A romantic cottage in the English countryside, the perfect setting for something that is let loose on Halloween night.
"Man-Size in Marble" is a Gothic horror short story by English author Edith Nesbit. The story is narrated in the first person by a newlywed husband who, along with his wife Laura, moves into a cottage built on the ruins of an old house. The cottage is located near the village of Brenzett, two miles from the sea. The couple, who are deeply in love and content with their simple, domestic life, hire a local housekeeper, Mrs. Dorman, who warns them of a local legend: on All Saints' Eve, the life-sized marble effigies of two cruel Norman knights in a nearby church are said to rise from their tombs and walk back to their former home.
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A broken heart, an obsession, yearning for someone who is gone, waiting for their return, but sometimes your prayers are not answered as you expect.
"Passeur" is a short story by American writer Robert W. Chambers which is rich with gothic imagery. The story is set in the French region of Brittany and is known for its eerie, dreamlike atmosphere and themes of grief and the supernatural. It follows an old man living in isolation in a remote hamlet, haunted by the memory of his lost love, Jeanne, who died a year prior on a snowy night when the river was frozen. He is tormented by the sounds of the wind, the creaking of the house, and the haunting, recurring cry of "Passeur!"—the French word for "ferryman"—which he believes is her voice calling across the river. 
You've heard of close encounters of the 4th kind, just consider that always doesn't have to happen out on a lonely road in the middle of nowhere.
"Game for Motel Room" is a science fiction short story written by Fritz Leiber Jr The story centers on an itinerant man who is brought in for an unspecified job, leading to a night on the town with a very tall and strange woman who may be from another galaxy. The narrative explores blending elements of film noir with science fiction. 
If you ever have an antiquities dealers offer you an ancient manuscript written on something that really isn't paper, say thanks, but no thanks!
The story "A Bride for the Devil" is a short story written by Stuart Palmer. It is part of his collection of mystery stories, which often feature his popular character Hildegarde Withers, an amateur crime solver and occult detective. 
Revenge, love, hate and guilt, the cornerstones of a doomed affair between two lovers.
"The Last Kiss," originally titled Le Baiser dans la nuit, is a short story by French author Maurice Level, first published in 1912. It is a cornerstone of the Grand Guignol theatrical tradition, known for its intense psychological drama and shocking twist ending. The story centers on a man who has been blinded and disfigured by acid thrown at him by his former lover, Jeanne, after she was acquitted of the crime due to his refusal to testify against her. The narrative unfolds as he invites her to his home for a final meeting, where he requests a final kiss, leading to a brutal act of revenge in which he scours her face with acid. The story's plot is rooted in real-world incidents of vitriol attacks, which were a significant social concern in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often committed by abandoned lovers, particularly women, using acid as a weapon. The story's title carries a dual meaning, as "baiser" can mean both "kiss" and "fuck," adding a layer of sexual menace to the narrative. 
Some family curses are more deadly than others, especially if the curse is vampirism.
Authored by Claude and Alice Askew, the story centers on Aylmer Vance, Ghost Seer, an investigator of the supernatural. Mr. Dexter, the narrator, meets Vance during a fishing holiday and Vance tells him three ghost stories on successive nights, each story involving Vance more closely in the action. The fourth story brings Dexter himself into the action, and reveals him to have unsuspected clairvoyant powers. 
An abandoned ruin on the edge of an Alabama swamp has been named the Dead House, it is a place where no one goes, whether by night or day.
"Ooze," a short story by American author Anthony M. Rud, first published in the debut issue of Weird Tales in March 1923. The story centers on John Corliss Cranmer, a wealthy scientist in the Alabama backwoods who discovers a method to grow amoebas to enormous sizes. When a specimen grows to the size of a cow's liver, he instructs his son, Lee, to destroy it. However, Lee, seeking to increase his father's fame, feeds the creature meat instead, leading to its uncontrollable growth. The creature eventually devours Lee and his wife, Peggy, driving Cranmer Sr. to burn it to death, though he is left insane with grief. 
