Horror stories classic tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson
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...
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New York, NY :
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- The sandman / E. T. A. Hoffmann
- The man in the bell / William Maginn
- George Dobson's expedition to hell / James Hogg
- La grande bretêche / Honré de Balzac
- Berenice- a tale / Edgar Allan Poe
- Strange event in the life of Schalken the painter / Sheridan Le Fanu
- The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Tartarus of Maids / Herman Melville
- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien
- No. 1 Branch line: The signal-man / Charles Dickens
- The death of Olivier Bécaille / Émile Zola
- The Vivisector vivisected / Ronald Ross
- The body-snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson
- The mark of the beast / Rudyard Kipling
- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce
- The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The case of Lady Sannox / Arthur Conan Doyle
- The squaw / Bram Stoker
- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers
- Novel of the white powder / Arthur Machen
- The adventure of Lady Wishaw's hand / Richard Marsh
- The monkey's paw / W. W. Jacobs
- Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Count Magnus / M. R. James
- For the blood is the life / Francis Marion Crawford
- The Wendigo / Algernon Blackwood
- August heat / W. F. Harvey
- The room in the tower / E. F. Benson
- The derelict / William Hope Hodgson.
