The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. [su_divider] The Tell-Tale Heart TRUE!-NERVOUS--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them. Above all was the sense of...
A School Story by M.R. James [su_divider] Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. ‘At our school,’ said A., ‘we had a ghost’s footmark on the staircase. What was it like? Oh, very unconvincing. Just the shape of a shoe, with a square...
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. [su_divider] The Masque of the Red Death The red death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal--the madness and...
Someone has died is a horror story where the narrator describes her own death. Caution: This story contains several depictions and descriptions of death. [su_divider] Someone has died. Of this, I am certain. I know it because I always know it. As I lie here alone in this...