Now that we are several stories into my countdown of the best horror short stories from 1800-1849, I wanted to let you know what stories I have excluded from being considered for this list. It does not contain stories of ghosts, werewolves, the devil, witches, vampires, fantasy, murder mysteries or science fiction. The later explains why William Mumford’s The Iron Shroud is not included. Its futuristic mechanisms necessitate that this fantastic story be placed in the sci-fi genre despite its horrific elements.
No excerpts from novels, which are typically called “fragments,” are included here. It is acceptable, however, from my perspective, to take a story from a long narrative that combines or links multiple short stories such as Dickens’s The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club or Arabian Days' Entertainments by William Hauff. Finally, only fiction stories are included here that have been translated into the English language at some point. Tomorrow I will reveal the author of the next horror story from this fifty year period. Cheers!
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