Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson by Darryl Jones (editor)
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Overview: The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horrors, colonial horror, and tales of mystery and premonition. This anthology brings together 29 of the greatest horror stories of the period from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions. It ranges widely across the sub-genres to encompass authors whose terror-inducing powers remain unsurpassed.
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!
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy Horror
Featured in this collection are:
The Sandman by E. T. A. HOFFMANN
The Man in the Bell by WILLIAM MAGINN
George Dobson’s Expedition to Hell by JAMES HOGG
La Grande Bretêche by HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Berenice—A Tale by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by SHERIDAN LE FANU
The Birth-Mark by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Tartarus of Maids by HERMAN MELVILLE
What Was It? by FITZ-JAMES O’BRIEN
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man by CHARLES DICKENS
The Death of Olivier Bécaille by ÉMILE ZOLA
The Vivisector Vivisected by RONALD ROSS
The Body-Snatcher by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The Mark of the Beast by RUDYARD KIPLING
Chickamauga by AMBROSE BIERCE
The Yellow Wall Paper by CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
The Case of Lady Sannox by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Squaw by BRAM STOKER
The Repairer of Reputations by ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
Novel of the White Powder by ARTHUR MACHEN
The Adventure of Lady Wishaw’s Hand by RICHARD MARSH
The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. JACOBS
Luella Miller by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
Count Magnus by M. R. JAMES
For the Blood is the Life by FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD
The Wendigo by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
August Heat by W. F. HARVEY
The Room in the Tower by E. F. BENSON
The Derelict by WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON
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