Stories Exploring the Fear of Death: Tales exporing the fear we all seem to share

That moment in time will come. It will be the end of this life and one of three things will happen. Nothing, Heaven or Hell. Somehow, for most people, the odds don’t look so good on laying back in Paradise for eternity. And we may be there alone or with people we never really liked or―or most probably, we don’t really have any coherent idea at all. Just the fear that the end is nigh.
Our literary friends including Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Mary Shelley and others probably mean well but their job here is to tackle fear head on and we may well end up not getting the answer we first thought of.

1 - Stories Exploring the Fear of Death - An Introduction

2 - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe

3 - The Coffin Maker by Alexander Pushkin

4 - The Cobweb by Saki

5 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

6 - Cool Air by H P Lovecraft

7 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley

8 - The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe

9 - The Dream by O Henry

10 - The Looking Glass by Anton Chekhov

11 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe