Cover of Scary Stories

Scary Stories

  • 1994 first published
  • 2 editions

Published in 1994, Scary Stories is a gothic fiction and horror story collection by Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Avallone and Theodore D. Gottlieb. Much of the action takes place in Toledo. Characters include Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher and Ethelred. It deals with crime, first-person narrative, Homicide and Hyperesthesia.

Themes, setting & tropes

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Setting

Characters

Subjects

  • American Horror tales
  • Children's fiction
  • Classic Literature
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • First-person narrative
  • Gothic fiction
  • Homicide
  • Horror
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror stories
  • Horror tales
  • Hyperesthesia
  • Murder
  • American Short stories

Quick answers

Who wrote Scary Stories?

Scary Stories was written by Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Avallone and Theodore D. Gottlieb and first published in 1994.

What genre is Scary Stories?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction, Horror and Dragon Fiction.

What books are similar to Scary Stories?

Readers who like it often enjoy Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century), The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition and Great American Short Stories.

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