Saturday, May 28, 2022

"Lady Eleanor's Mantle" by Hawthorne, a tightly-woven scary short story of pestilence

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Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was no stranger when it came to telling a scary ghost story. His "Legends of the Province House...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Top ten List of the Best Ghost Short Stories for the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by Andrew Barger

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  Top 10 Ghost Stories for the First Half of the 19th Century. The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology 10. The Ghostly V...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

What's Up, Witches! A Witchy Video for You.

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Friday, April 15, 2022

Where are J.D. Salinger's New Books - Novels - Stories?

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  What's in Salinger's Closet (Year 12) J.D. Salinger—The Great Uncommunicator.  The only thing more frustrating than the self-impos...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

Did Poe Write a Werewolf Story? by Andrew Barger

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  Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) wrote scary stories in a number of supernatural genres. He did not invent the horror short story, but he took ...
Friday, April 1, 2022

Madame Crowl's Ghost by Joseph Le Fanu - Full Text

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    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) For lovers of a good scary short story, let’s all tip our top hats to Charles Dickens, the author of...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Early Gothic Novels - My Top Ten List

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 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...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Andrew Barger's Review of "A Descent into the Maelstrom" by Edgar Allan Poe

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  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...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated is at a Library Near You

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  The number of libraries purchasing a copy of  Tolstoy's short stories  that I edited is growing by leaps and bounds. Follow this link ...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

A Sonnet by Robert Smith of The Cure from the Disintegration Album

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 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 ...