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TreasonousBastard

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7. Not much is really that memorable, but...

Reply to raccoon (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 01:29 PM

Jan 2016

reading them is an experience. He hints about terror, instead of spelling it all out.

I got chills reading his short novel "At the Mountains of Madness".

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Can anyone recommend any terrific 19th Century ghost story writers such as Bram Stoker [View all] raccoon Jan 2016 OP

Edgar Allen Poe? packman Jan 2016 #1

Yep, Poe's worth a re-read. nt raccoon Jan 2016 #6

W.W. Jacobs wrote "The Monkey's Paw" in 1902. Adsos Letter Jan 2016 #2

Me too. I know he wrote other stories; wonder if any of the rest were that scary. nt raccoon Jan 2016 #5

Not exactly what you're looking for, but... TreasonousBastard Jan 2016 #3

Read some of his stuff when I was in college and T rex roamed the earth. Might be worth a go at his raccoon Jan 2016 #4

Not much is really that memorable, but... TreasonousBastard Jan 2016 #7

Have you read The Woman in White? pscot Jan 2016 #8

Yes. I love Wilkie Collins. nt raccoon Jan 2016 #9

How about Henry James hermetic Jan 2016 #10

Read it in college. Maybe I'll give it another try. Turn of the raccoon Jan 2016 #11

Dion Fortune is not quite 19th century and the occult rather than ghosts specifically was PufPuf23 Jan 2016 #12