popular vampire fiction books
Man has a desire to get frightened[phpbay] This is evident from the ghost stories told and retold over centuries[phpbay] This desire to get frightened had given birth to thousands of horror stories over ages[phpbay] Almost all the languages around the globe have a particular section of literature called horror literature which has gained prominence in the past few decades[phpbay] Most often, horror stories are called fiction as they carry imaginary stories revolving around supernatural powers, evil forces and black magic[phpbay]
The fiction intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the audience gained popularity as literature since the 1960s[phpbay] This type of fiction often overlaps science fiction or fantasy and is also called speculative or supernatural fiction[phpbay] In most of the big cities there are horror book store that sell books based on horror fiction[phpbay]
Even though not as a polished literary form, the horror stories prevailed years back as tales of demons and vampires in folklores[phpbay] But as a literature it gained popularity in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries[phpbay] The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein were the famous horror fiction books of the nineteenth century[phpbay] The first American horror novel was The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irvin[phpbay] Edgar Allen Poe, H[phpbay]P[phpbay] Lovecraft and M[phpbay]R[phpbay] James were some of the finest ghost stories writers of English language[phpbay]
The contemporary horror books have moved way for extreme violence or shock to entertain the readers[phpbay] The horror books by Ramsey Campbell and Thomas Ligotti have widely been accepted by the readers[phpbay] The expansion of horror literature to a wider audience took place in the 1920’s with the rise of the American pulp magazine[phpbay] The book Weird Tales depicted many stories by Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E[phpbay] Hoffmann Price, Seabury Quinn, C[phpbay]M[phpbay] Eddy, Jr[phpbay] and Robert Bloch, thereby making horror literature much popular[phpbay]
Many critics consider “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka and “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner as some of the best horror books in literature[phpbay] Bram Stoker, Peter Straub, R[phpbay]L[phpbay] Stine and Ray Bradbury fall into the category of some of the finest horror writers of the English language[phpbay]
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