The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy an...

Auguste Comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam was a French writer whose work often explored themes of the fantastic and the supernatural. His collection, Antología de la literatura fantástica, showcases his interest in these speculative genres. He's a writer for those who enjoy a touch of the strange and imaginative.

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist, theatre manager and barrister, born in Clontarf, Dublin. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin he worked in the Irish civil service and wrote drama criticism, then moved to London in 1878 to become business manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. He wrote a run of horror and adventure novels, including The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm, but is remembered for Dracula (1897), the ep...

Captain Marryatt was a master of 19th-century tales, particularly those that sent shivers down your spine. His collection, The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century, showcases his knack for spooky stories. If you enjoy a good ghost or a chilling mystery, you'll find yourself right at home with his work.

Charles G. Waugh is the editor of The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century. He has a keen eye for classic tales of the eerie and unexplained.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in...

Edwin Lester Linden Arnold curated this collection of the best horror and supernatural tales from the 19th century. He has a keen eye for the chilling and the uncanny, bringing together stories that still send shivers down the spine.

A British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell

A prolific American writer of romances and fantasies (Wikipedia). He was born in Italy and lived much of his adult life there.

Guy de Maupassant, né le 5 août 1850 au château de Miromesnil près de Tourville-sur-Arques (France) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris, est un écrivain et journaliste littéraire français. Lié à Gustave Flaubert et à Émile Zola, Maupassant a marqué la littérature française par ses six romans, dont Une vie en 1883, Bel-Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, et surtout par ses nouvelles (parfois intitulées contes) comme Boule de Suif en 1880, les *Contes de la...

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was a writer who explored the darker corners of the imagination. Her collection, The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century, showcases her talent for crafting chilling tales. She's a great choice for anyone who enjoys classic ghost stories and gothic atmospheres.

Herbert George Wells was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary.

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac

Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of...

Kate Chopin is the author of Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. This collection showcases her work in American literature.

Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name. During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.

Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. He was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Greenberg was also an expert in terrorism and the Middle East. He was a longtime friend, colleague and busine...

Ralph Adams Cram was a significant voice in Gothic and supernatural literature. His collection, The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century, showcases his keen eye for chilling tales from that era. He's a great pick if you enjoy classic ghost stories and atmospheric dread.

A Canadian/British writer of novels and short stories (Wikipedia). Born in Scotland, he went with his parents to Canada when he was four, taught and did some writing in Canada until he emigrated to England in 1881 where he did most of his writing and was associated with, inter alia, Jerome K. Jerome and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction "[The Jungle Book][1]" (1894). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature. ([Source][2]) [1]: /works/OL15400121W/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873), best known as Sheridan Le Fanu, was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla, and The House by the Churchyard. **S...

American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent" (Wikipedia).

W. C. Morrow is your go-to for chilling tales. He's the editor behind The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century, a collection that's sure to give you a good scare. If you love classic ghost stories and eerie mysteries, Morrow's work is a must-read.

William Mudford is the editor behind The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century. He has a keen eye for the chilling and the uncanny from that era.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medic...