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AMERICAN & CANADIAN

MASTERS of HORROR

North American writers of horror, ghost stories, weird fiction, and the Gothic.

AMERICAN HORROR (The Ghost Story)

ELEGANT GHOST STORIES, PARABLES, GOTHIC FARCES, and DARK ROMANTICISM

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton; John Kendrick Bangs; Stephen Vincent Benet;

Charles Brockden Brown; Willa Cather; Stephen Crane; Emma Frances Dawson;

Olivia Howard Dunbar; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Ellen Glasgow;

Nathaniel Hawthorne; Patrick Lafcadio Hearn; Washington Irving; Henry James;

Sarah Orne Jewett; Harriet Prescott Spofford; Mark Twain; Edith Wharton

AMERICAN HORROR (The Weird Tale)

VIOLENT GHOST STORIES, PULP FICTION, FANTASY, and CYNICAL COSMICISM

Ambrose Bierce; Robert W. Chambers; Irvin S. Cobb; Ralph Adams Cram;

F. Marion Crawford; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Julian Hawthorne;

David H. Keller, M.D.; Jack London; H.P. Lovecraft; Herman Melville;

William Chambers Morrow; Fitz-James O'Brien; Edgar Allan Poe;

Francis Stevens (Gertrude B. Bennett); Edward Lucas White;

Henry St. Clair Whitehead

CANADIAN HORROR (The Terror of Wilderness)

ECO-HORROR, WEIRD FICTION, FOLK STORIES, and SURVIVALIST NARRATIVES

Grant Allen; Honoré Beaugrand; W.H. Blake; S. Carleton; John Charles Dent;

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé; Stephen Leacock; Gilbert Parker; Charles G. D. Roberts; Mazo de la Roche; Robert Service; Duncan Campbell Scott;

Vincent Starrett; Alan Sullivan;

{1898 - 1943}
Recommended Readings -
Jacob and the Indians; A Tooth for Paul Revere; The Devil and Daniel Webster; The King of the Cats; Freedom’s a Hard-Bought Thing; O’Hollaoran’s Luck; The Die-Hard; Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer; Spanish Bayonet; Too Early Spring; The Story About the Anteater; Schooner Fairchild’s Class; Everybody Was Very Nice; All Around the Town Glamour; No Visitors; A Death in the Country; The Curfew Tolls; The Last of the Legions; The Blood of the Martyrs

{1862 - 1937}
Recommended Readings -
The Lady’s Maid’s Bell
The Eyes
Afterward
Kerfol
The Triumph of Night
The Duchess at Prayer
Miss Mary Pask
Bewitched
The Fulness of Life
Mr Jones
Pomegranate Seed
The Looking Glass
A Journey
All Souls’
A Bottle of Perrier

{1857 - 1948}
Recommended Readings -
The Caves of Death
Death and the Woman
The Striding Place
Crowned with One Crest
Death and the Countess
The Bell in the Fog
The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number
The Tragedy of a Snob
The Foghorn
Eternal Now
Sacrificial Altar

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{1865-1933}
Recommended Readings -
'The King in Yellow'
- The Repairer of Reputations
- The Yellow Sign
- The Mask
- The Demoiselle D'Ys
- In the Court of the Dragon
- The Prophet's Paradise

The Maker of Moons; The Harbor Master; A Pleasant Evening; Pompre Funebre; The Tomb of Samaris;The Messenger; The White Shadow; Passeur; The Key to Grief; Un Peu d’Amour

{1882-1932}
Recommended Readings -
Tea Leaves; The Door; The Fireplace; Sea Change; The Thin Match; The Wonderful Thing; Across the Gulf; Jumbee; Obi in the Carribean; West India Lights; The Left Eye; The Shadows; The Cult of the Skull; Sweet Grass; The Lips; The Tabernacle Hill Drums; The Moon-Dial; Seven Turns in a Hangman’s Rope; No Eyewitnesses; Sea-Tiger; In Case of Disaster Only; The Ravel Pavane; Scar Tissue; Bothon

{1842-1914?}
Recommended Readings -
The Death of Halpin Frayser
The Middle-toe of the Right Foot
John Bartine's Watch
Some Haunted Houses
The Man and the Snake
The Moonlit Road
The Damned Thing
Moxon's Master
The Ways of Ghosts
Beyond the Wall
A Watcher by the Dead
Mysterious Disappearances
The Suitable Surroundings
The Eyes of the Panther
An Inhabitant of Carcosa
The Night-Doings at "Deadman's"

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{1848 -1906}
Recommended Readings -
The Miser's Ghost

{1868 -1947}
Recommended Readings -
The Jade God
The Days of their Youth
In the Beginning
A Little Way Ahead
Mr Absalom
“And from that Day”
Brains

{1848 -1899}
Recommended Readings -
Kalee’s Shrine; The Devil’s Die; The White Man’s Foot; The Jaws of Death; The Great Taboo; The Tents of Shem; Michael’s Crag; The British Barbarians; My New Year’s Eve Among the Mummies; Our Scientific Observations on a Ghost; The Empress of Andorra; The Foundering of the Fortuna; An Episode in High Life; Carvalho; Dr Greatrex’s Engagement; The Backslider; The Curate of Churnside; The Mysterious Occurance in Piccadilly; The Rev. John Creedy; The Beckoning Hand

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