The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror: The top ten horror short stories of all time.

Written by Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker and 7 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker and Christopher Ragland

The top 10 horror short stories of all time.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

Fear has a home – the human mind. Although we know the outcome will not be good, we DO open that door, we DO peek and go where others have severely warned us not to go. These ten masters of their art and craft await your presence.

1 - The Top 10 - The Horror Story - An Introduction

2 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

3 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

4 - The Horla by Guy de Maupassant

5 - August Heat by W F Harvey

6 - The Monkeys Paw by W W Jacobs

7 - Lost Hearts by M R James

8 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft

9 - The Vampyre by John William Polidori

10 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

11 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Apr 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781839678530

Edgar Allan Poe

New York Times bestselling author Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Department of Economics. He has also held a visiting professorship at MIT’s Media Lab. He has appeared on CNN and CNBC, and is a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.