The

CLASSIC HORROR BLOG

Literary Essays on Gothic Horror, Ghost Stories, & Weird Fiction

— from Mary Shelley to M. R. James —

by M. Grant Kellermeyer

Why Do People Like Horror?

It may seem strange, in a world with so much natural horror, to seek to explore and even celebrate horror that extends even further...

7 Best Horror Stories by W. W. Jacobs (Not Including "The Monkey's Paw")

There is perhaps no more cursed writer of horror in the English canon than the elegant Edwardian, W. W. Jacobs. World renowned for one...

7 Best Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens (Not Including 'A Christmas Carol')

Dickens is widely renowned in popular culture as a writer of grade-A ghost stories. “Could you name some?” a person – not particularly...

The Top 9 Film Interpretations of Dracula: Best Movies and Actors

Excerpted from the Introduction to our best-selling title: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA: ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED (Available HERE) DRACULA IN...

7 Great Edwardian Ghost Story Writers

While the weird tale and horror fiction existed in Britain long before the Edwardian Era (fl. 1895 - 1919), this period was certainly the...

So What is Weird Fiction... Really?

As the proliferation of podcasts like A Podcast to the Curious, the H.P. Podcraft, the Edgar Allan Poe-cast, and the Yog-Sothoth Podcast...