Unexplained deaths prompt the paranormal detective, Dr. Jules de Grandin to find out the real, supernatural reason for their demise.
"The Curse of Everard Maundy" is a short story by Seabury Quinn that was originally published in Weird Tales in July 1927. The story features the occult investigator Jules de Grandin, who becomes involved in a series of suicides and attempted suicides in the city. De Grandin investigates the case and discovers that the victims had all attended the evangelical revival meetings of Reverend Everard Maundy. Maundy, a former skeptic, had insulted an elderly black medium during a séeance, which led to a curse being placed upon him. He believes the curse is responsible for the deaths, as his wife committed suicide the very next night after the incident. De Grandin ultimately determines that the curse manifested as an elemental spirit, one of the evil children of Lilith, which attached itself to Maundy after the séance. To defeat the spirit, de Grandin uses a pellet blessed by a priest, which causes the spirit to manifest as a grotesque, withered entity before being trapped within a corpse that de Grandin destroys by decapitation and staking. 
Traffic with the dead brings only one result for the living, horror unbound.
Seabury Quinn's short story "The Last Man" was first published in Weird Tales magazine. The story features the occult detective Jules de Grandin, a character created by Quinn and one of the most popular figures in the magazine's history. The narrative centers on a man named Mycroft who seeks out the enigmatic Monsieur Toussaint, a mysterious figure capable of raising the spirits of the dead, in a desperate attempt to communicate with the twenty-five comrades who died during the Spanish-American War. 
When you rule out the impossible you're left with the truth, even if you think it's unimaginable.
"Birthmark" is a short story by Seabury Quinn, first published in 1941. It explores themes of perception and psychological unease, with its opening line questioning whether a lingering visual impression in the dark is merely a trick of tired nerves. The story is part of Quinn's broader body of work, which includes over five hundred short stories, many of which were published in pulp magazines like Weird Tales. 
Superstition is the word used by the inexperienced to explain witchcraft and hexes.
"Glamour" is a short story by Seabury Quinn, originally published in Weird Tales magazine in December 1939. Modern critics, have described Quinn's Jules De Grandin tales, like "Glamour," as some of his best work, noting them as "ironically perverted love stories". 
In a secret ceremony, dark vows are taken, but neither distance nor time can help when Satan comes a callin'.
"Incense of Abomination" is a short story by American pulp fiction writer Seabury Quinn, originally published in the March 1938 issue of Weird Tales. It is a tale within the Jules de Grandin series, featuring the French occult detective who investigates a series of seemingly suicidal deaths linked by a mysterious, distinctive perfume. The story involves devil-worship, the Black Mass, and the salvation of a man who had sinned greatly but was truly repentant. The narrative centers on Detective Sergeant Costello, who is baffled by the cases of three men found dead in locked rooms, each exhibiting the same strange scent, which leads de Grandin to suspect a supernatural or occult cause involving a drug-laced incense. 
A trapped soul knows no mercy when it is trying to achieve redemption at any cost. A tale of a lover who was pledged to a sweetheart who had been in her grave for more than a century, and of the striking death that menaced him.
Authored by Seabury Quinn (1889-1969) American lawyer specializing in mortuary jurisprudence, who is best known as a popular pulp author for Weird Tales. He published over a 100 stories, where he introduced the character of occult detective Jules de Grandin, and his assistant Dr. Trowbridge. 
So you discover you have an evil ancestor, tainted blood is the last thing you have to worry about.
"The Necromantic Tale" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in 1931. The narrative follows Sir Roderick Hagdon, an Australian-born man who unexpectedly inherits a baronetcy and ancestral estate in England after the deaths of his father, his uncle Sir John Hagdon, and Sir John's son within a single year. Upon arriving at the Hagdon manor, Hagdon experiences an uncanny sense of familiarity with the estate and its surroundings, despite never having visited England before. This feeling intensifies as he explores the property and delves into the family archives, particularly focusing on a mysterious gap in the records concerning his namesake, Sir Roderick Hagdon, who lived in the early Seventeenth Century. The records provide only the bare dates of birth and death for this ancestor and make no mention of his wife, and there is no portrait of him or his wife in the family gallery. Driven by a growing sense of unease and curiosity, Hagdon eventually discovers a hidden panel behind a bookshelf in the library, leading to a secret room containing a necromantic tome that details the dark history of his ancestor. 
