Index by Authors for Tales
To access a short story listed here on this page, click on the underlined story title. Over 250 short stories here and over 150 contemporary and classic authors to explore! Many with free audios too.
Aiken, Conrad Silent Snow, Secret Snow, August 12, 2014
Alcott, Louisa May Blood & Thunder Tales June 22, 2015
Anonymous Horror : A True Tale (J.B. Harwood), March 25, 2014
Atherton, Gertrude Death and the Woman, February 25, 2014 WIHM*
Atwood, Margaret The Stone Mattress, August 22, 2017
Austen, Jane Northanger Abbey, July 18, 2017
Baba Yaga, fairy tale, January 14, 2020
Balzac, Honore de The Mysterious Mansion, December 3, 2013
Bangs, John Kendrick The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall, December 24, 2012
Bangs, John Kendrick Thurlow’s Christmas Story, December 4, 2018
Beattie, Ann Snow, September 13, 2021
Bensen, E.F. The Room in the Tower, January 21, 2014
Bensen, E.F. Between the Lights, December 15, 2015
Bierce, Ambrose The Damned Thing, May 6, 2013
Bierce, Ambrose The Realm of the Unreal, March 4, 2014
Bierce, Ambrose One Summer Night, July 21, 2015
Bierce, Ambrose An Inhabitant of Carcosa, August 11, 2015 (scroll down)
Bierce, Ambrose The Diagnosis of Death, October 10, 2017
Bierce, Ambrose Occurrence at Owl Creek, August 7, 2018
Blackwood, Algernon Ancient Sorceries, February 5, 2013
Blackwood, Algernon Wood of the Dead, September 9, 2014
Blackwood, Algernon House of the Past, November 9, 2015
Blackwood, Algernon The Glamour of Snow, March 1, 2016
Blackwood, Algernon A Psychological Invasion, Case 1, June 28, 2016
Blackwood, Algernon The Willows, October 16, 2018
Blackwood, Algernon The Empty House, October 21, 2021
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna The Ensouled Violin, October 8, 2013
Bloch, Robert Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper, March 12, 2013
Bloch, Robert Enoch, June 16, 2015
Borges, Jorge Luis The Circular Ruins, June 28, 2021
Bowen, Elizabeth Women In Horror Month various stories, Feb. 13 2018
Bowen, Elizabeth The Demon Lover, February 18, 2014
Bradbury, Ray The Last Night of the World, August 23, 2016
Bradbury, Ray The Veldt, May 22, 2018
Bradbury, Ray The Halloween Tree, Sept. 29, 2020
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Eveline’s Visitant, February 12, 2013 WIHM*
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Shadow in the Corner, October 29, 2013
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth The Cold Embrace, October 29, 2013
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Good Lady Ducayne, February 9, 2015 WIHM*
Braddon, Mary Elizababeth Chrighton Abbey, Feb. 9, 2015
Bronte, Charlotte Napoleon & the Spectre, April 30, 2019
Brussof, Valery In the Mirror, March 19, 2013
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward The Haunters and the Haunted, April 30, 2013
Burrage, A.M. Smee, January 12, 2015
Calvino, Italo Daughters of the Moon, June 25, 2019
Capote, Truman Miriam, December 29, 2015
Cappa, Paula Christmas River Ghost, December 7, 2017
Cappa, Paula Between the Darkness and the Dawn, July 16, 2019
Cappa, Paula Jasper Peacock, September 3, 2019
Cappa, Paula Jasper Peacock Ebook (Kindle), January 10, 2022
Cappa, Paula Abasteron House Mystery, May 29, 2018
Carter, Angela Lady of the House of Love, October 22, 2019
Carter, Angela TheWerewolf, August 11, 2020
Carver, Raymond The Witch, March 3, 2015 (contemporary author)
Carver, Raymond Errand, March 3 2015 (scroll down)
Chambers, Robert The Messenger, Feb. 28, 2018
Chambers, Robert In the Court of the Dragon, April 25, 2017
Chambers, Robert The Yellow Sign, August 11, 2015
Chambers, Robert The King in Yellow, August 11, 2015
Chandler, Raymond I’ll Be Waiting, May 19, 2020
Chekhov, Anton A Dead Body, June 4, 2013
Chekhov, Anton The Witch, March 3, 2015
Chekhov, Anton The Black Monk, June 6, 2016
Child, Lee A Guy Walks into a Bar, July 26, 2022
Chopin, Kate Her Letters, July 14, 2020
Christie, Agatha Philomel Cottage, June 20, 2017
Christie, Agatha The Idol House of Astarte, Sept. 1, 2015
Churchill, Winston Sir Man Overboard, January 6, 2015
