Horror stories are reviewed in this blog that is focusing on classic horror short stories with free links. This Blog is edited by author Andrew Barger, editor of The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849. Visit: AndrewBarger.com to buy his books.
Picked as the 31st best classic horror short story from 1800-1849 is Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Enjoy the free link and in my next post I will give my thoughts on why it is such a fine horror tale.
Thanks for posting the link - I like the line "What, then, will be your fate? Beyond a doubt you are selected as the material of some new experiment. Perhaps the result is to be death; perhaps a fate more awful still."
"Yet Giovanni's fancy must have grown morbid while he looked down into the garden; for the impression which the fair stranger made upon him was as if here were another flower, the human sister of those vegetable ones, as beautiful as they, more beautiful than the richest of them, but still to be touched only with a glove, nor to be approached with out a mask."
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Thanks for posting the link - I like the line "What, then, will be your fate? Beyond a doubt you are selected as the material of some new experiment. Perhaps the result is to be death; perhaps a fate more awful still."
I find this to be creepy:
"Yet Giovanni's fancy must have grown morbid while he looked down into the garden; for the impression which the fair stranger made upon him was as if here were another flower, the human sister of those vegetable ones, as beautiful as they, more beautiful than the richest of them, but still to be touched only with a glove, nor to be approached with out a mask."
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