Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
About this book
The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- El verdugo / Honoré de Balzac -- The story of the Greek slave / Captain Marryat -- The iron shroud / William Mudford -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan LeFanu -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The doom of the Griffiths / Mrs. Gaskell -- Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Torture by hope / Villiers de L'Isle-Adam -- The diamond necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sleepyhead / Anton Chekov -- His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow -- The gravedigger's daughter / Léopold von Sacher-Masoch -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Vengeance / Lorimer Stoddard -- Désirée's baby / Kate Chopin -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- A dreadful night / Edwin L. Arnold -- The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram -- Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells -- The story of the Brazilian cat / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The dead smile / F. Marion Crawford -- A game of chess / Robert Barr.
Subjects
- american horror tales
- american literature
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- confederacy
- crime
- crime fiction
- crime in fiction
- delitos
- detective and mystery stories
- fiction
- first-person narrative
- gothic fiction
- gothic fiction (literary genre)
- hanging
- history
- homicide
- horror
- horror fiction
- horror stories
- horror tales
- hyperesthesia
- juvenile fiction
- louisiana creoles
- miscegenation
- murder
- murder in fiction
- paranormal fiction
- quadroons
- racism
- short stories
- short story
- union
- united states civil war