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The Best Horror Stories

  • 1990 first published
  • 398 pages
  • 4 editions

Published in 1990, The Best Horror Stories is a gothic fiction and horror novel by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury and John Keir Cross. It takes readers to Jefferson and Mississippi in the Antebellum era. It features Emily Grierson, Homer Barron and Mr. Grierson. Key subjects include crime, first-person narrative, Homicide and Hyperesthesia.

15 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions.

It runs to roughly 398 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Setting

Era

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
  • Premature burial

Quick answers

Who wrote The Best Horror Stories?

The Best Horror Stories was written by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury and John Keir Cross and first published in 1990.

What genre is The Best Horror Stories?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction and Horror.

How long is The Best Horror Stories?

The median edition has 398 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Best Horror Stories?

Readers who like it often enjoy Campfire Legends, The Realm of Fiction - 61 Short Stories and The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition.

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