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
horror, 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, and Zola - as well as established genre classics from 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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