This is short biography & an excerpt of an interview with children's author Joan Aiken. She speaks about her influences, ideas, and future writings.

Lesson which requires learners to listen to The Tell-Tale Heart read aloud, answer prediction questions during the reading, and write written responses after. Excellent for beginning a mystery unit.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic written pieces from famous authors. One work is "How to Write a Blackwood Article," a work written by the author, Edgar Allen Poe.

This Virginia Commonweath University site provides a biography, bibliography, criticism, and resources on the works of Shirley Jackson.

Harriet Beecher Stowe threw gas on the fire of the slavery issue with the publication of her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Read about her background as an abolitionist, and find out the influence her book had in the North and even in Great...

Several related stories are featured here as heard on National Public Radio, mainly centered around King's National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters.

Classic Reader provides a number of historical fiction pieces from famous authors. One work is a ghost story, Count Magnus, which was first published in 1904. It is part of the "The Ghosts of Antiquary" series written by Montague Rhodes...

This site from Bibliomania provides the reader with a brief but factual biographical sketch of the author, Mary Shelley. Includes link to the full text of her famous work, Frankenstein.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is "The Dead Sexton." This short ghost story was written in early 1900's by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

Read the full text of the short story "The White Ship" by science fiction and horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.

In this classic horror story, will a traveler be lured into the wood of the dead? Read the full text of the short story by Algernon Blackwood.

Read the short story "The Tree" by American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft.

Read the full text of the novella "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood which is an example of early modern horror.

Provides a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, one of "the greatest and unhappiest of American poets, master of the horror tale, patron saint to the practitioners of the detective story."

Read the full text of the horror short story "Herbert West: Reanimator" by H.P. Lovecraft.

Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes is a horror story about two teenage boys. This site explores in detail the characters, important themes and quotations in the story.

Read the fantasy short story "Celephais" by horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Horace Pippin, an American folk painter known for his depictions of African American life and of the horrors of war.

Investigate the biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe who was a woman who wrote about the horrors of slavery before the Civil War.

Read the horror story "A Case of Eavesdropping" by Algernon Blackwood.

Text of the short story "The Picture in the House" by H. P. Lovecraft. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Polaris" by H. P. Lovecraft, an American author of 'weird' fiction. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Nyarlathotep" by H. P. Lovecraft, an American author of 'weird' fiction. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

While this article is focused on Mr. Herbert's assessment of drawing, the introduction offers a glimpse of evaluation of The Secret Battle.