Coffee with Poe, award-winning finalist (historical biography category) of the USA Book News "Best Book Awards", is a historical novel detailing Edgar Allan Poe’s life. The book is filled with actual letters to his three fiancées, his literary contemporaries (Longfellow, Irving, and Hawthorne), and his bitter enemies. The characters are brought to life by interactive dialogue that may have taken place given what history teaches us. Read about the life of America's most haunting and mysterious author today and see Edgar Allan Poe brought to life like never before! “To give us a historical fiction look at Edgar Allan Poe is great. The start where we are at his mom's funeral gives a little insight into why he may write the way he does. It is very interesting the ideas the author has put into the story about Poe. I like the idea of detailing the life of Edgar Allan Poe into a historical fiction novel. . . . A great idea to give us some insight into why Poe may be the way he is.” Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Expert Reviewer

Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Barger, Andrew

Arts & Literature

Bottletree Books

Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated

Leo Nikolaivich Tolstoy was born on September 9th, 1828, at his father's estate, Yasnaya Polyana. After publication of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," Tolstoy became known as the finest Russian author of the nineteenth century. Before you are his 20 greatest short stories for the first time in one collection. They are filled with tales of love, war, royalty and poverty. Annotations are included of difficult Russian terms. The classic stories included are: A Candle After the Dance Albert Alyosha the Pot An Old Acquaintance Does a Man Need Much Land? If You Neglect the Fire You Don't Put It Out Khodinka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II Lucerne Memoirs of a Lunatic My Dream Recollections of a Scorer The Empty Drum The Long Exile The Posthumous Papers of the Hermit Fedor Kusmich The Young Tsar There Are No Guilty People Three Deaths Two Old Men What Men Live By

Literature & Fiction

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich

Short Stories & Anthologies

"Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" branded Tolstoy as one of the greatest writers in modern history. Few, however, have read his wonderful short stories. Now, in one collection, are the 20 greatest short stories of Leo Tolstoy, which give a snapshot of Russia and its people in the late nineteenth century. A fine introduction is given by Andrew Barger. Annotations are included of difficult Russian terms. There is also a Tolstoy biography at the start of the book with photos of Tolstoy's relatives. The classic stories include: A Candle After the Dance Albert Alyosha the Pot An Old Acquaintance Does a Man Need Much Land? If You Neglect the Fire You Don't Put It Out Khodinka: An Incident of the Coronation of Nicholas II Lucerne Memoirs of a Lunatic My Dream Recollections of a Scorer The Empty Drum The Long Exile The Posthumous Papers of the Hermit Fedor Kusmich The Young Tsar There Are No Guilty People Three Deaths Two Old Men What Men Live By

LEO TOLSTOY

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology

Transformation of the werewolf in literature made its greatest strides in the 19th century when the shape-shifting monster leapt from poetry to the short story. It happened when this shorter form of literature was morphing into darker shapes thanks in no small part to Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Prosper Mérimée, James Hogg, and so many others in Europe and the United States.The fifty year period between 1800 and 1849 is truly the cradle of all werewolf short stories. For the first time in one anthology, Andrew Barger has compiled the best werewolf stories from this period. The stories are "Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages," "The Man-Wolf," "A Story of a Weir-Wolf," "The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin," and "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains." It is believed that two of these fine stories have never been republished in over one hundred and fifty years since their original printing. Read "The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849" tonight, just make sure it is not by the light of a full moon!"

MARRYAT, FREDERICK

Crowe, Catherine

Genre Fiction

This classic werewolf anthology was picked as a Gothic Book Club Award Winner. In general, transformation of the werewolf in literature made its greatest strides in the 19th century when the shape-shifting monster leaped from poetry to the short story. It happened when this shorter form of literature was morphing into darker shapes thanks in no small part to Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Prosper Mérimée, James Hogg, and so many others in Europe and the United States.The fifty year period between 1800 and 1849 is truly the cradle of all werewolf short stories. For the first time in one anthology, Andrew Barger, award winning author of Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life and The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology, has compiled the best werewolf stories from this period.
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<li>1831The Man-Wolf by Leitch Ritche (1800-1865)</li>
<li>1846 A Story of a Weir-Wolf by Catherine Crowe (1790-1872)</li>
<li>1828 The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin by Richard Thomson (1794-1865)</li>
<li>1839 The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)</li>
<li>1838 Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages by Sutherland Menzies [Mrs. Elizabeth Stone] (1806-1883)</li>
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The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology (Best Short Stories 1800-1849)

Le Fanu, Joseph

John, Polidori

The best horror short stories from the last half of the nineteenth century are combined for the first time by Andrew Barger, award-winning author and editor of 6a66le: Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849. Andrew has meticulously researched the finest Victorian horror short stories and combined them into one undeniable collection. He has added his familiar scholarly touch by annotating the stories, providing story background information, author photos and a list of horror stories considered. Historic Horror. The best horror short stories from the last half of the 19th century include nightmare tales by Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Le Fanu, W. C. Morrow, H. G. Wells, Arthur Machen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and other early founders of the horror tale. <ul>
<li>A Terror Tour Guide (2016) by Andrew Barger (A leading voice in the gothic literature space, Andrew sets the stage for this anthology of nightmares.)</li> <li>The Pioneers of Pike’s Peak (1897) by Basil Tozer (Hoards of giant spiders on a Colorado mountain. What could go wrong?)</li> <li>Lot No. 249 (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Perhaps the premier mummy horror story ever recorded from the master that is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is measured out to its climatic ending.)</li> <li>The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Explore the depths of insanity.)</li> <li>Green Tea (1871) by Joseph Le Fanu (One of the most haunting horror stories by the Irish master.)</li> <li>What Was It? (1859) by Fitz James O’Brien (Sometimes the worst horror is one you can't see.)</li> <li>Pollock and the Porroh Man (1897) by H. G. Wells (Wells takes us deep into the jungle and its wrought supernatural horror.)</li> <li>The Spider of Guyana (1857) by Erckmann-Chatrian (The first giant spider horror story is one of its best.)</li> <li>The Squaw (1893) by Bram Stoker (The author of Dracula never disappoints.)</li> <li>The Great God Pan (1894) by Arthur Machen (Mythic horror that gained much praise from H. P. Lovecraft.)</li> <li>His Unconquerable Enemy (1889) by W. C. Morrow (A fiendish tale of torture sees Morrow at his best.)</li> <li>Horror Short Stories Considered (Andrew concludes the horror anthology by listing every horror short story he read to pick the very best.)</li> </ul>
Read the premier horror anthology for the last half of the nineteenth century tonight! “But it now struck me for the first time that there must be one great and ruling embodiment of fear, a King of Terrors to which all others must succumb.” 1859 “What Was It?” Fitz James O’Brien

