The Storm

"The Storm" (sometimes reprinted as "The Midnight Storm") is a short story, written by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, and published anonymously in Tales of the Dead (1813). Development Sarah Elizabeth Utterson translated some stories into English from Fantasmagoriana (1812), a French collection of German ghost stories. She also wrote "The Storm", and included it with these translations as the fifth of six stories, publishing them anonymously as Tales of the Dead (1813). In the introduction she wrote: Utterson added an epigraph to the start of each of the stories in Tales of the Dead, in the tradition of Ann Radcliffe and M. G. Lewis. For "The Storm", Utterson used a quote from Mark Akenside's The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744): Plot