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CLASSIC HORROR BLOG

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

— from Mary Shelley to M. R. James —

by M. Grant Kellermeyer

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Inspirations, Interpretations, and a Literary Analysis

I was six years old when I walked into a bookstore in Holland, Michigan with my family and met Dr. Jekyll for the first time. We had...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Morally Schizophrenic, Existential Horror Stories

J. M. Barrie, the Scottish playwright and author of Peter Pan, once quipped that the initials “R.L.S.” are “the best beloved in recent...

7 Best Horror Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson (Not Including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)

To this day the name Stevenson resonates to some in the same way that Stoker and Shelley do – as the creator of one of literature’s most...

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Thrawn Janet" in Modern English, Translated from the Scots

"Thrawn Janet" is one of the most ghoulish and twisted (pun) horror stories to come from a Victorian pen. It is one of Stevenson's best...