The Terrors of the Night

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Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary '...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...';;The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a magical ability with words, never more so than in The Terrors of the Night, where he mulls over ghosts, demons, nightmares and the supernatural.;;Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

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Thomas Nashe (1567-1601). Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works is available in Penguin Classics.