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Horror
Darby O'Gill and the Good People/The Banshee's Comb/Chapter 3
By Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
The countryside was haunted by ghosts, and the villagers were terrified as they encountered strange and terrifying apparitions.

Horror
Norman's Visit to Guestford
By None
A man visits the town of Guestford, where he encounters a mysterious and sinister presence.

Horror
Noughts and Crosses/A Dark Mirror
By Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The story revolves around a mysterious mirror that reflects images with a dark and eerie tone, revealing a bleak stone parsonage and a family of four children disputing over a box of wooden soldiers.

Horror
Russian Folk-Tales/The Feast of the Dead
By Leonard Arthur MagnusAlexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev
A group of girls invite bones to a party, but the bones turn out to be sinister and violent.

Horror
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 3/One Summer Night
By Ambrose Bierce
Henry Armstrong, a hard man to convince, finds himself buried alive in a cemetery on a dark summer night.

Horror
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 3/The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
By Ambrose Bierce
The story revolves around the Manton house, which is believed to be haunted due to a gruesome murder that took place there ten years ago.

Horror
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 3/The Realm of the Unreal
By Ambrose Bierce
A man appears unexpectedly on a dark and stormy night, causing the narrator to feel a sense of unease and spiritual peril.

Horror
Black Canaan
By Robert E. Howard
A warning to send cold fear along the spine of any man who was raised in that isolated back-country, called Canaan, that lies between Tularoosa and Black River.

Horror
The Haunted Jarvee
By William Hope Hodgson
Carnacki recounts his story of a voyage on the old sailing ship Jarvee, where he experiences strange occurrences and hears tales of the ship's eerie reputation.

Horror
The Dunwich Horror
By H. P. Lovecraft
A tale of hereditary horror and cosmic dread in isolated Dunwich, where a monstrous entity is unleashed upon the world.

Horror
The Call of Cthulhu
By H. P. Lovecraft
A university professor's investigation into a mysterious cult and a grotesque statuette uncovers terrifying secrets about ancient cosmic entities and the perilous fragility of human sanity.

Horror
The Colour Out of Space
By H. P. Lovecraft
A surveyor learns of a rural New England farmstead's horrific transformation after an alien entity arrives via meteorite, poisoning the land and its inhabitants.

Horror
Visible and Invisible
By E. F. Benson
A collection of short stories of the supernatural that aim to raise the reader's hair.

Horror
Category:Horror short stories
By H.P. Lovecraft
The story revolves around a group of men who uncover an ancient tome in a long-abandoned church, unleashing a malevolent deity that threatens to destroy the world.

Horror
The Curse (Smith)
By Henry Lee Smith
A mysterious curse is said to haunt the old mansion, and it's up to the protagonist to uncover the truth behind it.

Horror
Fear (Abdullah)
By Abdullah
Stuart McGregor is haunted by a traumatic event from his past, a scene in the African jungle where his friend Farragut Hutchison disappeared.

Horror
The Gold Mill
By Raymond S. Spears
The crowd that came to Peter Maskin's funeral was large—not to increase the mourning, but to see with their own eyes that Old Pete had not been too mean to die, as some had said.

Horror
Pall Mall/The Ghosts
By George A. Birmingham
The story revolves around the death of a tramp in the churchyard and the superstition that follows, with the possibility of a ghost.

Horror
The Ghost of Mohammed Din
By Clark Ashton Smith
I'll wager a hundred rupees that you won't stay there over-night," said Nicholson.

Horror
In the Dark (Nesbit, Strand magazine 1908)
By E. Nesbit
He told me the first part of the story, and the last part of it I saw with my own eyes.

Horror
Madam Crowl's Ghost
By W.W. Jacobs
A young girl, traveling to Applewale House to live with her aunt, is frightened by two men on the carriage who warn her that her aunt is possessed by the devil and is more than half a ghost.

Horror
The Last Galley (collection)/The Terror of Blue John Gap
By Arthur Conan Doyle
The story follows the account of Dr. James Hardcastle, who recounts his experiences at a remote farm in North-West Derbyshire, where he encounters a mysterious and terrifying event.

Horror
The Portent of the Shadow
By E. Nesbit
The story follows three friends who, along with another, are staying at a country house for a Christmas dance, where they discuss ghosts and then experience a mysterious and suspenseful encounter.

Horror
The Black Stone Statue
By Arthur Machen
The narrator, a man of letters, is drawn into a mysterious and supernatural world when he visits a friend in the countryside.