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In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator Victor Rivas. [1]
"Berenice" is a short horror story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story is narrated by Egaeus, who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He tends to fall into periods of intense focus, during which he seems to separate himself from the outside world.
The poem serves as an allegory about a king "in the olden time long ago" who is afraid of evil forces that threaten him and his palace, foreshadowing impending doom. As part of "The Fall of the House of Usher", Poe said, "I mean to imply a mind haunted by phantoms — a disordered brain" [1] referring to Roderick Usher.
"What the Moon Brings" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on June 5, 1922. This story was first published in the National Amateur in May 1923. [1] It's shorter than most of Lovecraft's other short stories, and is essentially a fragment. The story is based on one of Lovecraft's dreams, a common technique.
Battleground (short story) The Beast in the Cave; The Belonging Kind; Berenice (short story) Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2) The Birds (story) Black Canaan; The Black Cat (short story) Black Colossus; The Black Stranger; Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper; The Boarded Window; The Body Snatcher; The ...
Jack Prelutsky, Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep; Jack Prelutsky, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep; Alvin Schwartz, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; J. Otto Seibold, Vunce Upon a Time; Jerry Seinfeld, Halloween; Erica Silverman, Big Pumpkin; Erica Silverman, The Halloween House
The Raven and Other Poems, Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1845. Poe first brought "The Raven" to his friend and former employer George Rex Graham of Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia. Graham declined the poem, which may not have been in its final version, though he gave Poe $15 (equivalent to $491 in 2023) as charity. [31]
Unheimliche Geschichten (a.k.a. Uncanny Stories, The Living Dead) is a 1932 German horror film which merges three Poe short stories and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club. Universal Pictures made two films titled The Black Cat , one in 1934 , starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff , and another in 1941 , starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone .