Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquar tulum fore levatas.—Ebn Zaiat.
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow,
Classic and Contemporary Stories
by Every Writer Filed Under: Classic Horror, Poe, Edgar Allan
by Every Writer Filed Under: Bram Stoker, Classic Horror
The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker When the time for his examination drew near Malcolm Malcolmson made up his mind to go somewhere to read by himself. He feared the attractions of the seaside, and also he feared completely rural isolation, for of old he knew it charms, and so he determined to find some […]
by Every Writer Filed Under: Classic Authors, Classic Horror, Classic Short Story, Robert Louis Stevenson
by Every Writer Filed Under: Classic Authors, Classic Horror, Classic Short Story, Featured, Robert Louis Stevenson
by Every Writer Filed Under: Classic Horror, Classic Short Story, Poe, Edgar Allan, Short Short
by Every Writer Filed Under: Adventure, Classic Horror, Classic Short Story, HG Wells
The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells — Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and nibbled by fish, found early in 1896 by Mr. Jennings, near […]
by Every Writer Filed Under: Classic Horror, Featured, Horror Stories, Scary Stories
The Monkey’s Paw I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that […]
by Every Writer Filed Under: Classic Horror, Classic Short Story
by Every Writer Filed Under: Classic Horror, Classic Short Story, Horror Stories
by Every Writer Filed Under: Classic Horror, Classic Short Story, Horror Stories, Rudyard Kipling