It's that time of year again! I've had houses on my mind, so it's only logical that this year's theme be...yes...nineteenth-century (and a few Edwardian) haunted house tales. The occasional poem also wanders by.
(Previous Halloween posts: Victorian gothic; a collection of historical horror links, true and fictional; various horror stories; Madame Tussaud's in 1886; creepy art.)
- "The Old Lady's Story"
- Algernon Blackwood, "The Empty House"
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "The Shadow in the Corner"
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, "The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, the House and the Brain"
- Bernard Capes, "An Eddy on the Floor" (strictly speaking, a haunted jail story)
- Dinah Mulock Craik, "The Last House in C-- Street"
- Charles Dickens, Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell, The Haunted House (this group effort was All the Year Round's Christmas Number in 1859)
- Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Old Nurse's Story"
- Thomas Hood, "The Haunted House" (a poem)
- M. R. James, "Number Thirteen"
- Perceval Landon, "Thurnley Abbey"
- J. S. Le Fanu, "An Account of Some Disturbances in Aungier Street"
- J. Warren Newcomb, Jr., "Three Nights in a Haunted House"
- Fitz-James O'Brien, "The Lost Room"
- Margaret Oliphant, "The Secret Chamber"
- Sir Walter Scott, "The Tapestried Chamber"
- Bram Stoker, "The Judge's House" (plot very similar to "Aungier Street," above)
- H. G. Wells, "The Red Room"
- James Reynold Withers, "The Haunted House" (poem)
Saki (H.H. Munro) "Sredni Vashtar"
http://faculty.tnstate.edu/lpowers/Short%20Story/Saki%20Shredni%20Vashtar%20Bull%20Open%20Window.pdf
Posted by: Bruno Cattivabrutto | October 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM