Andrew Barger: 13 books

For the first time in one anthology, Andrew Barger has compiled the best werewolf stories from the period when werewolf short stories were first written. The stories are “Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages,” “The Man-Wolf,” “A Story of a Weir-Wolf,” “The Wehr-Wolf:...

The best horror short stories from the last half of the nineteenth century are combined for the first time by Andrew Barger, award-winning author and editor of 6a66le: Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849. Andrew has meticulously researched the finest Victorian horror short stories and combined...

Unearthed from long forgotten journals and magazines, Andrew Barger has found the very best vampire short stories from the first half of the 19th century. They are collected for the first time in this groundbreaking book on the origins of vampire lore. The cradle of all vampire short stories in the...

"The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849" was an award winning finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Andrew Barger, the editor and author of the award winning “Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life,” read over 300 horror short stories to compile the 12...

Ghost stories became very popular in the first half of the nineteenth century and this collection by Andrew Barger contains the very scariest of them all. Some stories thought too horrific were published anonymously like “A Night in a Haunted House” and “The Deaf and Dumb Girl.” The later...

Andrew Barger, award-winning author, editor and engineer, has extensively researched forgotten journals and magazines of the early 19th century to locate groundbreaking science fiction short stories in the English language. In doing so, he found what is possibly the first science fiction story by...

An award finalist in the International Best Book Awards, Mailboxes - Mansions - Memphistopheles is the first short story collection by Andrew Barger, award winning author of Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life and The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology....

After reading War & Peace, Fyodor Dostoevsky put the book down and said, "The fool hath said in heart there is no God." Yet, Tolstoy's shorter novels (i.e., novellas) are filled with all the war, adventure, comedy, religion, tragedy, and Russian tradition that inhabit the longer novels...

"Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" branded Tolstoy as one of the greatest writers in modern history. Few, however, have read his wonderful short stories. Now, in one collection, are the 20 greatest short stories of Leo Tolstoy, which give a snapshot of Russia and its people in...

This is the free prologue to The Divine Dantes trilogy by Andrew Barger! “. . . a lively and good-natured work with a great deal of humor and wordplay . . ..” —Publisher's Weekly Reviewer “ . . . reminds me a little of the fun I find in Carl Hiaasen or Christopher Moore, but...

In "The Brownie of the Alabaster Mansion" Andrew Barger brings a precocious monster of antiquity back to life. At times the tale is dark, at times it is funny. This is a short story contained in his first collection entitled MAILBOXES - MANSIONS - MEMPHISTOPHELES.

Book I of The Divine Dantes trilogy was a "best second novel" finalist in the Indie Book Awards. Now, in this final installment of the popular trilogy, Eddie finds himself on a cruise with his beloved Beatrice. There will be mayhem, love and of course rock-n-roll.The Divine Dantes is a trilogy...

Book 2 of The Divine Dantes's Infernal Trilogy finds Eddie and Virgil in Barcelona, Spain. Eddie, the young rocker with an active mind, thinks they are there to get on a cruise. Virgil, however, has tricked Eddie and arranged for Bea to secretly meet them. Meantime, Virg and Eddie visit famous Barcelona...