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Compendium of Horror, Fear, and the Grotesque

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Faces of Horror and the Grotesque

 

 

 

The following is a collection of the classic faces associated with horror, terror, fear, and the grotesque. Photos appear in no particular order. Enjoy!

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe

H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft

Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson

Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor

William Faulkner
William Faulkner

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe

Matthew "Monk" Lewis
Matthew G. "Monk" Lewis

Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole

Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker

William Godwin
William Godwin

Carl G. Jung
Carl Gustav Jung

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Stephen King
Stephen King

Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk

Amborse Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

D.R. Saliba
David R. Saliba

Charles Maturin
Charles Maturin

James Hogg
James Hogg

John E. Mack
John E. Mack

E.F. Benson
E.F. Benson

Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood

Villers d'Ille Adams
Villers d'Ille Adams

Ansky (Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport)
Ansky (Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport)

Jane Austen
Jane Austen

Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac

Anna Barbauld
Anna Barbauld

Francis Barrett
Francis Barrett

William Beckford
William Beckford

Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges

Charles Brockton Brown
Charles Brockton Brown

Robert Browning
Robert Browning

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Gottfried August Burger
Gottfried August Burger

Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers

Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin S. Cobb

Ralph Adams Cram
Ralph Adams Cram

Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe

Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare

Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant

Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

George du Maurier
George du Maurier

Edward Plunkett Dunsany
Edward Plunkett Dunsany

Hanns Heinz Ewers
Hanns Heinz Ewers

Theophile Gautier
Theophile Gautier

Johanns Wolfgang von Goethe
Johanns Wolfgang von Goethe

Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz

Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn

M.R. James
M.R. James

Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen

Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley

Prosper Merimee
Prosper Merimee

H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells

Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Bella Lugosi
Bella Lugosi

Lon Chaney Jr.
Lon Chaney Jr.

James Cheetham
James Cheetham

Steven Marshall (USA)
Steven N. Marshall

Whitley Strieber
Whitley Strieber

Wes Craven
Wes Craven

Robert Englund
Robert Englund

Rory Calhoun
Rory Calhoun

Deborah LeBlanc
Deborah LeBlanc

Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz