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Horror Stories : Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
Edited by Darryl Jones


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 Joness lively introduction discusses horrors 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!


Product details

Format Paperback | 560 pages
Dimensions 127 x 197 x 26mm | 386g
Publication date 25 Dec 2018
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reprint
ISBN10 0199685444
ISBN13 9780199685448
Bestsellers rank 460,546