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Fragment Of A Novel, By Lord Byron

Fragment Of A Novel, By Lord Byron

This stylized, terrifying short story was written as part of a ghost story contest held between poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.

Posted on April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature8 Minutes Read

Wild Honey, By Horacio Quiroga

Wild Honey, By Horacio Quiroga

An accountant ventures complacently into the Jungle and is punished by a swarm of deadly ants. A classic horror tale by the father of Latin American short story.

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature7 Minutes Read

The Hand, By Guy de Maupassant

The Hand, By Guy de Maupassant

A man who keeps a severed hand attached to the wall of his drawing room is found mysteriously strangled at the same time that the hand disappears.

Posted on October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature8 Minutes Read

Dracula’s Guest, By Bram Stoker

Dracula’s Guest, By Bram Stoker

Dracula’s Guest was excised from the original Dracula manuscript by its publisher because of the length of the original book. It was published as a short story in 1914, two years after Stoker’s death.

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature20 Minutes Read

Mr. Lupescu, By Anthony Boucher

Mr. Lupescu, By Anthony Boucher

Mr Lupescu is a strange horror story by Anthony Boucher. It’s about a young boy who comes up with an imaginary friend when his mother leaves his father for another man.

Posted on September 23, 2018November 24, 2018 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature, Writing7 Minutes Read

A Haunted House, By Virginia Woolf

A Haunted House, By Virginia Woolf

‘A Haunted House’, both is and is not a ghost story. In less than two pages of prose, Woolf explores, summons, and subverts the conventions of the ghost story.

Posted on December 10, 2017January 20, 2019 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature3 Minutes Read

The Pit And The Pendulum, By Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit And The Pendulum, By Edgar Allan Poe

“The Pit and the Pendulum” is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition.

Posted on October 29, 2017January 20, 2019 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature25 Minutes Read

The Intruder, By Carolyn Kizer

The Intruder, By Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Posted on October 22, 2017November 24, 2018 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature, Classic Poetry1 Minute Read

William Wilson, By Edgar Allan Poe

William Wilson, By Edgar Allan Poe

An underrated classic and possibly Poe’s best horror story, this is about a man named William Wilson, who describes a disturbing encounter with his own doppelganger.

Posted on October 15, 2017November 24, 2018 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature33 Minutes Read

The Pale Man, By Julius Long

The Pale Man, By Julius Long

A man living in a small country hotel becomes obsessed with the only other permanent resident — a a strange pale man who inexplicably moves from room to room.

Posted on October 1, 2017November 24, 2018 by Featured WriterIn Classic Horror Stories, Classic Literature9 Minutes Read

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