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Edwardian Horror : 1900 - 1920

VIOLENT GHOST STORIES, WEIRD FICTION, MYSTICAL FANTASIES, and COSMIC HORROR

BRITISH & IRISH

MASTERS of HORROR

British and Irish of horror, ghost stories, weird fiction, and the gothic.

EDWARDIAN & INTERWAR HORROR (1900 - 1935)

VIOLENT GHOST STORIES, WEIRD FICTION, MYSTICAL FANTASIES, and COSMIC HORROR

Edward Frederic Benson (E. F. Benson) ; Arthur Christopher Benson (A. C. Benson)

Robert Hugh Benson (R. H. Benson) ; Algernon Blackwood ; A. M. Burrage ; Bernard Capes

Walter de la Mare ; L. P. Hartley ; William Hope Hodgson ; William Wymark Jacobs (W. W. Jacobs)

Montague Rhodes James (M. R. James) ; Perceval Landon ; Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) ; Barry Pain ; Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany

Elliott O'Donnell ; Oliver Onions ; Matthew Phipps Shiell (M. P. Shiel); H. R. Wakefield

LATE VICTORIAN HORROR (1865 - 1900)

TRAGIC GHOST STORIES, REVENGE NARRATIVES, BODY HORROR, and WEIRD FICTION

Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (S. Baring-Gould) ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; Thomas Hardy

Jerome K. Jerome ; Rudyard Kipling ; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ; Arthur Machen

Mary Louisa Molesworth (Mrs Molesworth) ; Edith Nesbit (E. Nesbit, E. Bland)

Robert Louis Stevenson ; Bram Stoker ; H. G. Wells ; Oscar Wilde

EARLY VICTORIAN HORROR (1830 - 1865)

ELEGANT GHOST STORIES, PREMONITIONS, TALES of PATHOS, and FOLK LEGENDS

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Miss Braddon) ; Charlotte Brontë ; Emily Brontë

Rhoda Broughton ; Edward Bulwer-Lytton ; Wilkie Collins

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Mrs Craik) ; Catherine Crowe

Charles Dickens ; Amelia B. Edwards ; Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs Gaskell)

Margaret Oliphant (Mrs Oliphant) ; George W. M. Reynolds

Charlotte Riddell (Mrs J. H. Riddell) ; Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat)

Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood)

GOTHIC & GEORGIAN HORROR (1795 - 1830)

GROTESQUE GHOST STORIES, the GOTHIC NOVEL, SENSATIONAL HORROR, and EROTIC VIOLENCE

William Blake George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Sir Anthony Carlisle (Ms Carver)

Samuel Taylor Coleridege ; John Keats ; William Godwin ; Lady Caroline Lamb

Francis Lathom ; Matthew Gregory Lewis ("Monk" Lewis) ; Charles Maturin

Eliza Parsons ; John William Polidori ; Ann Radcliffe (Mrs Radcliffe)

Clara Reeve ; Mary Robinson ; Regina Maria Roche

Sir Walter Scott ; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Percy Byssche Shelley ; Horace Walpole

{1859-1930}
Recommended Readings -
The Captain of the Pole-Star
The Bully of Brocas Court
The Leather Funnel
The Story of the Brown Hand
The Speckled Band
The Devil’s Foot
A Pastoral Horror
The Silver Hatchet
The Striped Chest
John Barrington Cowles
Lot No 249
The Horror of the Heights
De Profundis
The Ring of Thoth
Through the Veil
Playing with Fire
How it Happened

{1854 -1900}
Recommended Readings -
'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
The Canterville Ghost

{1834 -1924}
Recommended Readings -
Jean Bouchon; Pomps and Vanities; McAllister; The Leaden Ring; The Mother of Pansies; The Red-Haired Girl; A Professional Secret; H.P.; Gamr; Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story; The Merewigs; The Bold Venture; Mustapha; Little Joe Gander; A Dead Finger; Black Ram; Happy Release; The 9:30 Up-Train; On the Leads; Aunt Joanna;The White Flag

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{1788 - 1824}
Recommended Readings -
The Giaour
Darkness
Manfred
A Fragment from a Turkish Tale
Fragment of a Novel

{1717 - 1797}
Recommended Readings -
The Castle of Otranto
Hieroglyphic Tales

{1757 - 1827}
Recommended Readings -
Fair Elenor
A Poison Tree
London
The Clod and the Pebble
The Tyger
Infant Sorrow
Jerusalem

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{1816-1855}
Recommended Readings -
'Jane Eyre'
The Spell
The Twelve Adventurers

