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The Portrait
short story by Nikolai Gogol
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Morella
Gothic horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe
The Vampyre
short story by John William Polidori
Metzengerstein
"Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German" is a short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his first to see print. It was first published in the pages of Philadelphia's Saturday Courier magazine, in 1832. The story follows the young Frederick, the last of the Metzengerstein family, who carries on a long-standing feud with the Berlifitzing family. Suspected of causing a fire that kills the Berlifitzing family patriarch, Frederick becomes intrigued with a previously unnoticed and untamed horse. Metzengerstein is punished for his cruelty when his own home catches fire and t
The Haunter of the Dark
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Yellow Wall Paper
short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Man in the Case
short story by Anton Chekhov
The Thing on the Doorstep
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Music of Erich Zann
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lottery
1948 short story by Shirley Jackson
Herbert West—Reanimator
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Another Man's Wife and the Husband under the Bed
a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Rats in the Walls
1924 short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Dead
short story by James Joyce
In a Grove
1922 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Festival
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Man Who Would Be King
novella by Rudyard Kipling
Hop-Frog
"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking of his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta.
The Dreams in the Witch House
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Statement of Randolph Carter
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Christmas Eve
first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol
A Sound of Thunder
short story by Ray Bradbury
The Most Dangerous Game
short story by Richard Connell
The Killers
short story by Ernest Hemingway
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
short story by Alan Sillitoe
The Country of the Blind
short story by H. G. Wells
The Nine Billion Names of God
1953 short story by Arthur C. Clarke
The Oblong Box
short story by Edgar Allan Poe
The Outsider
short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft
Children of the Corn
short story by Stephen King
Fat and Thin
1883 short story by Anton Chekhov
The Sentinel
short story written by Arthur C. Clarke
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
dark comedy short story by Edgar Allan Poe
The Picture in the House
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
short story by Ambrose Bierce set during the American Civil War
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short story by Stephen King
Cool Air
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lurking Fear
1923 short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Bottle Imp
1891 short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
short story by Ernest Hemingway set in Africa
Brokeback Mountain
short story by Annie Proulx
Master and Man
short story by Leo Tolstoy
Young Goodman Brown
short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Paycheck
1952 novelette by Philip K. Dick
From Beyond
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lady, or the Tiger?
short story by Frank Stockton
The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church
short story by Nikolai Gogol
To Build a Fire
short story by Jack London
The Black Monk
novelette by Anton Chekhov
St. John's Eve
short story by Nikolai Gogol
The Egg
short story about the meaning and purpose of life and humankind
The King of the Elves
short story by Philip K. Dick
The Sisters
short story by James Joyce
Anyuta
short story by Anton Chekhov
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
short story by Edgar Allan Poe
Harrison Bergeron
short story by Kurt Vonnegut