Elements of Horror Fiction: - Wayne County

While horror stories are well rooted in myth and legend, particularly in some of the fairy tales collected in the 19th Century, Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque published in 1840 was a notable landmark. Even earlier was Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1765. Ghost stories were popular in the early 20th Century. ................
................