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Short stories in the genre of gothic fiction. See also Category:Horror short stories. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S.
"The River" is a Southern gothic short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor that was first published in 1953 about a very young boy who is taken by his babysitter to a preacher at a Christian healing where he is baptized in a river, and, the next day, runs away from home to the site of his baptism and baptizes himself, and then is ...
A main character chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, coloured bright red in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's vigil.
"The Dead and the Moonstruck" is a coming-of-age tale with a gothic twist. "Have No Fear, Crumpot Is Here" is about a boy that is forced to go on a summer trip to Italy that he will never forget. "Stone Tower" is a story that is a mix of fairy tale and gothic. "The Prank" is about two characters that suffer from guilt. One person from an older ...
[1] Some of the characters' surnames implied their roles in the story (Mr and Mrs Frightfully-Busy were workaholics, [10] Johnny Bullneck is an aggressive school bully, [11] and Serena Slurp is greedy) [12] whereas the more ridiculous the family name is, the more unpleasant they are in the story: Fedora Funkelfink the con artist; [13] and the ...
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]
Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night is a children's horror anthology compiled by Alice Low and illustrated by Gahan Wilson.It was published in 1994, and contains nineteen stories by various authors.
The most influential Gothic writer from this period was the American Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote numerous short stories and poems reinterpreting Gothic tropes. His story "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) revisits classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death, and insanity. [59] Poe is now considered the master of the American Gothic. [1]