![]() ![]() ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, an 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has the structure and style of a diary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘ The Yellow Wallpaper’. Andrew Lang called the story ‘poisonous stuff which has left an extremely disagreeable impression on my mind’, while William Sharp recommended the story be burnt as a ‘detestable piece of work’.ĩ. This early story by Rudyard Kipling, written when he was still in his early twenties and living in India, is our choice. Perhaps no pick of classic Gothic horror stories would be complete without at least one werewolf tale, or story about lycanthropy. Rudyard Kipling, ‘ The Mark of the Beast’. Written when ‘Egyptomania’ – European interest in all things from ancient Egypt – was at its height in late Victorian England, this tale features a reanimated mummy in what might be regarded as a riff on both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Conan Doyle’s own Sherlock Holmes stories (there is an element of mystery and suspense in the story, with the full truth only become apparent during the story’s dramatic denouement).Ĩ. ![]() One of the best Gothic short stories on the subject of Egyptology, this 1892 tale shows why Conan Doyle was such a master of the short-story form. We have analysed this classic horror story here.ħ. ![]()
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