A Romantic Terror

People love to be scared. After all, why else would we have a holiday devoted to dressing up and scaring family, friends, and neighbors? It is from people’s love of fear that this collection of stories came about. Horror stories—that is, the ones that truly terrify their listeners or readers—stay with us for years and years after they are told or read. The stories in this collection are all tales of terror written by Romantic authors that people still read today.