- home - all stories     list by rating     list by author     list by date added     list by length - all collections     list by rating     list by author     list by date added     list by length - contemporary stories - classic stories - new titles - authors A-Z subgenres: - ghost stories - vampire | | | | | Page    1  2  3  4  |  Next   3-4 A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce A man explains to his doctor how he came to believe in ghosts. - Date Added: March 2000 - Length: 3 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe Seeking shelter for the night, a wounded man breaks into a bizarre, abandoned chateau decorated by an unusually large number of paintings. - Date Added: August 1999 - Length: 3 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe As a hideous pestilence sweeps his lands, Prince Prospero seals himself in his castle and prepares a fabulous party. - Date Added: July 1999 - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Hobnail by Crystal Arbogast Scary bedtime story about a mother and daughter's night-time journey home. - Date Added: March 2001 - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later   5-9 The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe So you think he's mad? Nervous? True! - but you should see how wisely he carries out his plan. - Date Added: May 1999 - Length: 5 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Return by Fernando Sorrentino A man is the only witness to an accidental killing and the bizarre series of events that follow. - Date Added: February 2001 - Length: 5 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar. - Date Added: May 1999 - Length: 7 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Night Doings At 'Deadman's' by Ambrose Bierce Holed up in an isolated mountain shanty, the emaciated Mr. Hiram Beeson receives a visit from a dark stranger. - Date Added: December 2001 - Length: 7 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce A man's mother is brutally murdered but, except for the finger marks around her neck, no trace of the killer can be found. - Date Added: October 2001 - Length: 9 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe An apparently gentle man becomes increasingly less so as he sinks deeper into an obsession with a mysterious black cat. - Date Added: January 2000 - Length: 9 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs An unsually wet ghost soaks the master of Harrowby Hall every Christmas eve. - Date Added: October 2002 - Length: 9 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state. - Date Added: February 2000 - Length: 9 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later   10-14 The Haunted Valley by Ambrose Bierce A man uncovers the dark secret of a mysterious valley owned by a xenophobic drunkard. - Date Added: December 2001 - Length: 10 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker Intended as a short companion for Stoker's 'Dracula' we join the narrator as he begins a coach trip on the mysterious 'Walpurgis' night. - Date Added: March 2001 - Length: 11 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Japanned Box by Arthur Conan Doyle While in the service of a widower with a dark past, a young tutor begins to wonder about his master's regular visits to a room nobody else is allowed to enter. - Date Added: February 2000 - Length: 11 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens A frightened railway signal-man is plagued by premonitions of distasters. - Date Added: September 2001 - Length: 12 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later The Brass Teapot by Tim Macy When Alice and John buy an antique teapot they get more than they bargained for. - Date Added: October 2006 - Length: 12 pages - Age Rating: 15   - view comments   - mark for later The One That Got Away by Denny Johnson A journalist tracks down the man who escaped being the twelfth victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Contains adult material. - Date Added: January 2001 - Length: 14 pages - Age Rating: 18   - view comments   - mark for later The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe A first person account of a man's torture at the hands of The Spanish Inquisition. - Date Added: May 1999 - Length: 14 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later   15-19 Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson Markeim arrives at an antique dealer's on Christmas day, ostensibly to buy a present for a lady. A tale of evil and its nature. - Date Added: July 2000 - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: PG   - view comments   - mark for later Page    1  2  3  4  |  Next

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