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This is a compiled list of some of my favorite pieces of short horror fiction, ranging from classics to modern-day horror, and includes links to where the full story can be read for free. Please be aware that any of these stories may contain subject matter you find disturbing, offensive, or otherwise distressing. Exercise caution when reading. Image art is from Scarecrow: Year One.
PSYCHOLOGICAL: tense, dread-inducing horror that preys upon the human psyche and aims to frighten on a mental or emotional level.
“The Frolic” by Thomas Ligotti, 1989
“Button, Button” by Richard Matheson, 1970
“89.1 FM” by Jimmy Juliano, 2015
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892
“Death at 421 Stockholm Street“ by C.K. Walker, 2016
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973
“An Empty Prison” by Matt Dymerski, 2018
“A Suspicious Gift” by Algernon Blackwood, 1906
CURSED: stories concerning characters afflicted with a curse, either by procuring a plagued object or as punishment for their own nefarious actions.
“How Spoilers Bleed” by Clive Barker, 1991
“A Warning to the Curious” by M.R. James, 1925
“each thing i show you is a piece of my death” by Stephen J. Barringer and Gemma Files, 2010
“The Road Virus Heads North” by Stephen King, 1999
“Ring Once for Death” by Robert Arthur, 1954
“The Mary Hillenbrand Cassette“ by Jimmy Juliano, 2016
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, 1902
MONSTERS: tales of ghouls, creeps, and everything in between.
“The Curse of Yig” by H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, 1929
“The Oddkids” by S.M. Piper, 2015
“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” by Richard Matheson
“The Graveyard Rats” by Henry Kuttner, 1936
“Tall Man” by C.K. Walker, 2016
“The Quest for Blank Claveringi“ by Patricia Highsmith, 1967
“The Showers” by Dylan Sindelar, 2012
CLASSICS: terrifying fiction written by innovators of literary horror.
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, 1843
“The Interlopers” by Saki, 1919
“The Statement of Randolph Carter“ by H.P. Lovecraft, 1920
“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Pierce, 1893
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving, 1820
“August Heat” by W.F. Harvey, 1910
“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, 1843
SUPERNATURAL: stories varying from spooky to sober, featuring lurking specters, wandering souls, and those haunted by ghosts and grief.
“Nora’s Visitor” by Russell R. James, 2011
“The Pale Man” by Julius Long, 1934
“A Collapse of Horses” by Brian Evenson, 2013
“The Jigsaw Puzzle” by J.B. Stamper, 1977
“The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement and then Take Questions” by David Nickle, 2013
“The Night Wire” by H.F. Arnold, 1926
“Postcards from Natalie” by Carrie Laben, 2016
UNSETTLING: fiction that explores particularly disturbing topics, such as mutilation, violence, and body horror. Not recommended for readers who may be offended or upset by graphic content.
“Survivor Type” by Stephen King, 1982
“I’m On My Deathbed So I’m Coming Clean…” by M.J. Pack, 2018
“In the Hills, the Cities” by Clive Barker, 1984
“The New Fish” by T.W. Grim, 2013
“The Screwfly Solution” by Racoona Sheldon, 1977
“In the Darkness of the Fields” by Ho_Jun, 2015
“The October Game” by Ray Bradbury, 1948
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, 1967
HAPPY READING, HORROR FANS!
