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Critical Essays on Horror, Ghost Stories, & Weird Fiction

— from Mary Shelley to M. R. James —

by M. Grant Kellermeyer

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Dec 2, 2021
24 min

M. R. James' Disturbingly Invasive, Introspective Ghost Stories: A Deep Literary Analysis (Part II)

NOTE: This second and final post is continued from Part I, where we explored James' transformation of the ghost story genre, his own...

Nov 17, 2021
26 min

M. R. James' Disturbingly Invasive, Introspective Ghost Stories: A Deep Literary Analysis (Part I)

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss...

Aug 25, 2019
17 min

Ambrose Bierce's Brutally Savage, Bitterly Mournful Horror Stories

“GHOST, n. The outward sign of an inward fear” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary He was the successor of Edgar Allan Poe and a...

Aug 17, 2019
8 min

The White-Knuckle Thrillers and Darwinian Horror Stories of H. G. Wells

The canon of science fiction follows a very direct descent. From Thomas More to Johannes Kepler, Francis Godwin, and Cyrano de Bergerac,...

Jul 8, 2019
14 min

The Nightmarish, Deeply Personal Horror Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

You have read Poe before. I say that with the authority of someone who was brought up in the American public education system. You have...

Jan 14, 2019
22 min

E. T. A. Hoffmann's Freakishly Surreal, Reality-Bending Horror Stories

“I felt as a child feels when some fairy tale has been told it to conceal the truth it suspects.” – E. T. A. Hoffmann He was the...

Dec 7, 2018
30 min

J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Savage, Unnervingly Intimate Ghost Stories

CREPUSCULAR (Adj.) : of, resembling, or relating to twilight; (of an animal) appearing or active in twilight. Synonyms: Half-light,...

Oct 23, 2018
23 min

Washington Irving's Wistfully Anxious, Lonesome Ghost Stories

He was the greatest American writer of his time: he was a mentor to Poe, Longfellow, and Hawthorne, his country’s first professional...

Jun 21, 2018
14 min

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...

Apr 22, 2018
14 min

Arthur Machen's Sexually Charged, Mystical Horror Stories

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are...

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GOTHIC NOVELS & NOVELLAS

MACABRE MASTERS BEST STORIES BY AUTHOR

STORY SUMMARIES & ANALYSES HORROR TROPE SPOTLIGHTS

FILM ADAPTATIONS NEW BOOK REVIEWS HOLIDAY STORIES