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.
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Chronology
E.T.A. HOFFMANN, The Sandman
WILLIAM MAGINN, The Man in the Bell
JAMES HOGG, George Dobson's Expedition to Hell
HONORΓ DE BALZAC, La Grande BretΓͺche
EDGAR ALLAN POE, Berenice
SHERIDAN LE FANU, Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Birth-Mark
HERMAN MELVILLE, The Tartarus of Maids
FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN, What Was It?
CHARLES DICKENS, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man
ΓMILE ZOLA, The Death of Olivier BΓ©caille
RONALD ROSS, The Vivisector Vivisected
ROBERT-LOUIS STEVENSON, The Body-Snatcher
RUDYARD KIPLING, The Mark of the Beast
AMBROSE BIERCE, Chickamauga
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN,The Yellow Wall Paper
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Case of Lady Sannox
BRAM STOKER, The Squaw
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS, The Repairer of Reputations
ARTHUR MACHEN, Novel of the White Powder
RICHARD MARSH, The Adventure of Lady Wishaw's Hand
W. W. JACOBS, The Monkey's Paw
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN, Luella Miller
M. R. JAMES, Count Magnus
FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD, For the Blood is the Life
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, The Wendigo
W. F. HARVEY, August Heat
E. F. BENSON, The Room in the Tower
WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON, The Derelict
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