I’ve been doing some reading and have more stories to add:
PSYCHOLOGICAL:
“Paradise Pine” by C.K. Walker, 2016
“Suffer the Little Children” by Stephen King, 1972
“Rocking Horse Creek” by C.K. Walker, 2016
“The Ledge” by Stephen King, 1978
“Ted the Caver” by Ted, 2001
“The Fly-paper” by Elizabeth Taylor, 1969
CURSED:
“The Reaper’s Image” by Stephen King, 1969
“Correspondence” by Bloodstains, 2011
“Casting the Runes” by M.R. James, 1911
“The Dionaea House” by Eric Heisserer, 2004
“1408″ by Stephen King, 1999
“Stinson Beach” by Walter Smith, 2011
MONSTERS:
“The Crawlers” by Jimmy Juliano, 2014
“Pickman’s Model” by H.P. Lovecraft, 1927
“Dollhouse” by C.K. Walker, 2016
“I Love My Grandparents’ Fireplace” by Rona Vaselaar, 2016
“Click-clack the Rattlebag“ by Neil Gaiman, 2015
CLASSICS:
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” by M.R. James, 1904
“The Voice in the Night” by William Hope Hodgson, 1907
“The Cask of Amontillado“ by Edgar Allan Poe, 1847
“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, 1952
“Cool Air” by H.P. Lovecraft, 1928
SUPERNATURAL:
“It Was a Different Time” by Cymoril Melnibone, 2018
“The Testament of Magdalen Blair” by Aleister Crowley, 1929
“Instructions for the Babysitter” by CR Jones, 2018
“The Hand” by Guy de Maupassant, 1880
“63 Years Ago” by Jake Healey, 2016
UNSETTLING:
“Window” by Bob Leman, 1980
“No Matter Which Way We Turned” by Brian Evenson, 2016
“The M Show Fan Club” by lenalona, 2013
“The Dune” by Stephen King, 2011
“Jacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament“ by Clive Barker, 1984
“The Judge” by Rona Vaselaar, 2015
ENJOY!
Here’s some more stories I’ve enjoyed, bringing the list total to 125 scary tales:
PSYCHOLOGICAL:
“Nightcrawlers” by Robert R. Mccammon, 1984
“Burn” by C.K. Walker, 2016
“Examination Day” by Henry Slesar, 1958
“Miriam” by Truman Capote, 1945
“To See the Invisible Man” by Robert Silverberg, 1979
“A Conversation with a Stranger on the Bus” by C.M., 2019
“The Man Who Loved Flowers” by Stephen King, 1977
“Paleontologists Were We” by C.K. Walker, 2016
CURSED:
“The Hourglass Tattoo” by The Dead Canary, 2019
“I Uncovered the Disturbing Truth Behind a Haunted Film…” by Joel Farrelly, 2015
“Moomaw’s Curses” by Pippinacious, 2017
“A Curse is Killing My Friends and I’m Next” by Zamil Akhtar, 2017
“The Cat From Hell” by Stephen King, 1977
“I’ve Been Getting Strange Letters from the St. Louis Prison” by Andrew Harmon, 2015
“The Ash-tree” by M.R. James, 1904
MONSTERS:
“The Midnight Meat Train” by Clive Barker, 1984
“Recluse” by Jimmy Juliano, 2016
“The Raft” by Stephen King, 1982
“Mr. Widemouth” by perfectcircle35, 2010
“The Beast of Averoigne” by Clark Ashton Smith, 1932
“Graveyard Shift” by Stephen King, 1970
“The Puppet in the Tree” by Dopabeane, 2018
“The Autopsy” by Michael Shea, 1980
CLASSICS:
“The Triumph of Night” by Edith Wharton, 1914
“Specialty of the House” by Stanley Ellin, 1956
“The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe, 1842
“The Mezzotint” by M.R. James, 1904
“The Occupant of the Room” by Algernon Blackwood, 1917
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, 1966
“The Waxwork” by A.M. Burrage, 1931
“The Terrible Old Man” by H.P. Lovecraft, 1920
SUPERNATURAL:
“The Stillwood King” by Kris Straub, 2008
“She’s Gotten One Step Closer Every Night…” by Nick Botic, 2018
“Beauty” by Robert R. Mccammon, 1990
“My Girlfriend Talks in Her Sleep…” by Ryan Matthews, 2018
“The Everlasting Club” by Arthur Gray, 1910
“Char” by C.K. Walker, 2016
“The River Styx Runs Upstream” by Dan Simmons, 1981
“Lemon Blossom Girl” by Kris Straub, 2008
“How to Summon the Butter Street Hitchhiker” by Chris Hicks, 2018
UNSETTLING:
“Soft” by F. Paul Wilson, 1984
“The Taxidermied Child” by Tobias Wade, 2019
“It’s a Good Life” by Jerome Bixby, 1953
“Magnum Opus” by C.K. Walker, 2016
“Something Passed By” by Robert R. McCammon, 1990
“The Stretching Party” by Nick Botic, 2018
“Incident On and Off a Mountain Road” by Joe R. Lansdale, 1991
“Other People” by Neil Gaiman, 2001
HAVE FUN!
