A review by careinthelibrary
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 by Leslie S. Klinger

1.0

This was honestly pretty disappointing. Almost all of the stories would not qualify as horror by my definition, were not anywhere close. There were maybe five in total that were alright. The ones that WERE worth reading were "The Sand Man" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, not horror, but an entertaining story all the same, "The Upper Berth," by F. Marion Crawford which was the only one that really spooked me, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (this one was psychologically thrilling), "The Spider" by Hanns Heinz Ewers, and Bram Stoker's "The Squaw." Besides those -- and some of those were only alright -- the rest were banal, bland, uninspired, aged pieces that did not need to be reproduced in a collection of horror tales. None of them had the spine-chilling effect that Edgar Allan Poe manages in his pieces which is one of the main draws of this collection -- the title itself suggesting these pieces are in the same vein as Poe's horror works.