An anthology finalist award winner in the  Next Generation Indie Book Awards  and a  Gothic Readers Book Club Choice Award Winner ,  The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849  delivers 12 of the greatest horror stories for the first half of the 19th century. Andrew Barger, author of the award winning  Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life  read over 300 horror short stories to compile the dozen best. At the back of the book he includes a list of all short stories h

I started a discussion on Kindle forums and asked for people's favorite horror short stories. Here is the consolidated list. Read some of these scary stories in Crypt Classics: The Best 19th Horror Stories Anthology I edited. It was a finalist in the anthology category of the Indie Book Awards.   Edgar Allan Poe : The Black Cat (2), The Cask of Amontillado (4), The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Pit and the Pendulum