In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier, Bram Stoker, Ambrose Bierce, Hanns Heinz Ewers, L.T. Meade, Robert W. Chambers, Leslie S. Klinger, M.R. James, F. Marion Crawford, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dick Donovan, W.C. Morrow, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, George MacDonald, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lafcadio Hearn

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier, Bram Stoker, Ambrose Bierce, Hanns Heinz Ewers, L.T. Meade, Robert W. Chambers, Leslie S. Klinger, M.R. James, F. Marion Crawford, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dick Donovan, W.C. Morrow, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, George MacDonald, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lafcadio Hearn

336 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction classics horror short stories dark slow-paced
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Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who were in turn influenced by Poe’s genius and produced their own popula...

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