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Darby O'Gill and the Good People/The Banshee's Comb/Chapter 3

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.

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Norman's Visit to Guestford

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Norman's Visit to Guestford

By None

A man visits the town of Guestford, where he encounters a mysterious and sinister presence.

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Noughts and Crosses/A Dark Mirror

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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.

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Russian Folk-Tales/The Feast of the Dead

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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.

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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 3/One Summer Night

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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.

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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 3/The Middle Toe of the Right Foot

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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.

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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 3/The Realm of the Unreal

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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.

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Black Canaan

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.

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The Haunted Jarvee

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.

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The Dunwich Horror

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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.

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The Call of Cthulhu

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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.

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The Colour Out of Space

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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.

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Visible and Invisible

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Visible and Invisible

By E. F. Benson

A collection of short stories of the supernatural that aim to raise the reader's hair.

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Category:Horror short stories

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.

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The Curse (Smith)

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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.

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Fear (Abdullah)

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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.

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The Gold Mill

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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.

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Pall Mall/The Ghosts

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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.

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The Ghost of Mohammed Din

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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.

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In the Dark (Nesbit, Strand magazine 1908)

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.

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Madam Crowl's Ghost

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.

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The Last Galley (collection)/The Terror of Blue John Gap

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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.

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The Portent of the Shadow

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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.

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The Black Stone Statue

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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.

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