Collins, Wilkie The Dream-Woman, April 29, 2014
Crawford, Francis Marion The Screaming Skull, May 14, 2013
Crawford, Francis Marion The Dead Smile, March 15, 2016
De Maupassant, Guy Was It a Dream? April 9, 2013
De Maupassant, Guy On the River, January 14, 2014
De Maupassant, Guy The Horla, August 25, 2015
Du Maurier, Daphne The Birds, October 7, 2014
Derleth, August W. & Schorer, Mark The Return of Andrew Bentley, June 18, 2013
De la Mare, Walter All Hallows, October 30, 2022
Dickens, Charles A Trial for Murder, February 11, 2020
Dickens, Charles Captain Murderer, December 11, 2012
Dickens, Charles To Be Read At Dusk, April 8, 2014
Dickens, Charles The Haunted House, November 21, 2017
Doyle, Arthur Conan The Silver Hatchet, January 8, 2013
Doyle, Arthur Conan The Leather Funnel, April 1, 2013
Doyle, Arthur Conan John Barrington Cowles, May 22, 2013
Doyle, Arthur Conan The Brown Hand, May 20, 2014
Doyle, Arthur Conan Man With the Twisted Lip, Sept. 22, 2015
Doyle, Arthur Conan Horror of the Heights, January 5, 2016
Doyle, Arthur Conan The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, September 20, 2016
Doyle, Arthur Conan Ghosts of Goresthrope Grange, May 1, 2018
Doyle, Arthur Conan Adventures of Sussex Vampire, January 15, 2019
Dumas, Alexandre Solange: Dr. Ledru’s Story of the Reign of Terror, July 23, 2013
Dunbar, Olivia Howard The Shell of Sense, April 26, 2016
Edwards, Amelia B The Phantom Coach, January 29, 2013
Eiseley, Loren Barbed Wire & Brown Skulls, August 29, 2017
Eliot, George The Lifted Veil February 24, 2015 WIHM*
Erckmann-Chatrian The Invisible Eye, March 18, 2014
Evenson, Brian Windeye (contemporary author), January 1, 2014
Fitzgerald, F. Scott A Short Ride Home, April 21, 2015
Freeman, Mary Wilkins The Little Maid at the Door, October 22, 2013
Freeman, Mary Wilkins The Shadow on the Wall, October 22, 2012
Freeman, Mary Wilkins The Lost Ghost July 28, 2015
Faulkner, William A Rose for Emily, January 20, 2015
Gaiman, Neil Truth Is a Black Cave in a Mountain, Jan. 17, 2017
Gaiman, Neil The Case of the Four & Twenty Blackbirds, November 7, 2017
Gaiman, Neil Click Clack the Rattlebag, March 12, 2019
Gaiman, Neil The Witch’s Headstone, June 16, 2020
Gaiman, Neil The Price, September 24, 2019
Garcia, Cristina Dreaming in Cuban March 22, 2016
Gautier, Theophile Mummy’s Foot, July 29, 2014
Gautier, Theophile Clarimonde, July 29, 2014
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper, February 19, 2013
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins When I Was a Witch, February 26, 2019
Grant, Charles L When All the Children Call My Name, May 8, 2018
Groff, Lauren Ghosts and Empties, April 26, 2022
Hammett, Dashiell Creeping Siamese, May 24, 2022
Hammett, Dashiell Slippery Fingers, April 27, 2021
Hammett, Dashiell An Inch And a Half of Glory, May 28, 2019
Hand, Elizabeth The Bacche February 2, 2016, WIHM*
Hauff, Wilhelm The Severed Hand, November 26, 2013
Hawthorne, Julian Absolute Evil, November 8, 2016
Hawthorne, Hildegarde Perdita, February 11, 2014 WIHM*
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Old Manse, May 18, 2017
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Haunted Mind, January 15, 2013
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, July 2, 2013
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Birthmark, April 1, 2014
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Ghost of Dr. Harris, December 9, 2014
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Wives of the Dead; Ethan Brand, October 6, 2015
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The White Maid, November 29, 2016
Hawthorne, Nathaniel John Inglefield’s Thanksgiving, November 20, 2018
Hekate Abduction of Persephone (Mythology), March 30, 2021
Heinlein, Robert All You Zombies, May 5, 2015
Hemingway, Ernest The Killers, January 18, 2016
Henry, O The Furnished Room, September 3, 2013
Hill, Joe Abraham’s Boys May 9, 2017 (contemporary author)
Hodgson, William Hope A Voice in the Night, April 28, 2015
Hodgson, William Hope The Whistling Room, Ghost Finder, Oct. 11, 2016
