Horror stories (12 pages found in this category)


Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1895, about a demon depicted in a picture coming to life.

Casting the Runes

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1911, about the revenge of an author on the reviewer who rejects his paper on alchemy.

Count Magnus

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about the death of a travelogue writer who inadvertently releases two demons from the sarcophagus of Count Magnus.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Collection of eight short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1904.

Lost Hearts

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1895, about a man who believes that he can obtain magical powers by consuming the hearts of three people under the age of twenty-one.

More Ghost Stories

Collection of seven short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1911.

Number 13 (short story)

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about a hotel room that only exists during the hours of darkness.

Pollock and the Porroh Man

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a murdered witch-doctor whose severed head haunts the man responsible for his death.

The Black Cat

Short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the 19 August 1843 edition of The Saturday Evening Post, a study of the psychology of guilt.

The Mezzotint

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about an engraving that changes every time it is looked at.