If werewolves exist, they don’t necessarily conform to all the superstitions people have.They may even know fear…. Odd, how it had all started. Being suddenly marooned on this planet, forced to survive, somehow, through the long years while waiting for rescue. How many years had it been, now? Some five hundred thousand, in the subjective … More eBook Infiltration by Algis Budrys
“The Striding Place” is a short story by American writer Gertrude Atherton. The story was first published in 1896 under the title “The Twins”. After improving the story, Atherton renamed the story and republished it in The Bell in the Fog in 1905. It had been a bad day. A heavy rain had made the … More eBook The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton
An unusual tale of a terrifying monster.There was a cry of amazement. Alex called for a light. Someone else, evidently startled by the voice coming from what all had thought to be a dead man, started to run, kicked over a lantern, and was cursed roundly by the others, who were crowding up. Howard Ellis … More eBook: The Unknown Beast by Howard Ellis Davis
“Does he jest, or has he forgotten the evidence? The term ‘corpus delicti’ is technical, and means the body of the crime, or the substantial fact that a crime has been committed. Does anyone doubt it in this case?” All wrongs are not crimes. Indeed only those wrongs are crimes in which certain technical elements … More eBook: The Corpus Delicti by Melville D. Post
“And how do I know these things? Because it was I who killed her!” Merlin Moore Taylor was born on October 5, 1886, in Batesville, Arkansas. His father, Reverend James Jackson Taylor (1855-1924), was a missionary and a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. Reverend Taylor went back and forth between the United States and … More eBook: The Place of Madness by Merlin Moore Taylor
“Oh, for Heaven’s sake, burn it, and renounce the giver!” cried she. “If you have any regard for your peace here or your soul’s welfare hereafter, burn that ring! If you saw with your own eyes, you would easily perceive that that is not a ring befitting a Christian to wear.” James Hogg was a … More eBook: The Mysterious Bride by James Hogg
To every man there is his one fear. The bravest man that ever trod the earth had his one especial dread. To some, it is fire; to others, cold steel; others still, the clash of physical contact. But, probe deep enough beneath the skin of any man alive, and you find it. Horror story – … More eBook: Fear by David R. Solomon
Then a tall man of sunburned face and grave demeanor, one of those men who have evidently traveled unknown and far-away lands, whose calm eye seems to preserve in its depths something of the foreign scenes it has observed, a man that you are sure is impregnated with courage, spoke for the first time. Henri … More eBook: Fear by Guy de Maupassant
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