He has added his familiar scholarly touch by annotating the stories, providing story background information, author photos and a list of ghost stories considered to settle on the most frightening and well-written tales. It includes shocking tales from popular American and Victorian authors.Īndrew Barger (that would be me), award-winning author and editor of Phantasmal: Best Ghost Short Stories 1800-1849 and The Divine Dantes trilogy, has researched the finest ghost stories for the last half of the nineteenth century and combined them in one haunting collection. That's why I'm happy to announce my latest anthology: Best Ghost Short Stories 1850-1899: A Phantasmal Ghost Anthology is now published! It contains the best ghost stories from the last half of the 19th century. As he has done with a number of other books, Andrew Barger has added his scholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds, annotations, author photos and a foreword titled "All Ghosts Are Gray." Buy the book today and be ready to be scared.October is the month for ghosts on the scariest ghost stories blog. "The Mask of the Red Death," by Edgar Allan Poe "A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family," by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu "The Spectral Ship," by Wilhelm Hauff "The Old Maid in the Winding Sheet," by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Adventure of the German Student," and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," by Washington Irving as well as "The Tapestried Chamber," by Sir Walter Scott.
The other ghost stories in this fine collection are by famous authors. Some stories thought too horrific were published anonymously like "A Night in a Haunted House" and "The Deaf and Dumb Girl." The later story is collected for the first time in any anthology since its original publication in 1839. Ghost stories became very popular in the first half of the nineteenth century and this collection by Andrew Barger contains the very scariest of them all.
"The Mask of the Red Death," by Edgar Allan Poe "A Chapter in the.
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