focusing on psychological unease and the inescapable nature of mortality. It suits readers who appreciate classic literary horror and slow-paced, atmospheric storytelling over modern visceral terror.

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The Pestilence Club assembles three classic tales of dread into a single volume that explores the unsettling intersection of disease, supernatural fatalism, and ancient curses. Blending Edgar Allan Poe’s allegorical plague with Ambrose Bierce’s unseen predatory force and Théophile Gautier’s uncanny antiquarian relic, this collection delivers a rich, atmospheric journey through nineteenth-century weird fiction. Rather than relying on sudden shocks, the narrative cultivates a slow-burning sense of doom, focusing on psychological unease and the inescapable nature of mortality. It suits readers who appreciate classic literary horror and slow-paced, atmospheric storytelling over modern visceral terror.