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The Tell-Tale Heart
A man insists he's sane. This does not go well.
Edgar Allan Poe · Short story
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The snow-image, and other twice-told tales
A mountain holds a face, a man builds a house of marble, and time never stops turning.
Nathaniel Hawthorne · collection
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
A plague ravages Florence, so ten friends hide in a villa to gossip professionally.
Giovanni Boccaccio · short-story
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The King in Yellow
A stage play turns its readers into walking disasters. The city is just collateral damage.
Robert W. Chambers · collection
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They return at evening
A murderer mocks the law, a chess player faces a ghostly rival, and the dead refuse to remain quiet at evening.
Herbert Russell Wakefield · short-story
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Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
From murderous cats to phantom toes, twenty-five accounts of the supernatural range from the psychological to the suspiciously culinary.
W. Bob Holland · collection
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The call of Cthulhu
A man inherits a box of clippings and discovers the stars are finally aligning for a giant, gelatinous apocalypse.
H. P. Lovecraft · short-story
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
An antiquarian’s curiosity proves hazardous as long-dead monks, cursed ash trees, and forgotten whistles unleash specific, physical, and very angry spirits.
M. R. James · collection
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The Masque of the Red Death
A prince attempts to outrun a fatal pandemic by welding his doors shut and throwing a very expensive party.
Edgar Allan Poe · short-story
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The Shunned House
A century of tragedy in a cellar, until the narrator brings a carboy of acid.
H. P. Lovecraft · Short story
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The Damned Thing
An invisible predator stalks the wilderness, but the jury is only interested in your sanity.
Ambrose Bierce · Short story
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Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories
A collection of sleuths, secrets, and enough missing pages to fill a police report.
Joseph Lewis French · Collection
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The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
Two vagabonds claim a kingdom, a traveler finds a village of the dead, and the colonial heat breeds restless ghosts.
Rudyard Kipling · collection
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The Monkey's Paw
An old soldier brings a mummified paw to tea, turning a modest mortgage payment into a domestic horror story.
W. W. Jacobs · short-story
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The Big Fix
Telepathy and horse racing collide; it turns out human nature is still just as messy as ever.
George O. Smith · Short story
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The Fall of the House of Usher
An old friend visits a crumbling estate where the architecture is as unstable as the family’s sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe · short-story
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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
A law student, a secretary, and several medical students encounter spectral visitors in isolated cabins and drafty city rentals.
Algernon Blackwood · collection
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The mark of the monster
A man returns to a rotting village to save his partner from a basement-dwelling horror.
Jack Williamson · Short story
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Tales of terror
Professional men encounter things that shouldn't exist, and things that certainly do.
Dick Donovan · Collection
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Howard Pyle's Book of pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
A collection of grim maritime encounters where treasure usually comes with a side of betrayal and a sharp dirk knife.
Howard Pyle · short-story
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Fairy dreams
A prince kneels, a hermit chats with ospreys, and the frost paints pictures on a bedroom window.
Jane G. Austin · collection
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Mosses from an old manse
A man wanders his garden, stares at his reflection, and finds ghosts in the furniture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne · collection
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