Q: As one of the ten best fantasy short stories for this period you picked one by Elizabeth Ellet, yet none by Edgar Allan Poe who did not hold her in high regard. Take a wondrous journey into the early unknown and read the 10 best fantasy stories from 1800-1849 today. Middle Unearthed, an Introduction - Andrew Bargerġ836 The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton - Charles Dickensġ839 The Kelpie Rock - Joseph Holt Ingrahamġ835 The Doom of Soulis - John MacKay Wilsonġ845 The Witch Caprusche - Elizabeth F.
But his treatment of some of the earliest stories in the genre gets even better with annotations of the stories, which allow readers to peek behind the stories. Andrew further includes background introductions to each story and author photos, where available. He provides a list, at the back of the collection, of the stories considered along with the author and year of publication. In old magazines and forgotten journals, Andrew read well over 100 fantasy short stories and settled on the very best for this fantasy anthology.
These excellent stories have been uncovered by Andrew Barger, awarding winning editor of 6a66le: Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849 and BlooDeath: Best Vampire Short Stories 1800-1849. “The Mask of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe “A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family,” by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu “The Spectral Ship,” by Wilhelm Hauff “The Old Maid in the Winding Sheet,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Adventure of the German Student,” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” by Washington Irving as well as “The Tapestried Chamber,” by Sir Walter Scott.Īs he has done with a number of other books, Andrew Barger has added his scholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds, author photos and a foreword titled "All Ghosts Are Gray." Buy the book today and be ready to be scared.Before there were lovable green ogres called Shrek and a kid wizard named Harry Potter, there were the 10 best fantasy short stories published in English during the first half of the nineteenth century. The other ghost stories in this fine collection are by famous authors.
Some stories thought too horrific were published anonymously like “A Night in a Haunted House” and “The Deaf and Dumb Girl.” The later story is collected for the first time in any anthology since its original publication in 1839. Ghost stories became very popular in the first half of the nineteenth century and this collection by Andrew Barger contains the very scariest of them all.
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