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"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. About The Author :- Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is...

From the author of LINEAGE, SINGULARITY, and EVERFALL comes this short story of supernatural horror.A man, walked on his entire life by others, learns of his wife's infidelity, and decides to do something about it. After a deadly confrontation in an alley, he must search the depths of...

My best friend was in Pompeii. And like everybody else on that fateful day she never left, leaving me orbiting helplessly within horror, reincarnation and the persistence of memory. As seen on creepypasta.com in 2014, this mournful little horror is the most obscure of a suite of short science...

"Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of his concepts are so original that they blur the distinction between fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror, but the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - Penguin...

No one knew his name. People in these parts simply called him 'Dr. Satanos'. He had the look of a kindly uncle. He was dressed in a white lab coat ... splattered with specks of blood ... A mysterious scientist is working on a groundbreaking medical procedure - with deadly consequences. When an elderly...

**“A lost classic . . . the history of a horror-film star and a treatise on human frailty . . . is back to be savored and marveled at anew” (James Ellroy, New York Times–bestselling author of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy). Simon Moro, a sixty-eight-year-old star, is making his last picture,...

This Richard Marsh Collection includes his greatest horrors, supernatural thrillers and crime mysteries, as well as humorous and adventure tales: Novels: The Beetle Tom Ossington's Ghost Crime and the Criminal The Datchet Diamonds The Chase of the Ruby The Twickenham Peerage Miss Arnott's Marriage...

Author Jayme Alan Toomey Releases Another Disturbing Novel New harrowing tale that obscures faith and reason grips horror fiction aficionados VENTURA, Calif. Jayme Alan Toomey, author of the grand slam horror fiction stories Paging Dr. Kevorkian, Breakin Heads, and Written in Stupid,...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling’s works of fiction include "The Jungle Book" (1894), "Kim" (1901), and many short stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888). He was one of the most popular writers...

Welcome to the hard streets. This is one of the nastiest novellas that I have ever written. There are three nasty stories as well. ALL of them are guaranteed to seriously creep you out. This is hardcore chill. LEFTOVERS - What's left of a man when everything worth losing has already...

Welcome to Dagon Heights, New Jersey! Home of Sun! Sand! Saltwater taffy! And nameless horrors from the deep! The author of the acclaimed comic horror novel The Mall of Cthulhu (Night Shade Books, 2009) is back with a loving homage to EC Comics-style horror and the joys of the Jersey Shore in the four...

Less did the Maxwells' know that a simple weekend would turn so disastrous for them, and would end up giving the narrator an idea for his next unfunny story. Sounds strange? It surely is, just as the story proceeds. Go through a short history of how Maxwells' climbed the leadersof success. then how...

The Statement Of Randolph Carter by H. P. Lovecraft "The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920.It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult...

Crimes of Passion ninth in the multiple award-winning Hot Blood series of erotic horror has a criminally good array of talent -- 14 stories by such authors as diverse as literary giant Joyce Carol Oates mystery giant Lawrence Block horror giant Ramsey Campbell musician Greg Kihn and the stunning Stoker...