Title: Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
Description: The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving --
El verdugo / Honoré de Balzac --
The story of the Greek slave / Captain Marryat --
The iron shroud / William Mudford --
Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan LeFanu --
[The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
The doom of the Griffiths / Mrs. Gaskell --
Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford --
Torture by hope / Villiers de L'Isle-Adam --
The diamond necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling --
Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Sleepyhead / Anton Chekov --
His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow --
The gravedigger's daughter / Léopold von Sacher-Masoch --
[An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce --
Vengeance / Lorimer Stoddard --
[Désirée's baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e%E2%80%99s_Baby) / Kate Chopin --
The squaw / Bram Stoker --
A dreadful night / Edwin L. Arnold --
The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram --
Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells --
The story of the Brazilian cat / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The dead smile / F. Marion Crawford --
A game of chess / Robert Barr.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction, Fiction, Horror tales, short stories, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, History, United States Civil War, Classic Literature, hanging, Confederacy, Union, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction, Crime in fiction, Delitos, Detective and mystery stories, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, Murder in fiction, short story
Places: Louisiana, L’Abri, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Peyton Farquhar
Time periods: 19th century, Antebellum era, Civil War, 1861-1865, American Civil War, 1861-65