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Short stories in the genre of gothic fiction. See also Category:Horror short stories. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S.
The "arabesque" stories focus on a single aspect of a character, often psychological, such as "The Fall of the House of Usher". [7] A distant relative of Poe, modern scholar Harry Lee Poe , wrote that "grotesque" means "horror", which is gory and often disgusting, and "arabesque" means "terror", which forsakes the blood and gore for the sake of ...
Berenice (short story) Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2) The Birds (story) Black Canaan; The Black Cat (short story) Black Colossus; The Black Stranger; Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper; The Boarded Window; The Body Snatcher; The Boogeyman (short story) The Book (short story) Books of Blood; The Boy Who ...
"The Dead and the Moonstruck" is a coming-of-age tale with a gothic twist. "Have No Fear, Crumpot Is Here" is about a boy that is forced to go on a summer trip to Italy that he will never forget. "Stone Tower" is a story that is a mix of fairy tale and gothic. "The Prank" is about two characters that suffer from guilt. One person from an older ...
M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kinder der Toten (1995) Rikard Jorgovanić, Love upon the Catafalque (1876), Dada (1878) and A Wife and a Lover (1878)
"A Terrible Vengeance" (Russian: Страшная месть, romanized: Strashnaya mest') is a short Gothic horror story written by Nikolai Gogol. [1] It was published in the second volume of his first short story collection, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, in 1832, and it was probably written in late summer 1831. [2]
A main character chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, coloured bright red in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's vigil.
"Lot No. 249" is a Gothic horror short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1892. The story tells of a University of Oxford athlete named Abercrombie Smith who notices a strange series of events surrounding Edward Bellingham, an Egyptology student who owns many ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a mummy.