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October 2015
On Sale: October 8, 2015
ISBN: 1605988758
EAN: 9781605988757
Kindle: B00VXPW6NU
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Horror
A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely
acclaimed
authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in
the shadow of Poe, by one of America's foremost
anthologists.
Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There
were American, English, and Continental writers who
preceded
Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who
were in turn influenced by Poe’s genius and produced their
own popular tales of supernatural literature. This
collection features masterful tales of terror by authors
who, by and large, are little-remembered for their writing
in this genre. Even Bram Stoker, whose Dracula may be said
to be the most popular horror novel of all time, is not
known as a writer of short fiction. Distinguished editor Leslie S. Klinger is a world-renowned
authority on those twin icons of the Victorian age,
Sherlock
Holmes, and Dracula. His studies into the forefathers of
those giants led him to a broader fascination with writers
of supernatural literature of the nineteenth century. The
stories in this collection have been selected by him for
their impact. Each is preceded by a brief biography of the
author and an overview of his or her literary career and is
annotated to explain obscure references. Read on, now, perhaps with a flickering candle or
flashlight
at hand . . . Stories by: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,
Theodor
Gautier, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Conan Doyle,
Lafcadio Hearn, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, and many others.
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