Henry Carter Hull

''El cuento sucede en un castillo de un rico terrateniente, a donde ha llegado sin así planearlo un viejo amigo, al que no veía hacia mucho, el general Browne, recién llegado de América, en donde había participado en la guerra con Estados Unidos, camino a algún lugar se decide a visitar el Castillo que le ha llamado la atención, y se encuentra con su amigo, que le invita a hospedarse con él, ya que está celebrando una fiesta con muchos

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William Wilson es un relato corto de Edgar Allan Poe. Su ambientación está inspirada en los años de formación de Poe fuera de Londres. El cuento sigue el tema del "doble".

Fue publicado por vez primera por la revista Burton's Gentleman's Magazine en octubre de 1839, y más tarde apareció en la colección de 1840 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.

Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. It first appeared in 1845–1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls". The story was published in book form in 1847. It is of epic length: the original edition ran to 876 double-columned pages and 232 chapters. Altogether it totals nearly 667,000...

"It is the little death," they whispered. "When that yellow mist starts creeping, you'll wish you were dead, sir." Gavin Murdock, hardened manhunter, coldly eyed the evil miasma rising through the mystery spaceship and braced himself for unguessable horror.... - from Introduction

Elliott O'Donnell (1872-1965) was an English author known primarily for his books about ghosts. He claimed to have seen a ghost, described as an elemental figure covered with spots, when he was five years old. He also claimed to have been strangled by a mysterious phantom in Dublin (however, no permanent effect would seem to have been suffered).

His first book, written in his spare time, was a psychic thriller titled For Satan's Sake (1904).

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A Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, "A Sicilian Romance" was published anonymously in 1790.The plot revolves around the turbulent history of the fallen aristocrats of the house of Mazzini who lived in a castle on the northern shore of Sicily. The tale is told by a tourist who becomes intrigued by stories he hears from a monk he runs into while exploring the ruins of the old castle.The story itself is set in the late 1500s with the main characters being...

CONTENTS NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM LIGEIA MORELLA A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS THE SPECTACLES KING PEST. THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK

Gwendolyn Ranger Wormser was "...an unacknowledged mistress of psychological horror, haunting atmosphere, and adroit social criticism. Her deeply introspective stories of sentient scarecrows, shapeshifters, and specters also revealed the daily terror and abuse that women suffered in the early 20th century. Neglected since their 1918 publication, these twelve supernatural stories are deeply unsettling, lyrical, and uncanny…". [Goodreads]

"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It first appeared in Snowden's Ladies' Companion in three installments, November and December 1842 and February 1843. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). CONTENTS EDGAR ALLAN POE DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS...

This does not attempt to be an inclusive anthology. The ghostly poetry of the late war alone would have made a book as large as this; and an inclusive scheme would have ended as a six-volume Encyclopedia of Ghostly Verse. I hope that this may be called for some day. The present book has been held to the conventional limits of the type of small anthology which may be read without weariness (I hope) by the exclusion not only of many long and dreary...