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Gothic Horror Short Stories
This handsome foil accented hardcover brings together 23 chilling tales by landmark gothic writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, Sir Walter Scott and many more.
Gothic fiction emerged in the 18th century, recognized for its bleak and sinister landscapes which housed unnatural forces of evil. Often controversial in their time, these stories pushed the boundaries of what was possible in fiction and evoked unsettling emotions as they told their tales of mysterious places, lost secrets, and sudden, shocking violence.
This collection brings together the very best within the genre, featuring crumbling castles, chilling cathedrals, and haunted manors as their eerie settings. Supernatural terrors lurk around every corner.
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Invisible Girl by Mary Shelley
• The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
This wonderful collectible edition with striking red and silver foil accents is sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure.
ABOUT THE The Arcturus Classic Mysteries and Marvels series brings together thrilling short stories from classic fiction, including spine-chilling ghost stories, gripping detective fiction and cosmic horror. These hardback anthologies with foil accented cover designs make wonderful gifts for any classic lover.
Gothic fiction emerged in the 18th century, recognized for its bleak and sinister landscapes which housed unnatural forces of evil. Often controversial in their time, these stories pushed the boundaries of what was possible in fiction and evoked unsettling emotions as they told their tales of mysterious places, lost secrets, and sudden, shocking violence.
This collection brings together the very best within the genre, featuring crumbling castles, chilling cathedrals, and haunted manors as their eerie settings. Supernatural terrors lurk around every corner.
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Invisible Girl by Mary Shelley
• The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott
This wonderful collectible edition with striking red and silver foil accents is sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure.
ABOUT THE The Arcturus Classic Mysteries and Marvels series brings together thrilling short stories from classic fiction, including spine-chilling ghost stories, gripping detective fiction and cosmic horror. These hardback anthologies with foil accented cover designs make wonderful gifts for any classic lover.
- GenresHorror
384 pages, Hardcover
Published March 7, 2023
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,876 books28.6k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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October 30, 2025
I love a bit of gothic horror, especially at this time of year. Gothic Horror Short Stories was the perfect book for the season that's in it. 🕸️
With stories from Mary Shelley, Sheridan le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, and many more, this is a bumper collection of creepiness. 🕸️
There are spectres, ghosts, vengeful spirits, haunted houses, dungeons and castles, everything you would expect to find in a horror story. 🕸️
Not all of the stories pinged my scare-o-meter, but there were one or two that stood out:
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram
The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Cave of Blood by Dick Donovan
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James
These were my favourites in the collection. 🕸️
If you're looking for a spooky read for Halloween, look no further. 🕸️
With stories from Mary Shelley, Sheridan le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, and many more, this is a bumper collection of creepiness. 🕸️
There are spectres, ghosts, vengeful spirits, haunted houses, dungeons and castles, everything you would expect to find in a horror story. 🕸️
Not all of the stories pinged my scare-o-meter, but there were one or two that stood out:
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram
The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Cave of Blood by Dick Donovan
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James
These were my favourites in the collection. 🕸️
If you're looking for a spooky read for Halloween, look no further. 🕸️
December 11, 2025
Most of the stories are meandering campfire tails that end with a fizzle. I was expecting the more cerebral and dread filled gothic style stories but even looking at these through the lense of the time period, this is a bit of a letdown. These are one page short stories, dragged to a 15+ page of melodrama and theatrics
there's some "classics" like the Fall of the House of Usher, which is thematically impressive, but better as an idea, not an actual story.
there's some "classics" like the Fall of the House of Usher, which is thematically impressive, but better as an idea, not an actual story.
February 11, 2025
Not exactly what I expected. Some stories were good, others were not.
July 6, 2025
wonderfully creepy!
November 5, 2023
This novels collections are very hit or miss. You have one novel about three sisters that is wonderful and in my interpretation, the inspiration for corpse bride and then the next novel will make zero sense have no form of horror and maybe it will be a page and a half long.
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