Author: Arthur Machen

Language: English

Published: 1917

One of Machen's best horror novels. A series of murders take place, but who or what is responsible?

Author: Kealan Patrick Burke

Language: English

Published: 2010

For Dean, it begins with a dare, one that comes with the threat of violence if he chickens out. All he has to do is date Stephanie Watts, a disfigured girl who is the pariah at their high school. Dean agrees, and soon discovers that there is much more to Stephanie Watts than anyone dared imagine, and deadlier secrets awaiting him...underneath. A free short story from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY, THE HIDES, and VESSELS.

Language: English

Published: 1899

In the safe sheltered comfort of a winter's fire, as the title suggests, these stories of horror will rouse tolerable shudders; but elsewhere they had best be avoided. They are worse than ghost stories, for they haunt the mind even more than they work on the nerves. Even the cheerful nightmares among them, like "Dinah's Mammoth," and such flippant ones as "William Tyrwhitt's 'Copy,'" have this effect. Science--probably quite bad science--has inspired a few; not one has been suggested by a commonplace circumstance. On the whole, they are difficult reading--which is some defence against their powers of haunting--the produce of a restlessly inventive brain, which frets itself overmuch in its task of entertaining a stupider public than it has any notion of. The tales are clever and original; but we don't advise Mr. Capes to continue this task, where Mr. Wells easily surpasses him.

Contents: The moon stricken -- Jack and Jill -- The vanishing house -- Dark Dignum -- William Tyrwhitt’s "copy" -- A lazy romance -- Black Venn -- An eddy on the floor -- Dinah's mammoth -- The black reaper -- A voice from the pit.

Author: G. Wells Taylor

Language: English

Published: 2010

Variant Squad Captain Joe Borland returns in PAINKILLER, a gut-wrenching novella of grisly horror. Dreams and reality collide in the shadow of the Variant Effect.

Author: Matthew Sawyer

Language: English

Published: 2009

An ancient demon awakes to confront supernatural forces that prey upon an unguarded world. Pazuzu awakes to fight evil with evil. The demon first needs a human body. It finds Benedict Ishkott wandering alone and empty in the wastes of the Shur. One amnesic carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

Author: Albert Berg

Language: English

Published: 2010

When a man receives a seemingly innocuous painting from a colleague that has recently committed suicide, he finds himself slowly being dragged down by an inexorable force into the awful depths of insanity.

A Short Horror Story

Author: Amanda Lawrence Auverigne

Language: English

Published: 2010

On Halloween night, best friends Katy and Dana meet a mischievous little boy while walking home after trick or treating.

Author: Albert Berg

Language: English

Published: 2010

In the dark heart of space, a derelict freighter drifts empty and lifeless. And in the shadows...something waits.

Language: English

Published: 1908

A strong tale of the supernatural.

Author: Alexander Huth

Language: English

Published: 1899

The Wonder Club had its home in the ancient hostelry know as 'Ye Headless Ladye,' situated in the centre of two cross-roads in one of the Midland counties. More than two hundred years ago the members--a very select company--met there regularly, and regaled each other with stories. Their enemies--those not admitted to the gathering--called the club 'The Morbid Club,' and some of the tales here collected lend a suggestion of appropriateness to the name. There is an old-world air about all of the stories that will appeal to many. For winter evenings, when the reader is seated before a glowing fire and bright lights gleam cheerfully, these stories are well suited; and much gratification--of the 'creepy' sort--grim amusement, and stirring of the nerves will then be obtained from them.

A Romance

Author: Guy Newell Boothby

Language: English

Published: 1898

Mr. Boothby has proved himself a master of the art of story-telling from the point of view of the reader who asks for a succession of stirring events, a suspicion of mystery, and an interest not only maintained but culminating. It would be unfair to explain the extraordinary character of "Pharos," or to do more than allude to the series of strange adventures wherein he plays a leading part. It is enough to assure Mr. Boothby's readers of delightful thrills and an interest which this vivid romancer never permits to flag.

Part One: Skin Eaters

Author: G. Wells Taylor

Language: English

Published: 2010

VARION was a popular medication that could cure anything from Anxiety and Depression to Schizophrenia and Zoophagia. Everybody took it back in the day, because there were no side effects... ...AT FIRST. By the time they learned about the Variant Effect it was too late.

The old building in a rundown part of Metro was a perfect place to find a body, but they wouldn't have dragged Joe Borland out of retirement if it still had its skin. It's been 20 years since Borland battled the Variant Effect, and 20 since he let his partner get skinned alive. Now both of them are ordered back into action to meet a terrifying new threat.

Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Language: English

Published: 1869

This brief story is full of pathos, genius, and theology. It is what the Germans call "a story with a tendency;" in other words, a story designed to establish and enforce an opinion. But notwithstanding this, it is not without great merit in plot and character. Perhaps the most remarkable feature is the truth and power with which the feelings are portrayed of one who has lost a nearest and dearest friend. The skill with which the doctrine of the story is defended, and the narrowness of extreme Orthodoxy is set forth and illustrated, is admirable in its way, and is at times irresistible. The gentle and human Christian faith and hope, which are everywhere inspired,—a faith and hope which walk firmly in the rough pathway of earthly duty and sacrifice, while yet "the sufferer constantly looks serenely and almost seraphically into the world of spirits—give to the book its crowning grace and its surpassing excellence. The defects which a critical judgment might detect, are lost sight of in the comparison with its manifold excellencies.

Author: Larry Winfield

Language: English

Published: 2010

Banjo Strings is an epic and graphic tale of antebellum ghosts, supernatural spies, and a den of iniquity amid the Red Maple and Magnolia trees.

Language: English

Published: 1924

Author: H.P. Lovecraft

Language: English

Published: 1933

Author: H.P. Lovecraft

Language: English

Published: 1933

Language: English

Published: 1936

A weird and uncanny tale about a strange criminal who called himself Doctor Satan, and the terrible doom with which he struck down his enemies.

Author: E.J. Liston

Language: English

Published: 1948

What strange dimension was this where giants, gangsters, Lucretia Borgia, dwarfs and Rip Van Winkle lived at the same time?

Author: Earl Peirce

Language: English

Published: 1936

A powerful story of stark horror, and the dreadful thing that happened in a lone house in the Maine woods.

Author: Chester S. Geier

Language: English

Published: 1948

All Hager had to do was slow the dogsled to a walk, and his partner died. A perfect crime—no chance to get caught!

Language: English

Published: 1936

A strange and curious story is this, about a banker whose only fear was that he might be buried alive, like his grandfather before him...

Language: English

Published: 1936

A strange, brief tale of the terrible fear inspired by a man's horrendous reflection in a mirror

Language: English

Published: 1936

It was a tale of sheer horror that old Asa Gregg poured into the dictaphone.

Author: David Henry Keller

Language: English

Published: 1937

A grim tale of torture, and the blind men who were chained to pillars in an underground cave.

Author: Pearl Norton Swet

Language: English

Published: 1936

The amethyst-covered boots had been worn by an evil wanton in medieval Florence—but what malefic power did they carry over into our own time?

Author: Gerald Vance

Language: English

Published: 1942

Ward Harrison got himself into a barrel of trouble when he accepted a job at the Martian Observation Station. There were fearful "things" on Mars....

Language: English

Published: 1937

Creeping, writhing, insidiously crawling and groping, the long arm reached out in its ghastly errand of death.

Language: English

Published: 1936

A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.

Author: Mór Jókai

Language: English

Published: 1899