One of the first plant horror stories was ushered into the world not by Edgar Allan Poe or Arthur Machen or H. G. Wells, but rather from a relatively unknown horror writer by the name of Fred White. "The Purple Terror" was published by the august English magazine The Strand Magazine in 1898. The editors were unafraid to publish supernatural fiction. Some of its published authors included H. G. Wells, Elizabeth Nesbit and Rudyard Kipling. Then, or course, The Strand Magazine e

Henri Guy de Maupassant’s short story Was it a Dream? invites readers into a world where reality and imagination blur, leaving us questioning what is real and what is illusion. This ghost story, written in the late 19th century, explores themes of fear, memory, and the supernatural with a subtle yet chilling touch. It challenges the reader to consider how the mind processes trauma and the unknown, making it a timeless piece that continues to captivate. Frenchman, Henri Guy de

In 1897 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his best jungle horror story called “The Fiend of the Cooperage.” It is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s best horror stories along with “The Brazilian Cat.” The scary short story is also his only jungle horror tale. It's full of snappy dialogue a pervasive sense of hot, sticky dread. Arthur Conan Doyle (Hat) and Robert Barr (Left) As Richard Burton said in the November 14, 1908 issue of The Bellman’s Bookshelf, in reference to a Doyle c