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"From the Tideless Sea" (Part I.) by William Hope Hodgson (A Rare and...
NOTES BY M. GRANT KELLERMEYER: Aside from “Carnacki the Ghost-Finder,” Hodgson is probably most famous for what has been referred to as his Sargasso Sea Mythos – a series of horror stories set in the...
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"Out of the Storm" by William Hope Hodgson (A Rare and Forgotten Story...
NOTE BY M. GRANT KELLERMEYER: The following remarks on this story come from Mr. Chris William’s 2008 article on “Out of the Storm” from his superb horror blog, TenHornedBeast. Mr. Williams’ words...
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"The 'Shamraken' Homeward-Bounder" by William Hope Hodgson (A Rare and...
NOTE BY M. GRANT KELLERMEYER: One of the few stories in this book to have attracted critical attention outside of the horror world, “The ‘Shamraken’ Homeward-Bounder” takes a place alongside the works...
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"The Harbor-Master" by Robert W. Chambers (A Rare and Forgotten Story...
NOTE BY M. GRANT KELLERMEYER: While many fans of H. P. Lovecraft assume that Chambers’ influence on him begins and ends with The King in Yellow, the following story attracted a great deal of excitement...
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"The Key to Grief" by Robert W. Chambers (A Rare and Forgotten Story...
NOTE BY M. GRANT KELLERMEYER: A “key” in nautical geography is a low, sandy island that juts out of a sunken reef. This makes the more obvious meaning of the “key to grief” no less poignant: it is a...
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Algernon Blackwood's The Glamour Of the Snow: A Two-Minute Summary and...
A wintry fantasia of Nature, Death, and the Sublime, “The Glamour of the Snow” features one of Blackwood’s most deceptively disturbing stories. While it lacks the psychological terror of “The Wendigo”...
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Ambrose Bierce's Some Haunted Houses (The Spook House and Others): A...
“Some Haunted Houses” is easily one of Bierce’s most entertaining series of tales. I recommend it as the ideal Hallowe’en reading choice – a collection of pithy short stories that exude the gloomy...
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death: A Two-Minute Summary and...
Often considered a parabolic meditation on the invincibility of death – a mere prose expansion of “The Conqueror Worm” – “The Masque of the Red Death” suffers from an underappreciation of its brooding...
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Green Tea: A Two-Minute Summary and Analysis of the...
With the sole exception of “Carmilla,” “Green Tea” reigns as J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s most widely celebrated and well-known supernatural tale. I know of many people who, when asked if they know anything...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's The Old Nurse's Story: A Two-Minute Summary and Analysis...
Elizabeth Gaskell – like Broughton and Oliphant – wrote ghost stories with a critical (and notably feminist) perspective of British society. Her fiction explored the unstable nature (and looming doom)...
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Rhoda Broughton's Behold, It Was a Dream: A Two-Minute Summary and Analysis...
Like her first ghost story, “Nothing But the Truth,” the following tale is an example of Rhoda Broughton’s brilliant ability to infuse the dreadful into the domestic. Another story built on a...
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Rhoda Broughton's Nothing But the Truth: A Two-Minute Summary and Analysis of...
In the cold February of 1868, Sheridan Le Fanu's Welsh niece, Rhoda Broughton, published her first ghost story: "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth" -- a chilling episode based on...
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Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog: A Two-Minute Summary and Analysis of the Classic...
Poe’s final tale of horror was inspired by two actual events: the first was the social scandal aroused by a spurned woman, and the other was a ghastly event of Medieval French history called the Ball...
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E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Lost Reflection: A New Year's Eve Adventure -- A...
In 1810 Hoffmann began teaching music to Julia Mark, the teenaged cousin of one of his close friends. Hoffmann met her when she was twelve – about a year after the death of his infant daughter, and not...
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A Christmas Carol: Inspirations, Interpretations, and a Deep Analysis -- A...
Arguably Dickens’ most famous work, there is something inescapably archetypal about “A Christmas Carol.” Its heavyweight power to charm, chill, and awe has made it one of the most adapted pieces of...
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E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Stranger Child: A Two-Minute Summary and Analysis of...
One of Hoffmann’s most common motifs – the hallmark of his fiction – is the theme of parallelism. His fantasies are unlike typical fairy tales in that they don’t depict wondrous things happening in a...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Analyses, Interpretations, and Inspirations --...
As we all know, Arthur Conan Doyle was the most significant contributor to the detective story genre – what Verne and Wells were to science fiction, or what Tolkein and Lewis were to fantasy. And yet –...
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Of Dreams that Wave Before the Half-Shut Eye: A Sleepy Hollow Ghost Story for...
Raw from her parents’ recent deaths and a crushing divorce, an anthropology professor is now faced with losing her chance at tenure and decides to spend her fall break in Sleepy Hollow, New York in a...
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Ambrose Bierce's The Boarded Window: A Two-Minute Summary and Analysis of the...
Perhaps Bierce’s most anthologized horror story, “The Boarded Window” has remained a staple of American Gothicism since its publication, though with little commentary. As with so many of his stories,...
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The Savagely Brutal, Bitterly Mournful Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce...
“GHOST, n. The outward sign of an inward fear” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s DictionaryHe was the successor of Edgar Allan Poe and a harbinger of H. P. Lovecraft, penning some of the most shocking,...
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