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Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century)

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  • 1914 first published
  • 486 pages
  • 20 editions
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Walker, Hugh, Sir Walter Scott and Charles Lamb's Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) (1914) is a gothic fiction and horror story collection. Much of the action takes place in Valley of the Many-Colored Grass and Heaven. It features Eleonora, Ermengarde and Roderick Usher. Key subjects include Fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition and burial vaults.

It has been published in 20 editions.

It runs to roughly 486 pages — 8–9 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Characters

Subjects

  • American Horror tales
  • American Short stories
  • Children's fiction
  • Fear
  • Horror
  • Horror stories
  • Pendulums
  • Spanish Inquisition
  • Burial vaults
  • Catalepsy
  • Dragons
  • Gothic fiction
  • Hermitages
  • Heroic romances
  • Horror tales
  • Hysteria

Quick answers

Who wrote Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century)?

Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) was written by Walker, Hugh, Sir Walter Scott and Charles Lamb and first published in 1914.

What genre is Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century)?

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

How long is Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century)?

The median edition has 486 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century)?

Readers who like it often enjoy Poems and Tales [12 stories, 16 poems], The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe in Six Volumes - Vol. I - Tales of Imagination and The Annotated Poe [26 stories, 6 poems].

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