Hoffmann, E.T.A. The Cremona Violin June 6, 2017
Hoffmann, E.T.A. The Sandman, July 9, 2013
Hoffmann, E.T.A. The Deserted House, March 31, 2015
Howard, Robert E. Skulls in the Stars (Solomon Kane), January 28, 2014
Irving, Washington Old Christmas, December 10, 2019
Jacobs, W.W. The Monkey’s Paw, July 30, 2013
Jackson, Shirley The Possibility of Evil, March 28, 2023
Jackson, Shirley The Witch August 8, 2017
James, Henry, Turn of the Screw, June 12, 2018
James, Henry The Ghostly Rental, January 13, 2015
James, Henry Romance of Certain Old Clothes, May 27, 2014
James, Henry Sir Edmund Orme, October 27, 2020
James, M.R. The Ash Tree, January 1, 2013
James, M.R. Oh Whistle, And I’ll Come to You, My Lad, November 12, 2013
James, M.R. The Tractate Middoth, December 15, 2014
James, M. R. Rats, January 2, 2018
James, M.R. A Warning to the Curious, Ghost Story, December 13, 2021
Joyce, James The Dead, August 27, 2019
Kiernan, Caitlin The Belated Burial, February 11, 2014 WIHM*
Kincaid, Mamaica Girl, March 10, 2020
King, Stephen Harvey’s Dream, December 8, 2022
King, Stephen Premium Harmony, October 20, 2015
Kipling, Rudyard Mark of the Beast, June 10, 2014
Kuttner, Henry The Graveyard Rats, June 11, 2013
Lee, Vernon, A Wicked Voice, November 4, 2-14
LeFanu, Sheridan Carmilla, September 10, 2013
LeFanu, Sheridan Narrative of Ghost of a Hand, March 10, 2015
LeFanu, Sheridan Green Tea, March 10, 2015
LeGallienne, Richard The Haunted Orchard November 5, 2013
Le Guin, Ursula Island of Immortals, May 24, 2016
Leiber, Fritz Smoke Ghost, April 14, 2015
Leiber, Fritz Girl With the Hungrey Eyes April 12, 2016
Leroux, Gaston Phantom of the Opera, Sept. 29, 2015
Leroux, Gaston Mystery of the Yellow Room Sept. 29, 2015
Leroux, Gaston Secret of the Night Sept. 29, 2015
Level, Maurice Night and Silence, August 26, 2014
Ligotti, Thomas Mrs. Rinaldi’s Angel, March 11, 2014
Ligotti, Thomas Nethescurial, March 21, 2017
Link, Kelly, The Faery Handbag, November 19, 2019
Link, Kelly Catskin Jan. 31, 2017 (contemporary author)
Link, Kelly The Specialist’s Hat, October 29, 2013 WIHM*
London, Jack To Build a Fire, November 18, 2014
Long, Julius The Pale Man, October 2, 2018
Lorrain, Jean The Spectral Hand, October 21, 2014
Lovecraft, H.P. The Outsider, February 14, 2022
Lovecraft, H.P. Dreams in the Witch House, November 30 2012
Lovecraft, H.P. The Strange High House in the Mist, June 25, 2013
Lovecraft, H.P. The Cats of Ulthar, August 20, 2013
Lovecraft, H.P. Pickman’s Model, August 19, 2014
Lovecraft, H.P. The Music of Erich Zann, January 7, 2014
Lovecraft, H.P. The Festival, December 2, 2014
Lovecraft, H.P. In the Walls of Eryx, July 14, 2015
Lovecraft, H.P. The Tree, November 17, 2015
Lovecraft, H.P. Haunter of the Dark, October 24, 2017
Lovecraft, H.P. What the Moon Brings, April 10, 2018
Machado, Carmen Maria, Horror Story, July 17, 2018
Macy, Tim The Brass Teapot, September 29, 2014
Marryat, Captain Frederick The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains, August 13, 2013
Matheson, Richard Graveyard Shift (Dark Mother), July 22, 2014
Matthews, Brander The Rival Ghosts, September 23, 2014
Melville, Herman The Piazza, July 30, 2019
Middleton, Richard The Ghost Ship, July 15, 2014
Mitchell, Edward Page The Clock That Went Backward, October 16, 2016
Morrison, Toni Sweet, November 16, 2021
Mosse, Kate Mistletoe Bride February 23, 2016 WIHM*
Mountain Ghosts (Mountain Ghosts, various authors), July 7, 2015
Mulholland, Rosa The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly February 17, 2015 WIHM*
Murakami, Haruki The Ice Man, August 12, 2014
Murakami, Haruki On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning, February 22, 2022
Norton, Alice Andre All Cats Are Gray, February 19, 2021
Nin, Anais The Houseboat Feb. 21, 2017
O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man Is Hard to Find Feb. 14, 2017
O’Connor, Flannery A View of the Woods March 29, 2016
O’Sullivan, Vincent The Business of Madame Jahn, December 10, 2013
Oates, Joyce Carol Where Are You Going, February 25, 2014 WIHM*
