Horror Short Story Picks!
I started a discussion in Kindle Forums, asking for readers' favorite horror short stories. Their picks were surprising and there were several scary stories I had not read. Provided are a few links on Amazon where you can purchase these tales in anthologies I have edited.
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat (2), The Cask of Amontillado (4), The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Pit and the Pendulum
- Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Algernon Blackwood: The Willows (2)
- Robert Chambers: The King in Yellow, The Yellow Sign
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
- Neil Gaiman: Don't Ask Jack, October in the Chair
- Clive Barker: The Body Politic, Hellbound Heart
- Shirley Jackson: The Summer People (2), The Lottery
- Mary E Wilkins: The Wind in the Rose-Bush
- Joyce Carol Oates: Night-Side
- Robert Bloch: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper, The Night Before Christmas
- Ray Bradbury: The Crowd, The Veldt
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Haunters and the Haunted
- Theodore Sturgeon: Vengeance is
- Peter Straub: A Short Guide to the City
- Cortozar: House Taken Over
- E.F. Benson: The Room in the Tower
- George R.R. Martin: Sandkings
- Stephen King: Quitters Inc. (2), Mrs. Todd's Shortcut (2), Crouch End (2), Breathing Method, One for the Road, The Reaper's Image, The Reach, The Mangler, Rainy Season, The Ledge, The Jaunt, Survivor Type, The Mist, Sundog
- James Everington: A Writer's Words, The Other Room
- Jeffrey Deaver: Beautiful
- H.P. Lovecraft: In The Vault, The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour out of Space (2), Dreams in the Witch House, The Outsider, The Music of Eric Zann, Shadow Over Innsmouth
- Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan (2), Haunter of the Dark
- R.L. Stevenson: The Merry Men
- Charles Grant: This Old Man, The Garden of Blackred Roses
- T.E.D. Klein: Children of the Kingdom
- Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla, Green Tea
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown, The Minister's Black Veil
- Robert E. Howard: Pigeons From Hell
- A.M. Burrage: The Waxwork
- H.R. Wakefield: He Cometh and He Passeth By
- Ramsey Campbell: The Guide, The Companion (2)
- M. R. James: Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you My Lad, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, Count Magnus
- L. M. Boston: Curfew
- Roger Johnson: The Wall Painting
- R. H. Malden: The Sundial
- Michael Shea: The Autopsy
- Robert Aickman: The School Friend, Into the Wood, The Swords
- Guy N Smith: Last Train
- Nigel Kneale: Minuke
- Ken Aldman: The Papal Magician
- John Collier: Evening Primrose
- Roald Dahl: Slaughter, Pig
- F. Paul Wilson: Soft
- Orson Scott Card: Eumenides, In The Fourth Floor Lavatory
- Peter Watts: The Things
- William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland, The Voice in the Night
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