The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology

Name: The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology
Rating: 4.222222328186035 (36 reviews)

Edgar Allan Poe · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Samuel Warren · Wilhelm Hauff · Ernst Hoffmann · Honore de Balzac · Charles Dickens

Aug 2010 · Best Horror Short Stories of the 19th Century Book 1 · Bottletree Books LLC

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This book was a finalist in the USA Book Awards anthology category.

Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others, the half century from 1800-1849 is the cradle of all modern horror short stories. Andrew Barger, the editor of this book as well as "Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems," read over 300 horror short stories to compile the 12 best.

At the back of the book he includes a list of all horror short stories he considered along with their dates of publication and author, when available. He even includes background for each of the stories, author photos and annotations for difficult terminology. A number of the stories were published in leading periodicals of the day such as Blackwood's and Atkinson's Casket. Read The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849 today!

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4.2

36 reviews

Ricky Beachy

March 11, 2016

Awesome book! !!!!!!

3 people found this review helpful

A Google user

February 7, 2011

i thought it had a very good "feel" to it. i mostly loved the Edgar Allan Poe work that was in this book. i strongly suggest that every horror lover buy this book. I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Angel gonzalez

February 28, 2014

it's marvelous

8 people found this review helpful

About the author

Andrew Barger's latest fiction is The Divine Dantes trilogy. The first book in the series follows the characters of Dante’s “The Inferno” in a messed-up modern world. Andrew is also the award winning author of Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe’s Life. Mailboxes – Mansions – Memphistopheles is his first short story collection. The later was a finalist in the International Book Awards short story collection category. He is also the editor of a number of other books, including Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Stories 1800-1849, BlooDeath: The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849 and Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems. He is recognized for his scholarly and creative writing.

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