The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849

The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849

A Classic Horror Anthology

by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Warren, Honore de Balzac, Wilhelm Hauff, Ernst Hoffmann

250 pages· 2010· ISBN 9781933747224
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This book was a finalist in the USA Book Awards anthology category. Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others, the half century from 1800-1849 is the cradle of all modern horror short stories. Andrew Barger, the editor of this book as well as "Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems," read over 300 horror short stories to compile the 12 best. At the back of the book he includes a list of all horror short stories he considered along with their dates of publication and author, when available. He even includes background for each of the stories, author photos and annotations for difficult terminology. A number of the stories were published in leading periodicals of the day such as Blackwood's and Atkinson's Casket. Read The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849 today!

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