“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Ghost stories became very popular in the first half of the nineteenth century and this collection by Andrew Barger contains the very scariest of them all. Some stories thought too horrific were published anonymously like "A Night in a Haunted House" and "
An anthology finalist in the NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS, The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849 delivers 12 of the greatest horror stories for the first half of the 19th century. Watch the creepy book trailer: http://andrewbarger.com/besthorrorsho