The Christmas Banquet - A yearly Xmas dinner where the host gathers the ten saddest people he can find
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tintern Abbey - Glorious poem evoking the beauty of a church monument
William Wordsworth
The Sculptor's Funeral - A small town tale steeped in symbolism about a famous sculptor returning home
Willa Cather
Shakespeare An Ode for His Three-Hundreth Birthday - A sumptous tribute to the master of English literature
Martin Farquhar Tupper
The Poetry of John Gould Fletcher - The first Southern poet to win the Pulitzer Prize
John Gould Fletcher
The Flying Fish - Decadent poet Gray gives his unique view on life
John Gray
Gods in Exile - An incredible story delving into deep philosophical questions about God
Heinrich Heine
Lycidas - Much shorter poem from the famed author of Paradise Lost
John Milton
Stories From The Shadows – The French - Embrace the darkness
Marcel Schwob, Prosper Merimee, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, Honoré de Balzac, Jean Lorrain
The Unnameable - A horror story about two men having a conversation in a cemetery
HP LOVECRAFT
The Slave Trade A Poem - Hugely influential activist and social reform poem
Hannah More
Stories From The Shadows – The Germans - Embrace the darkness
Alfred Lichtenstein, E T A Hoffmann, Wilhelm Hauff, Ernest Raupach, Johann Hebel, Hanns Heinz Ewers, The Brothers Grimm
The Music of Erich Zann - An elderly musician seems to weave horror and reality with his tune
HP LOVECRAFT
Ode to Liberty - Famous Romantic poet on social injustice
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stories From The Shadows – The Irish - Embrace the darkness
Oscar Wilde, Sheridan Le Fanu, Allen Upward, B M Croker, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Charlotte Riddell, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Rosa Mulholland, Bram Stoker
The Tomb - A young man in an insane asylum tries to recount how he got there
HP LOVECRAFT
The Ballad of East & West - A visionary poem about differences around the world
Rudyard Kipling
Stories From The Shadows – The Russians - Embrace the darkness
Vsevolod Garshin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Nikolai Gogol, Leonid Andreyev, Leo Tolstoy, Valery Bryusov
The Kit Bag - One of the earliest examples of serial killer fiction
Algernon Blackwood
A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party - A poetic retelling of one of Americas greatest moment
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stories From The Shadows – The Scottish - Embrace the darkness
Margaret Oliphant, Robert Barr, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Violet Jacob, Hume Nisbet
The Burglar's Christmas - A tale of redemption set during Xmas
Willa Cather
A Ballad of Death - A poetic examination of grief and lost love
Algernon Charles Swinburne
What the Bells Saw and Said - A people watching story by the famed author of Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
The Ballad of a Nun - A decadent poet describes a young womans struggle between religion and life
John Davidson
The Stolen White Elephant - A detective attempts to unravel the kidnapping of an elephant
Mark Twain
Curious If True - A man seeks shelterin a French town but begins questioning his sanity
Elizabeth Gaskell
Stories From The Shadows – Murder - Embrace the darkness
Prosper Merimee, A M Burrage, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Barr, Mary E. Penn, Arthur Conan Doyle, J Y Ackerman, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, W F Harvey, Arabella Kenealy, Robert Duncan Milne, William Hope Hodgson, Harold Begbie, Gustave Flaubert, Allen Upward, Fredric Brown
The Black Hand - One of the first examples of the Mafia in fiction
Arthur B Reeves
Stories From The Shadows – Devil - Embrace the darkness
Ernest Raupach, Wilhelm Hauff, William Makepeace Thackeray, Gertrude Atherton, Nicolo Machiavelli, Charles Baudelaire, Fernan Caballeron, Richard Garnett, Ion Luca Caragiale
