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You probably already know how it goes, but in case you don’t, I’ll just say this: be careful what you wish for. You really can’t have a list of great scary stories without this classic, whose influence can be seen all over culture, both scary and not-so. But somehow this horror isn’t even the most terrifying part - but I’ll let you read it to find out what is. It concerns a torture device that kills the convicted persons (all accused are convicted) by hewing the law they’ve broken into their bodies. My personal favorite of Kafka’s stories won’t jump out and scare you like boo, but it will deposit a metallic chill at the base of your spine for days to come. Gilman’s classic of feminist literature tracks the mental state of a woman locked away with “slight hysteria” and her descent, so confined, into actual psychosis - first believing there are people living in the wallpaper, then believing she is one of them. “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Just two things, or maybe three.” Read it here.Ī classic, gloomy ghost story from a master of the form. One of the scariest short stories of all time, and not a supernatural creature in sight. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” Joyce Carol Oates Many of Gaitskill’s stories are disturbing - bizarre situations, violent sexuality, a strange neutral stance towards it all - but this one, about a father who sees his own fantasies about murdering women in his son, is a real horror story for 2014. Vampiric, murderous Snow White and her necrophiliac Prince Charming: lips as red as blood. Neil Gaiman is another writer with a number of scary stories to his name, but this one simply haunts. Maureen (that’s the ship) will have to decide. Of course, they may or may not be in a horror story themselves. Listen to it here.Ī bunch of people sitting around in a space ship telling ghost stories in varying shades of creepy and bizarre. Then, he escapes, to inflict his love on other creatures of the world. A tiger falls in love with his keeper and expresses it the only way he knows how. Originally published in Granta’s Horror issue, this might be the most terrifying love story you’ll ever read. “The Infamous Bengal Ming,” Rajesh Parameswaran Read it here.īradbury has a number of scary stories to choose from, including the famous and existentially terrifying “There Will Come Soft Rains,” but I always come back to “The Veldt.” What’s more terrifying, the lions, the house or the children? Read it here. “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” Harlan EllisonĮllison’s 1967 cult classic is a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi version of hell, in which the last four survivors on the planet are tortured by a vindictive and all-powerful computer.
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So whether you yearn for classic horror or literary fiction guaranteed to make your skin crawl, read on. And remember: like beauty, fear is in the bloody eye of the beholder. Now, there’s more to scary stories than goblins, ghouls, blood and your general horror - here there be monsters of many kinds, existential and literal, extraordinary and everyday. Get out your flashlights, because a scary story awaits - actually, make that fifty of them. *The link takes you to a page with some but not all of HPL's short stories.It’s that time of year again, when the pumpkins come out, the fake cobwebs are hung and we feel that dormant urge to be chilled, thrilled and spooked to our bones. Just scroll down towards the bottom of the page to find the link.
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Perilous Press has it (the story) in PDF format here. His name is Cody Goodfellow and his short story In The Shadow Of Swords is a bizarre Lovecraftian story set against the Iraqi aftermath of the Gulf war. Well, I found another one by someone I've never heard of before. So has Ramsey Campbell, Henry Kuttner ( The Salem Horror comes to mind there), Karl Edward Wagner ( Sticks)- even Stephen King's disturbing short story Jeruselum's Lot (not to be confused with his vampire novel 'Salem's Lot) is a wonderful Lovecraftian tale. Robert Bloch has done some terrifying work in the spirit of HPL, most notably his short story Notebook Found In An Abandoned House. There are others who have read, re-read and studied HPL's works so much that they want MORE and so began to write in the Lovecraftian style. I'm not the only one and that's for damn sure. As you all (should) know by now, I am a major fan of H.P.