Hic! It's the Annual Horde of Halloween Horrors!

As Halloween is almost upon us, it is time for another round of horrible happenings.  Our theme this year: thirteen tales of horrific romance! 

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "The Cold Embrace": Guy jilts girl, girl has other ideas.   

Gottfried Bürger, "Lenore":  The dead ride fast.

Eugene Field, "The Werewolf": One leg of a medieval love triangle turns out to have an awkward problem (you may need to search).  

Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Old Nurse's Story": Two sisters feud over a handsome music teacher, with unfortunate results.  

Julian Hawthorne, "Ken's Mystery": Flirting with women who sit on graves is not always the best plan.  

Rudyard Kipling, "The Phantom Rickshaw": A man's cruelty in the aftermath of an affair comes back to bite him.    

J. S. Le Fanu, "Schalken the Painter": When arranging a marriage, it is generally a good idea to ask why the intended husband is not breathing.  

M. G. Lewis, "The Cloud-King": Young woman chooses the wrong elemental, discovers that the next day's menu is not at all to her liking.  

Florence Marryat, "The Ghost of Charlotte Cray": An older woman who has been badly treated is not letting the man off so easily...

Edith Nesbit, "John Charrington's Wedding": Some ghosts are determined not to let death stand in the way of marriage.

John William Polidori, "The Vampyre": Where the fad for sexy vampires began.  

Frank Stockton, "The Spectral Mortgage": A new ghost in town finds romance (you may need to scroll down).  

Edith Wharton, "The House of the Dead Hand": A young woman is unable to escape her father's obsession with a painting by Leonardo.