It is commonly said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. That may be a way to fortify our reason and rationality but all too often it merely escalates the panic and irrationality so that every sentence we read or hear has the ability to shred nerves and common sense in next to no time.
Why would we allow authors to do this to us? The truth is we enjoy it. Fear may be frightful but it is also enormous fun. Unless, of course, they take it too far. Which in many cases our classic authors including Edgar Allan Poe, H P Lovecraft, Edith Nesbit, W W Jacobs and a host of others certainly do.
1 - Short Stories About Fear - An Introduction
2 - The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
3 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit
4 - Cool Air by H P Lovecraft
5 - My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling
6 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs
7 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
8 - The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe
9 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
10 - An Uncomfortable Bed by Guy de Maupassant
11 - Fear by Catherine Wells
12 - How They Stopped the 'Run' by Anthony Hope
13 - The Gray Man by Sarah Orne Jewett
14 - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe
15 - The Waxworks by A M Burrage
16 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs
17 - The Cobweb by Saki
18 - The Power of Darkness by Edith Nesbit
19 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
20 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
