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| 1 | Stories From The Shadows – 1850 &n | Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Amy Levy, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, Arabella Kenealy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mew, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte Riddell, Clara Venn, Edith Nesbit, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Page Mitchell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Ella D'Arcy, Fernan Caballeron, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, H. G. Wells, Hesba Stretton, Israel Zangwill, Jack London, Jan Neruda, Jean Lorrain, John Buchan, Lafcadio Hearn, Leo Tolstoy, Lettice Galbraith, Louisa Baldwin, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Marcel Schwob, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Cholmonderly, Mary E Penn, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Oscar Wilde, Rhoda Broughton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosa Mulholland, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Vsevolod Garshin, Wilkie Collins & William Hunt |
| An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories. But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event? Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you. |
