Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson

Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson

Edited by: Darryl Jones

Abstract

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 horror, 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. The book includes stories by some of the best writers of the century -- Hoffmann, Poe, Balzac, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, and Zola -- as well as established genre classics from M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others. It includes rare and little-known pieces by writers such as William Maginn, Francis Marion Crawford, W. F. Harvey, and William Hope Hodgson, and shows the important role played by periodicals in popularizing the horror story. Wherever possible, stories are reprinted in their first published form, with background information about their authors and helpful, contextualizing annotation. Darryl Jones's lively introduction discusses horror's literary evolution and its articulation of cultural preoccupations and anxieties. These are stories guaranteed to freeze the blood, revolt the senses, and keep you awake at night: prepare to be terrified!

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

ISBN:: 9780199685448

DOI:: 10.1093/owc/9780199685448.001.0001

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Darryl Jones, editor

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Front Matter
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- Chronology
The SandmanE. T. A. Hoffmann
The Man in the BellWilliam Maginn
George Dobson’s Expedition to HellJames Hogg
La Grande BretêcheHonoré de Balzac
Berenice—A TaleEdgar Allan Poe
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter: Being a Seventh Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis Purcell, P.P. of DrumcoolaghSheridan Le Fanu
The Birth-MarkNathaniel Hawthorne
The Tartarus of MaidsHerman Melville
What Was It?Fitz-James O’Brien
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-ManCharles Dickens
The Death of Olivier BécailleÉmile Zola
The Vivisector VivisectedRonald Ross
The Body-SnatcherRobert Louis Stevenson
The Mark of the BeastRudyard Kipling
ChickamaugaAmbrose Bierce
The Yellow Wall PaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman
The Case of Lady SannoxArthur Conan Doyle
The SquawBram Stoker
The Repairer of ReputationsRobert W. Chambers
Novel of the White PowderArthur Machen
The Adventure of Lady Wishaw’s Hand: (Mr Pugh tells the story)Richard Marsh
The Monkey’s PawW. W. Jacobs
Luella MillerMary E. Wilkins Freeman
Count MagnusM. R. James
For the Blood is the LifeFrancis Marion Crawford
The WendigoAlgernon Blackwood
August HeatW. F. Harvey
The Room in the TowerE. F. Benson
The DerelictWilliam Hope Hodgson
End Matter
- Explanatory Notes

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