Some spirits refuse to be dead and return to the land of the living in any way they can.
"The Beast with Five Fingers" is a novelette by English author William Fryer Harvey, first published in 1919. The story centers on a man who inherits a library and a mummified hand from a deceased relative, which subsequently comes to life and torments him. 
The saying goes that there's no honor among thieves, but there sure is revenge.
"Attorney of The Damned" by Renier Wyers - A shady criminal lawyer takes on a notorious bank robber as a client. But when the robber divulges the secret location of his fortune, he decides to murder him, get the reward, and steal his fortune. When he shows up to get it after the press goes home, he encounters the murdered mobster's ghost advancing on him. He fires his guns until they are empty, and is found clicking the triggers at the dead body of the shop's owner, another stooge of the mobster. He ends up in an insane asylum, haunted for the rest of his days. This story unfolds like classic film noir. "Across The Moors" by William Fryer Harvey - A governess sends her servant to get a doctor. On the way she encounters a priest who accompanies her, but who vanishes after he tells her the story of his death at the hands of a highway robber. 
A hypochondriac with an overactive imagination, too busy with his thoughts to notice that a disease is the least of his worries.
Ray Bradbury's short story tells the unsettling tale of Bert Harris, a hypochondriac who becomes obsessed with the idea that his skeleton is an independent, malevolent entity plotting against him. His fixation intensifies after consulting a mysterious doctor, M. Munigant, who diagnoses a psychological imbalance between soul, flesh, and skeleton. Harris believes his bones are responsible for his physical pains, professional failures, and marital strife, leading him to seek the drastic intervention of Munigant's "cure". 
A vampire's deadliest characteristic is not its thirst for blood, but how adept it is in appearing to be normal with empathy for other fellow human beings.
"The village of Maxley, where last summer and autumn, these strange events took place, lies on a heathery and pine-clad upland of Sussex. In all England you could not find a sweeter and saner situation. Should the wind blow from the south, it comes laden with the spices of the sea; to the east high downs protect it from the inclemency of March; and from the west and north the breezes which reach it travel over miles of aromatic forest and heather." Author - E.F. Benson 
One usually thinks that a werewolf is cursed, but what if instead he is the curse?
"The Kill" is a classic horror short story written by Peter Fleming in 1931.The story is set in a small, foggy railway station in the West of England, where a young man recounts a chilling tale to a mysterious stranger about a curse involving a werewolf, which he claims is tied to his uncle, Lord Fleer. The narrative centers on the discovery of two sheep killed in a manner unlike any known dog attack, with their throats torn out, suggesting a more powerful and cunning predator. Peter Fleming, the author, was a British writer and the elder brother of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. He was also known for his wartime activities, leading the Resistance Army of Kent and Sussex during World War II, a group dedicated to killing as many Nazis as possible. 
Can a soul so evil in life, continue to wreak havoc and claim victims after death?
A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds the place infested with rats, but it suits his purposes... until one of the rats grows too bold, and the scholar realizes the horror he's stumbled into. Author - Bram Stoker 
The ways of nature is sometimes a mystery, but never as dangerous as when it turns against mankind.
This is a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, set in her home county of Cornwall shortly after the end of the WWII. A farmhand, his family and community come under lethal attack from flocks of birds. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name, released in 1963. 
There is something that creeps out on dark, moonless nights and goes out to feed, lucky are those that never cross its path.
The story comprises the adventures of a British doctor, recovering from tuberculosis, who goes to stay at a Derbyshire farm looking for rest and relaxation, becomes entrapped in a series of sinister events, and is forced to uncover the mysteries surrounding "Blue John Gap" and the "Terror" that lurks within it. Authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in the Strand Magazine in 1910. 
A disturbed boy comes face to face with something that is more of a psychopath than he is. | Author: John B.L. Goodwin
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