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01 Aug Beyond the Pale

Posted at 11:00h in Children and Childhood, Classic Horror and Public Domain, Conspiracies and Government, Locations and Sites, Natural Disasters and Storms, Nature and the Outdoors 0 Comments

My grandfather would tell me stories when I was young about the time before when the world was large and the mists had yet to come. He would tell me about animals that were larger than humans and buildings that stretched into the sky. There...

22 Jan The Man Who Returned

Posted at 00:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain 0 Comments

John Woodford in his first moments of returning consciousness was not aware that he was lying in his coffin. He had only a dull knowledge that he lay in utter darkness and that there was a close, heavy quality in the air he breathed. He...

13 Jan To Build a Fire

Posted at 00:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain, Nature and the Outdoors 0 Comments

Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-traveled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank, and he...

30 Dec August Heat

Posted at 11:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain 0 Comments

PHENISTONE ROAD, CLAPHAM, August 20th, 19—. I have had what I believe to be the most remarkable day in my life, and while the events are still fresh in my mind, I wish to put them down on paper as clearly as possible. Let me say at the...

21 Dec The Colour Out of Space

Posted at 11:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain, Cosmic Horror and Lovecraftian Stories, Science Fiction 0 Comments

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the...

15 Dec Dagon

Posted at 11:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain, Cosmic Horror and Lovecraftian Stories, Science Fiction 0 Comments

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from...

06 Dec The Shadow out of Time

Posted at 13:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain, Cosmic Horror and Lovecraftian Stories, Science Fiction 1 Comment

Part I After twenty-two years of nightmare and terror, saved only by a desperate conviction of the mythical source of certain impressions, I am unwilling to vouch for the truth of that which I think I found in Western Australia on the night of July 17–18,...

27 Nov The Monkey’s Paw

Posted at 15:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain, Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult 3 Comments

“Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.” - Anonymous Part I Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Laburnum villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed...

03 Nov The Empty House

Posted at 11:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain 0 Comments

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves...

15 Sep His Unconquerable Enemy

Posted at 11:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain 0 Comments

I was summoned from Calcutta to the heart of India to perform a difficult surgical operation on one of the women of a great rajah’s household. I found the rajah a man of a noble character, but possessed, as I afterwards discovered, of a sense...

18 Jun The Salem Horror

Posted at 11:00h in Beings and Entities, Classic Horror and Public Domain, Ghosts and Spirits, Locations and Sites, Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult 1 Comment

When Carson first noticed the sounds in his cellar, he ascribed them to the rats. Later he began to hear the tales which were whispered by the superstitious Polish mill workers in Derby Street regarding the first occupant of the ancient house, Abigail Prinn. There...

01 Apr Herbert West—Reanimator

Posted at 11:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain, Cosmic Horror and Lovecraftian Stories, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Medical and Hospitals, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction, Zombies and the Undead 1 Comment

I. From the Dark Of Herbert West, who was my friend in college and in after life, I can speak only with extreme terror. This terror is not due altogether to the sinister manner of his recent disappearance, but was engendered by the whole nature of...

29 Jan The Music of Erich Zann

Posted at 06:00h in Classic Horror and Public Domain 0 Comments

I have examined maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found the Rue d’Auseil. These maps have not been modern maps alone, for I know that names change. I have, on the contrary, delved deeply into all the antiquities of...

01 Aug Beyond the Pale

22 Jan The Man Who Returned

13 Jan To Build a Fire

30 Dec August Heat

21 Dec The Colour Out of Space

15 Dec Dagon

06 Dec The Shadow out of Time

27 Nov The Monkey’s Paw

03 Nov The Empty House

15 Sep His Unconquerable Enemy

18 Jun The Salem Horror

01 Apr Herbert West—Reanimator

29 Jan The Music of Erich Zann

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