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Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition - A Monumental Anthology of Gothic Ghosts Vampires Weird Fiction and Psychological Terror - cover

Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition - A Monumental Anthology of Gothic Ghosts Vampires Weird Fiction and Psychological Terror

Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Daniel Defoe, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas De Quincey, William Makepeace Thackeray, Saki Saki, Edith Nesbit, Robert Louis Stevenson, Grant Allen, William Hope Hodgson, John Kendrick Bangs, Frederick Marryat, Louis Tracy, Richard Marsh, Wilhelm Hauff, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Francis Marion Crawford, Mary Louisa Molesworth, H. P. Lovecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, John Buchan, E. F. Benson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jerome K. Jerome, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, John Meade Falkner, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, H. G. Wells, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert W. Chambers, James Malcolm Rymer, Gertrude Atherton, Robert E. Howard, Arthur Machen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Théophile Gauthier, Amelia B. Edwards, Sabine Baring-Gould, Fitz-James O'Brien, W. W. Jacobs, Cleveland Moffett, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Walter Hubbell, J. K. Huysmans, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Peckett Prest, Pedro De Alarçon, Catherine Crowe, Louisa M. Alcott, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Washington Irving

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Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition surveys the evolution of supernatural and psychological terror from Romanticism through Gothic sensation fiction, fin-de-siècle decadence, and early twentieth-century weird tales. Its extraordinary range encompasses ghost stories, occult investigations, monstrous encounters, Gothic romances, maritime nightmares, satire, and proto-cosmic horror. Canonical narratives of haunted houses, revenants, doubles, cursed artifacts, and forbidden knowledge stand beside less familiar experiments, revealing horror as a flexible language for social unease, moral anxiety, and imaginative excess. The volume gathers an international, transatlantic body of writers whose work shaped the modern fantastic: Romantic and Gothic innovators, Victorian popular storytellers, realist and decadent stylists, and architects of the weird tale. British, American, French, German, Russian, and Spanish traditions meet here, illustrating exchanges among Gothic revivalism, sensationalism, spiritualist culture, imperial adventure, and modern psychological fiction. Women writers and popular-fiction pioneers significantly broaden this history, complicating any narrow account of horror's inheritance. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted readers, this capacious anthology offers a rare opportunity to trace recurring motifs across radically different voices and forms. It rewards both sustained study and selective reading, fostering illuminating dialogue between celebrated masterpieces and neglected curiosities. Readers will find not merely a repository of chills, but a rich archive of literary innovation and cultural history.
Available since: 12/04/2023.
Print length: 22696 pages.

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