Has your Halloween gone Hallowimp? Are you still all alone in the pumpkin patch? Excess candy made you sick to your stomach? Is your costume moth eaten and ragged? Did your party end before it ever got started?
Then it’s time for a Halloween Quick Pick-Me-Up with free online short story collections provided by those terrifying transcribers at Project Gutenberg. Check them out now and resuscitate that Halloween Spirit before it’s too late.
Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
Dracula’s Guest — The Judge’s House — The Squaw — The Secret of the Growing Gold — The Gipsy Prophecy — The Coming of Abel Behenna — The Burial of the Rats — A Dream of Red Hands — Crooken Sands.
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow, Part One on Ogg Vorbis Audio, MP3 and iTunes by Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow, Part Two on Ogg Vorbis Audio, MP3 and iTunes by Robert W. Chambers
The Repairer of Reputations — The Mask — In the Court of the Dragon — The Yellow Sign — The Demoiselle d’Ys — The Prophets’ Paradise — The Street of the Four Winds — The Street of the First Shell — The Street of Our Lady of the Fields — Rue Barree.
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood
The Empty House — A Haunted Island — A Case of Eavesdropping — Keeping his Promise — With Intent to Steal — The Wood of the Dead — Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House — A Suspicious Gift — The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York — Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp.
Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood
Case I: A Psychical Invasion — Case II: Ancient Sorceries — Case III: The Nemesis of Fire.
Three More John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood
Case I: Secret Worship — Case II: The Camp of the Dog — Case III: A Victim of Higher Space.
Famous Modern Ghost Stories compiled by Dorothy Scarborough
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood — The Shadows On The Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman — The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers — Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev — The Beast With Five Fingers by W. F. Harvey — The Mass Of Shadows by Anatole France — What Was It? by Fitz-James O’brien — The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce — The Shell Of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar — The Woman At Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel Steele — At The Gate by Myla Jo Closser — Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe — The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne — The Bowmen by Arthur Machen — A Ghost by Guy De Maupassant.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Ogg Vorbis Audio by M. R. James
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book — Lost Hearts — The Mezzotint — The Ash-Tree — Number 13 — Count Magnus — ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ — The Treasure of Abbot Thomas.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by M. R. James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories Ogg Vorbis Audio by M. R. James
A School Story — The Rose Garden — The Tractate Middoth — Casting the Runes — The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral — Martin’s Close — Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance.
J. S. Le Fanu’s Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Schalken the Painter — An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street. (vol. 2-5 also available)
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 MP3 Audio by Edgar Allan Poe
The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall — The Gold Bug — Four Beasts in One — The Murders in the Rue Morgue — The Mystery of Marie Roget — The Balloon Hoax — MS. Found in a Bottle — The Oval Portrait. (vol. 2-5 also available)
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others by John Kendrick Bangs
Ghosts That Have Haunted Me — The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa — The Mystery of Barney O’Rourke — The Exorcism That Failed — Thurlow’s Christmas Story — The Dampmere Mystery — Carleton Barker, First and Second.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce
Present at a Hanging — A Cold Greeting — A Wireless Message — An Arrest — A Man with Two Lives — Three and One are One — A Baffled Ambuscade — Two Military Executions — The Isle of Pines — A Fruitless Assignment — A Vine on a House — At Old Man Eckert’s — The Spook House — The Other Lodgers — The Thing at Nolan — The Difficulty of Crossing a Field — An Unfinished Race — Charles Ashmore’s Trail — Science to the Front.
Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce
The Death of Halpin Frayser — The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch — One Summer Night — The Moonlit Road — A Diagnosis of Death — Moxon’s Master — A Tough Tussle — One of Twins — The Haunted Valley — A Jug of Sirup — Staley Fleming’s Hallucination — A Resumed Identity — Hazen’s Brigade — A Baby Tramp — The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s” — A Story That Is Untrue — Beyond the Wall — A Psychological Shipwreck — The Middle Toe of the Right Foot — John Mortonson’s Funeral — The Realm of the Unreal — John Bartine’s Watch — A Story by a Physician — The Damned Thing — Haita the Shepherd — An Inhabitant of Carcosa — The Stranger.
Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance edited by Sir Richard Francis Burton
This translation contains eleven of the best tales surrounding the legend of a huge bat, vampire or evil spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. They are old and thoroughly Hindu legends composed in Sanskrit.
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