Horror Stories - Classic Tales from Hoffmann to HodgsonPaperback / softback
Horror Stories - Classic Tales from Hoffmann to HodgsonPaperback / softback The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories,…
Specifikacia Horror Stories - Classic Tales from Hoffmann to HodgsonPaperback / softback
Horror Stories - Classic Tales from Hoffmann to HodgsonPaperback / softback
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. 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. 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 includes rare and little-known pieces by writers such as William Maginn, James, Arthur Machen, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others.