Best Horror Short Stories 1850-1899: A 6a66le Horror Anthology (Best Short Stories)

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Stoker., Bram

Best Ghost Short Stories 1850-1899: A Phantasmal Ghost Anthology contains the best ghost stories from the last half of the 19th century. It includes shocking tales from popular American and Victorian authors including: Bram Stoker, M. R. James, Joseph Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Nesbit, and Francis Marion Crawford. Andrew Barger, award-winning author and editor of Phantasmal: Best Ghost Short Stories 1800-1849 and The Divine Dantes trilogy, has now researched the finest ghost stories for the last half of the nineteenth century and combined them in one haunting collection. He has added his familiar scholarly touch by annotating the stories, providing story background information, author photos and a list of ghost stories considered to settle on the most frightening and well-written tales. Victorians: Victors of the Ghost Story (2016) by Andrew Barger - Andrew sets the stage for this haunting ghost anthology. The Upper Berth (1886) by Francis Marion Crawford - You will never think of cruising on a ship the same way after reading "The Upper Berth". In Kropfsberg Keep (1895) by Ralph Adams Cram - A gothic setting yields a nightmare for a couple of "ghost hunters". Lost Hearts (1895) by M. R. James - This early M. R. James classic ghost story is one of his best. The Familiar (1872) by Joseph Le Fanu - Ever feel like you are being watched? The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly (1886) by Rosa Mulholland - You will never view an organ the same way again. No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man (1865) by Charles Dickens - Are the nervous habits of a train tracks operator all in his mind? Hurst of Hurstcote (1893) by Edith Nesbit - A moldering house and--of course--ghosts. The Judge’s House (1891) by Bram Stoker - The author of Dracula never disappoints. The Yellow Sign (1895) by Robert Chambers - A painter sees someone watching him from a busy New York street. The Haunted and the Haunters (1859) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton - The oldest and most haunting ghost short story in the anthology. I am deeply and horribly convinced, that there does exist beyond this a spiritual world—a system whose workings are generally in mercy hidden from us—a system which may be, and which is sometimes, partially and terribly revealed. “The Familiar” 1872 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Best Ghost Short Stories 1850-1899: A Phantasmal Ghost Anthology

Dickens Charles Charles

Frances Osgood Complete Short Stories

Osgood, Frances Sargent

"Then with the agility of a cat she sprang on his shoulders, struck him in the side with a broom, and he began to run like a race-horse, carrying her on his shoulders." Nikolai Gogol, Viy The cradle of modern witch short stories began in the first half of the 19th century. This anthology unearths the very best of these stories. Andrew Barger, a leading voice in the Gothic literature space, searched forgotten magazines, newspapers, journals and scholarly articles, to uncover the best witch stories written in the English language over one hundred years after the horrific events of the Salem Witch Trials. They had a lasting effect in both the U.S. and Europe, as these publications reflect from the many authors who penned witch stories in this genre. Andrew includes in his introduction to the collection, the actual text from the Salem Witch Trials. These classic witch stories that have been uncovered are unmatched. One is a humorous tale that stands, in the grand Irish tradition of great storytelling, shoulder to shoulder with Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1819) and Charles Dickens's "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (1836), as that rare combination of humor and horror that is so difficult to find. It is published for the first time in over a century and a half. What Andrew calls "America's first great witch short story" is also published for the first time in nearly two hundred years. As readers have come to expect from Andrew, he includes his scholarly touch to the anthology by providing introductions to each story and a foreword titled "Hags! Hags! Hags!" There are also illustrations for each story. Last, Andrew provides a list of stories considered at the end of the anthology. Read these witchcraft classics tonight! Hags! Hags! Hags! (2023) by Andrew Barger The Hollow of the Three Hills (1830) by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marvelous Legend of Tom Connor's Cat (1847) by Samuel Lover The Witch Caprusche (1845) by Elizabeth Ellet The Brownie of the Black Haggs (1827) by James Hogg Lydia Ashbaugh, the Witch (1836) by William Darby Young Goodman Brown (1835) by Nathaniel Hawthorne Viy (1835) by Nikolai Gogol Witch Short Stories Considered

Witchcraft Classics: Best Witch Short Stories 1800-1849

GÓGOL, NIKOLÄI

Hawthorne,Nathaniel

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Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life

Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated

Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology

The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology (Best Short Stories 1800-1849)

Best Horror Short Stories 1850-1899: A 6a66le Horror Anthology (Best Short Stories)

Best Ghost Short Stories 1850-1899: A Phantasmal Ghost Anthology

Frances Osgood Complete Short Stories

Witchcraft Classics: Best Witch Short Stories 1800-1849