"Who are the Living?", a story by Clark Ashton Smith originally published in the magazine "Weird Tales" allows us to cover the topic of "Descensus ad Inferos" (Descent into Hell)
Through "For the Blood is the Life", tale by F. Marion Crawford from his 1911 collection of weird fiction "Uncanny Tales", We explore vampires rooted in ancient myths and superstitions.
Study on Charles Dickens and "Christmas Carol" and his exact opposite, Johnny Craig's "And All Through the House", a classic from the EC Comics era and its novelization prior to the film "Tales from the Crypt".
The short story "The Human Factory", by Oskar Panizza, is considered one of the first dystopian representatives of modern literature, as it was published in 1890 and therefore long before the much better known ones.