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Best Horror Short Stories Anthology 1800-1849 (Annotated)

An anthology finalist award winner in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a Gothic Readers Book Club Choice Award WinnerThe 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 he considered along with their dates of publication and author, when available. He includes background for each of the stories and author photos. A number of the stories were published in leading periodicals of the day such as Blackwood's and Atkinson's Casket. The anthology is annotated, too.


  • 1836 The Old Man's Tale About the Queer Client by Charles Dickens (1812 -1870)

  • 1817 The Deserted House by E.T. A. Hoffmann (1776 - 1822)

  • 1836 The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

  • 1843 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

  • 1830 The Mysterious Mansion by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

  • 1828 The Severed Hand by Wilhelm Hauff (1802 - 1827)

  • 1826 The Lighthouse by George Soane (1789 - 1860)

  • 1842 The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

  • 1832 The Executioner by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

  • 1832 The Thunder-Struck and the Boxer by Samuel Warren (1807 - 1877)

  • 1845 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

  • 1839 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) 


 
 
 

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