Description:
Crypt Classics: Best 19th Century Horror Stories is annotated by award-winning author and editor, Andrew Barger. The anthology delivers 13 haunting tales that will leave an indelible mark on your mind. Andrew read hundreds of horror short stories from long forgotten magazines to compile the 13 greatest of this crucial 100-year period for horror short stories. At the back of the book he includes a list of all short stories he considered along with their dates of publication and author, when available. He includes background information for each of the stories and author photos. A number of the stories were published in leading periodicals of the day such as Blackwood's and Atkinson's Casket.
This fully annotated edition includes:
- Annotations of each story throughout
- Literary comments and analyses
- Citations from 19th century magazines
- An introduction by Andrew Barger
- Background information for each of the 13 horror short stories
- Comparisons of other horror stories of the century in question
- List of stories considered by Andrew Barger when choosing the very best