This anthology contains a selection of early weird or speculative fiction; mostly with a slant towards the supernatural or horrific. The stories were all originally published between the 1850s and 1920s; biographical sketches of each of the authors appear at the end of each tale.
Contents include:
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram
Benlian by Oliver Onions
Man-Size in Marble by E. Nesbit
Negotium Perambulans by E.F. Benson
The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen
The Baumhoff Explosive or Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani by William Hope Hodgson
What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien
The Heights and a Rose by Alma Newton
Serapion by Francis Stevens
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
The People of the Pit by Abraham Merritt
The Horror-Horn by E.F. Benson
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Language
English
Pages
449
Format
ebook
Publisher
The Forlorn Press
Release
February 19, 2015
Weird Fiction: A Collection of Early Speculative Horror
This anthology contains a selection of early weird or speculative fiction; mostly with a slant towards the supernatural or horrific. The stories were all originally published between the 1850s and 1920s; biographical sketches of each of the authors appear at the end of each tale.
Contents include:
No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram
Benlian by Oliver Onions
Man-Size in Marble by E. Nesbit
Negotium Perambulans by E.F. Benson
The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen
The Baumhoff Explosive or Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani by William Hope Hodgson