[Ads-l] horror novel

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

This article mentions ghost stories, supernatural stories, and Edgar
Allan Poe stories. Children gather around a "large fire on a cold
winter evening" with a storyteller, and "one tale of horror succeeds
another".

Date: 1886 January 17
Newspaper: Sunday Globe-Republic
Newspaper Location: Springfield, Ohio
Article: Ghosts!
Quote Page 5, Column 2
Database: Newspapers.com
https://www.newspapers.com/article/springfield-news-sun-horror/208675503/

[Begin excerpt]
The circle grows smaller, all heads bend toward the fire, the lights
burn dimmer, and all sit far into the night, as one tale of horror
succeeds another, until the story-teller suddenly gives a terrific
shriek, and we all start up with frozen blood and staring eyes, while
the room seems full of ghostly shapes, and we imagine we hear the
rustle of shadowy wings.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > I did also add a relevant, but bracketed, 1869 reference to "the mysterious-horror
> > novel of the Radcliffe school", in a discussion of the evolution of genres of novel.
>
> This 1872 citation might also be relevant when discussing the
> evolution "horror" referring to the horror genre.
>
> Date: August 8, 1872
> Newspaper: The Kenosha Telegraph
> Newspaper Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin
> Article: The Dessert
> Quote Page 6, Column 3
> Database: Newspapers.com
> https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-telegraph-courier-horrror/208664405/
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> A story comes from Paris recalling Edgar Poe's tales of horror. One
> evening, lately, a certain Marie F. came home, accompanied by a man.
> Presently she went to a cabaret, saying that her companion wanted
> drink ...
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson

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