{1814 - 1887}
Recommended Readings -
Gina Motani
A Tomb in a Foreign Land
The Self-Convicted
All Souls' Eve
A Mysterious Visitor
Adam Grainger
The Ghost
Reality or Delusion?
Rupert Hall
Katarina Orsini
A Curious Experience
The Ebony Box

{1835 -1915}
Recommended Readings -
The Cold Embrace; Eveline's Visitant; My Wife's Promise; The Scene-Painter's Wife; Sir Philip's Wooing; John Granger; At Chrighton Abbey; Her Last Appearance; Dr Carrick; The Shadow in the Corner; The Face in the Glass; From a Doctor's Diary; A Revelation; My Dream; His Oldest Friends; The Ghost's Name; The Island of Old Faces; Good Lady Ducayne

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{1871 -1914}
Recommended Readings -
The Expected Guest
Mnsgnr. Maxwell's Tale
Fr. Jenk's Tale; Fr. Meuron's Tale; Fr. Brent's Tale; Fr. Bianchi's Tale; Fr. Stein's Tale; Mr Bosanquet's Tale; The Fr. Rector's Tale; Fr. Girdlestone's Tale; Fr. Martin's Tale; Fr. Macclesfield's Tale; Mr. Percival's Tale; Fr. Maddox's Tale; My Own Tale

He Cometh and He Passeth By
Immortal Bird
Look Up There!
A Black Solitude
A Kink in Space-Time
Blind Man's Bluff
Damp Sheets
Day-Dream in Macedon
Death of a Bumblebee
Professor Pownall's Oversight
The Gorge of the Churels
The Red Lodge
The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster
The Triumph of Death

{1867-1940}
Recommended Readings -
The Other Bed; The Horror-Horn; Between the Lights; The Bus Conductor; The Outcast; The Face; The Room in the Tower; The Cat; Caterpillars; How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery; The House with the Brick Kiln; Inscrutable Decrees; Negotium Perambulans; Mrs. Amsworth; The Terror by Night; The Corner House; ‘And No Bird Sings’; The Confessions of Charles Linkworth; A Tale of an Empty House; Bagnell Terrace

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Edwardian Horror : 1900 - 1920

VIOLENT GHOST STORIES, WEIRD FICTION, MYSTICAL FANTASIES, and COSMIC HORROR

BRITISH & IRISH

MASTERS of HORROR

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British and Irish of horror, ghost stories, weird fiction, and the gothic.

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EDWARDIAN & INTERWAR HORROR (1900 - 1935)

VIOLENT GHOST STORIES, WEIRD FICTION, MYSTICAL FANTASIES, and COSMIC HORROR

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Edward Frederic Benson (E. F. Benson) ; Arthur Christopher Benson (A. C. Benson)

Robert Hugh Benson (R. H. Benson) ; Algernon Blackwood ; A. M. Burrage ; Bernard Capes

Walter de la Mare ; L. P. Hartley ; William Hope Hodgson ; William Wymark Jacobs (W. W. Jacobs)

Montague Rhodes James (M. R. James) ; Perceval Landon ; Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) ; Barry Pain ; Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany

Elliott O'Donnell ; Oliver Onions ; Matthew Phipps Shiell (M. P. Shiel); H. R. Wakefield

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LATE VICTORIAN HORROR (1865 - 1900)

TRAGIC GHOST STORIES, REVENGE NARRATIVES, BODY HORROR, and WEIRD FICTION

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Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (S. Baring-Gould) ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; Thomas Hardy

Jerome K. Jerome ; Rudyard Kipling ; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ; Arthur Machen

Mary Louisa Molesworth (Mrs Molesworth) ; Edith Nesbit (E. Nesbit, E. Bland)

Robert Louis Stevenson ; Bram Stoker ; H. G. Wells ; Oscar Wilde

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EARLY VICTORIAN HORROR (1830 - 1865)

ELEGANT GHOST STORIES, PREMONITIONS, TALES of PATHOS, and FOLK LEGENDS

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Miss Braddon) ; Charlotte Brontë ; Emily Brontë

Rhoda Broughton ; Edward Bulwer-Lytton ; Wilkie Collins

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Mrs Craik) ; Catherine Crowe

Charles Dickens ; Amelia B. Edwards​ ; Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs Gaskell)

Margaret Oliphant (Mrs Oliphant) ; George W. M. Reynolds

Charlotte Riddell (Mrs J. H. Riddell) ; Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat)

Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood)

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GOTHIC & GEORGIAN HORROR (1795 - 1830)

GROTESQUE GHOST STORIES, the GOTHIC NOVEL, SENSATIONAL HORROR, and EROTIC VIOLENCE

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Charles Dickens ; Amelia B. Edwards ; Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs Gaskell)