Top Ten Early Gothic Novels In chronological order, this is my list of the top ten Gothic novels, published before 1850. Let's get star...

  A Descent Into the Maelstrom  by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of the best horror short stories originally published in the English l...

  The number of libraries purchasing a copy of  Tolstoy's short stories  that I edited is growing by leaps and bounds. Follow this link ...

 It is well known that Robert Smith writes the lyrics for Cure songs. In my view, he is one of our greatest modern poets given his depth of ...

  For those of you who are interested in paranormal, I wanted to let you know about a website that tracks hotel deaths . You can find it at ...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine  was very popular in its day. Edgar Allan Poe even lampooned some of its over-the-top stories in his  How...

  Tolstoy under the tree! "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" branded Tolstoy as one of the greatest writers in modern h...

  TED Video on the Origins of Vampires in Literature "The myth of the bloodsucking vampire has stalked humans from ancient Mesopotamia ...

Just in time for the holidays, The Best Vampire Short Stories 1800-1850 is now available in for the first time in hardcover. You can buy i...

  Annika Barranti Klein has recently given a good overview article on Book Riot regarding the history of werewolves and vampires in the UK a...