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i recently recovered my old hard drive from my dead laptop, including recovering my theatre bootlegs. one of which is something i've seen people asking about for the past couple of years (and had been trying to find again myself without luck): a BBC4 broadcast of the 2015 Barbican production of Anne Carson's translation of Antigone, directed by Ivo van Hove. it was broadcast twice and never released on DVD or permanent streaming. there used to be public links around, but all of them are dead as of right now that i could track down.
so i have uploaded it to archive.org now i have it again!
BBC4's recording and broadcast of the Barbican's 2015 production of Antigone, translated by Anne Carson, starring Juliette Binoche, and dire
i had to convert the mkv to mp4, for reasons of 'my broadband is shit and uploads too slowly', but it's still good quality. anyway, i enjoy this production a lot. i want more people to watch it! i'm glad i could get it back and upload it somewhere.
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monster theory reading list
this list is going to be some recommended reading when it relates to literary teratology or monster theory. some of these works predate 'monster theory' as a concept (which was coined in 1996 by jeffrey jerome cohen) but are foundational to that work regardless.
i'll try to include links to any readings that are freely available online and links to doi etc but if something isn't and you're really keen, hit me up and y'know we'll see what i can do.
monster theory: reading culture (1996) by jeffrey jerome cohen - the original and defining text on monster theory by the man himself. here is a link to a pdf of the first chapter, which i spoke about at length in another post.
the horror reader (2000) by ken gelder (editor) - an incredibly insightful collected edition about the horror genre as a whole, however gelder's introduction to part three, as well as marie-hélene huet's chapter introduction to monstrous imagination were incredibly helpful to my work personally. very generously, gelder has allowed free access to the entire work in pdf form!
the monster theory reader (2020) by jeffrey andrew weinstock - an amazing collected edition featuring cohen, creed, kristeva and a number of others that provides a really good foundational background knowledge of what contributed to the creation of monster theory as well as some fantastic takes on it post cohen.
classic readings on monster theory (2018) by asa simon mittman & marcus hensel - similar to weinstock, this collected edition features a number of classical foundational essays and some more modern ones surrounding monster theory. a very helpful starting point! here is a link to the introductory chapter by mittman and hensel in pdf form!
the monstrous feminine: film, feminism, psychoanalysis (1993) by barbara creed - creed's idea of the monstrous feminine is one of the foundational underpinnings of monster theory and is key in comprehending the 'other' as monstrous, particularly as it relates to women in a patriarchal society. highly recommend! here is the entire book in pdf form!
powers of horror: an essay on abjection (1982) by julia kristeva - kristeva's idea of abjection is a precursor to a lot of theoretical frameworks regarding the horror genre, in particular as a direct precursor to creed's work, then to cohen's work. here is the entire book in pdf form!
this is definitely not an all encompassing list of sources, but it is a good starting point for anyone interested in this particular niche field of literary theory. these are texts that were crucial for me in understanding the basics when i was starting work on my thesis.
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i’m not saying this in a mean way, but i really hope with all my heart that everyone posting about community & loving each other right now is wearing a mask in their daily life !! like that’s one of the most straightforward ways you can take care of the people around you, and keep each other safe!
i know it’s a hard adjustment if you’ve stopped masking for awhile because the government/media has been pushing their propaganda about how covid is mild/isn’t a threat anymore. it’s scary to accept that a comfort you thought existed was just a lie, but we need to care enough about each other to put in the work of unlearning that propaganda. (and if you’re not sure how to start doing that, feel free to reply to this or send me an ask or DM me for help!!)
we need to be brave enough to build community on actual safety measures and concrete support, not just vibes and empty statements about love and community.
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