The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

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Name

Author

Description

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The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

A gothic tale of a decaying family, a decaying mansion, illness, obsession, and a terrible burial mistake.

66

What Was It?

Fitz-James O’Brien

A strange invisible creature is discovered in a boarding house, turning supernatural terror into a problem of observation, capture, and proof.

67

The Upper Berth

Francis Marion Crawford

A passenger aboard a ship investigates a cursed cabin where something horrifying appears from the sea.

68

The Death of Halpin Frayser

Ambrose Bierce

A nightmarish tale of murder, memory, and supernatural revenge, centered on a man lost between dream, guilt, and death.

69

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling

A colonial horror story in which a drunken insult to a sacred image brings a hideous curse.

70

The Captain of the ‘Pole-Star’

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

An Arctic ghost story about a doomed captain, an obsessed expedition, and something haunting the frozen wastes.

71

The Yellow Sign

Robert W. Chambers

An artist and his model become drawn into a decadent supernatural mystery involving a sinister symbol and the King in Yellow.

72

Xelucha

M. P. Shiel

A lush, strange, morbid tale of obsession, death, and uncanny beauty, written in Shiel’s dense decadent style.

73

The Red Room

H. G. Wells

A skeptical man spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers terror without needing a visible ghost.

74

The Shadows on the Wall

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A domestic ghost story where grief, suspicion, and a strange shadow reveal something dreadful within a family home.

75

The Harbor-Master

Robert W. Chambers

A weird tale of coastal mystery, pursuit, and monstrous transformation, mixing adventure with uncanny horror.

76

The White People, Pt 1

Arthur Machen

The opening of Machen’s occult horror story, framing forbidden knowledge, childhood innocence, and hidden pagan mysteries.

77

The White People, Pt 2

Arthur Machen

The central portion of the story, presenting a young girl’s secret diary of strange rites, hidden places, and uncanny encounters.

78

The White People, Pt 3

Arthur Machen

The conclusion of the tale, where the innocent-seeming account becomes something much darker and more spiritually dangerous.

79

Lost Hearts

M. R. James

A young orphan comes to live with an elderly relative and uncovers a cold, scholarly evil involving missing children.

80

The Willows, Pt 1

Algernon Blackwood

The beginning of a cosmic nature-horror story about two travelers canoeing down the Danube into a remote and hostile landscape.

81

The Willows, Pt 2

Algernon Blackwood

The travelers become increasingly aware that the landscape around them may be alive, watching, and spiritually alien.

82

The Willows, Pt 3

Algernon Blackwood

The pressure of the place grows unbearable as natural details become signs of a vast, inhuman presence.

83

The Willows, Pt 4

Algernon Blackwood

The conclusion reveals the full terror of the willows: not a simple haunting, but contact with forces beyond human scale.

84

The Hashish Man/The Unhappy Body

Lord Dunsany

Two short Dunsany pieces: one dreamlike and visionary, the other a strange fable about the body, identity, and dissatisfaction.

85

Fishhead

Irvin S. Cobb

A grotesque backwoods horror story about an outcast man with fishlike features and a reputation for uncanny violence.

86

The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil

Clark Ashton Smith

A visionary prose-poem of cosmic horror, decadent imagery, and apocalyptic evil unfolding through drug-induced revelation.

87

Seaton’s Aunt, Pt 1

Walter de la Mare

The first half of a quiet psychological ghost story about a boy’s unsettling visit to his friend’s house and his terrifying aunt.

88

Seaton’s Aunt, Pt 2

Walter de la Mare

The second half deepens the dread around Seaton’s aunt, leaving the horror ambiguous, oppressive, and emotionally cruel.