Hello.

Does anybody know about a good weird fiction story from the 19th century that should deserve more attention than it has received?

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> Hello.
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> Does anybody know about a good weird fiction story
> from the 19th century that should deserve more
> attention than it has received?


Quite a lot, I highly advise you to check out "The Finding of Lot's Wife" by Alfred Clark and "The Doom of Mamelons" by W. H. H. Murray for example.

Thanks! I will try these out.

--Sawfish

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Thank you very much! I have never heard about the authors at all so I am definitely going to give them a try.

No problem : D I also advise you to read Leonid Andreyev and "The statue in the air" by Caroline Eaton Le Conte : D

These are some of my favorites:

E.A. POE - Manuscript Found in a Bottle

BULWER-LYTTON - The Coming Race

N. Hawthorne - Rappacinni's Daughter
N. Hawthorne - The Celestial Railroad
N. Hawthorne - The Prophetic Pictures
N. Hawthorne - Earth's Holocaust
N. Hawthorne - The Birthmark
N. Hawthorne - Chapter 18 of "House of Seven Gables"3

Theophile Gautier - THE EVIL EYE
Theophile Gautier - SPIRIT LOVE

Best regards,

PS

The way the question is framed makes it hard to contribute. I can tell if I like a story, but it is harder to tell if it has received less attention than it deserves.

After I read THE SHINING PYRAMID (1895) by Arthur Machen, I was a bit surprised that I had never heard of it before. But I don't think it deserves to be more famous than THE WHITE PEOPLE or THE GREAT GOD PAN.

I was also impressed by H.G. Wells' THE SEA RAIDERS (1896) and equally surprised that I had never heard of it before I read it. But that's just me, I guess. HG Wells is sufficiently well known that none of his work is truly forgotten.

I could list many 19th century stories that I consider worth reading, without necessarily claiming that the deserve to be more well known than they are.

"The Family of the Vourdalak" (1839) by A. Tolstoy, written in French, and published in Russian in 1884. I found it recently on youtube, and was shocked that I had never heard of it before, as I thought all the early examples of vampire fiction had all been pretty-well tracked down. But it never appeared in English until 1978.



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Nice one.

Will definitely track this down.

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I read H. G. Wells' "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid", which was fairly entertaining. He wrote very straightforward, matter of fact, with many scientific tools and props at his hand; all except atmosphere.
But I really enjoyed The First Men in the Moon when I was younger, very colorful, and think I shall eventually revisit it.