The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth
century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the
supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific
horrors, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and
precognition. This anthology brings together twenty-nine 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!
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