Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson
Darryl Jones, E.T.A. Hoffmann, William Maginn, James Hogg, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fitz-James O’Brien, Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Ronald Ross, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Machen, Richard Marsh, W.W. Jacobs, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, M.R. James, F. Marion Crawford, Algernon Blackwood, William Fryer Harvey, E.F. Benson, William Hope Hodgson
4.00 · 3 ratings · Published: 01 Oct 2014
The book includes stories by some of the best writers of the century - Hoffmann, Poe, Balzac, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, Zola - as well as established genre classics such as M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and others. It includes rare and little-known pieces by writers such as William Maginn, Francis Marion Crawford, W. F. Harvey, and William Hope Hodgson, and shows the important role played by periodicals in popularizing the horror story. Wherever possible stories are reprinted in their first published form, with background information about their authors and helpful, contextualizing annotation. Darryl Jones's lively introduction discusses horror's literary evolution and its articulation of cultural preoccupations and anxieties. These are stories guaranteed to freeze the blood, revolt the senses, and keep you awake at night: prepare to be terrified!
- fantasy 4
- horror 3
- classics 3
- gothic 3
- supernatural 2
- mystery 2
- spooky 2
- folktales & legends 2
- ghosts 2
- monsters/creatures 2
- crime 1
- literary fiction 1
- retellings 1
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- format - reader age
- anthology 3
- adult fiction 1