Oates, Joyce Carol Big Momma, June 14, 2016
Oliphant, Margaret The Secret Chamber, October 1, 2013
Onions, Oliver The Beckoning Fair One, May 12, 2014
Penny Dreadful Four Stories July 1, 2014
Pliny The Younger The Haunted House, January 3, 2017
Poe, Edgar Allan Spirits of the Dead (poem) January 19, 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan The Oval Portrait, January 22, 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan A Descent Into the Maelstrom, May 28, 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan The Premature Burial, September 24, 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan The Fall of the House of Usher, April 15, 2014
Poe, Edgar Allan Tale of Ragged Mountains, October 28, 2014
Poe, Edgar Allan Ligeia, October 27, 2015
Poe, Edgar Allan Murders in the Rue Morgue, September 6, 2016
Poe, Edgar Allan Some Words With A Mummy, October 25, 2016
Poe, Edgar Allan The Shadow, September 12, 2017
Poe, Edgar Allan The Black Cat, January 16, 2018
Poe, Edgar Allan Masque of the Red Death, January 25, 2022
Polidori, John The Vampyre, June 24, 2014
Prest, Thomas Preskett Varney the Vampire, July 1, 2014 (Penny Dreadful)
Priestley, J.B. The Old Dark House, September 16, 2014 (scroll down)
Reynolds, George W.M. Mysteries of London, July 1, 2014 (Penny Dreadful)
Reynolds, George W.M. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf, July 1, 2014 (Penny Dreadful)
Rice, Anne Master of Rampling Gate, July 8, 2014
Rushdie, Salman The Golden Bough, Jan. 12, 2021
Russell, Alan Married to a Murderer, March 13, 2018
Saki (H.H. Munro) The Open Window, August 18, 2015
Salter, James Last Night, June 11, 2019
Saunders, George Sticks, November 6, 2018
Sayers, Dorothy Unsolved Puzzle of Man With No Face, July 19, 2016
Seignolle, Claude The Ghoulbird, October 20, 2012
Shelley, Mary On Ghosts, October 15, 2013 (scroll down)
Shelley, Mary The Invisible Girl, October 15, 2013
Shelley, Mary The Mortal Immortal, February 26, 2013 WIHM*
Shelley, Mary Transformation, February 4, 2014 WIHM*
Shelley, Mary The Last Man February 8, 2016 WINHM*
Shelley, Mary Anniversary of Her Death Tribute, February 1, 2018
Shelley, Mary, The Dream, August 28, 2018
Smith, Clark Ashton The Beast of Averoigne, November 19, 2013
Snow, Jack Midnight, August 5, 2014
Songling, Pu Strange Stories, Chinese Supernatural Tales, June 2, 2015
Stenbock, Eric The True Story of a Vampire, May 10, 2016
Stevenson, Robert Louis A Devil of a Christmas Murder, December 17, 2013
Stoker, Bram The Judge’s House, August 27, 2013
Stoker, Bram Dracula’s Guest, October 14, 2014
Stoker, Bram Night at the Shifting Bog, March 17, 2015
Stoker, Bram Dream of the Red Hands, November 3, 2015
Stoker, Bram Crystal Cup, March 26, 2019
Sweeny Todd String of Pearls, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, July 1, 2014
Tartini, Giuseppe The Devil’s Trill (biographical) Sept. 15, 2015
Taylor, Lucy Walled, February 18, 2014 WIHM*
Tieck, Johann Ludwig Wake Not the Dead, April 22, 2014
Tolstoy, Alexei Family of Vourdalak, May 19, 2015
Toudouze, George Three Skeleton Key, July 15, 2014 (scroll down)
Twain, Mark A Ghost Story, August 6, 2013
Vandermeer, Jeff The Third Bear, April 16, 2019
Vonnegut, Kurt Harrison Bergeron, Sept. 11, 2018
Walpole, Hugh The Snow, December 18, 2012
Walpole, Hugh The Little Ghost, July 25, 2017
Wells, Catherine The Ghost, February 5, 2019
Wells, H.G. The Magic Shop, July 26, 2021
Wells, H.G. The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham, April 23, 2013
Wells, H.G. The Crystal Egg, September 17, 2013
Wells, H.G. The Stolen Body May 5, 2014
Wells, H.G. The Presence by the Fire, September 16, 2014
Wells, H.G. Valley of the Spiders, January 27, 2015
Wells, H.G. The Red Room, March 7, 2017
Wharton, Edith Afterward, March 5, 2013
Wharton, Edith A Journey, June 3, 2014
Wharton, Edith Bewitched, February 3, 2015 WIHM*
Wharton, Edith Fullness of Life, December 1, 2015
Wharton, Edith House of the Dead Hand, August 9, 2016
Wharton, Edith The Lady’s Maid’s Bell, April 14, 2020
Wilde, Oscar The Canterville Ghost, March 29, 2022
Wilkie, E.M. The Fairy Maiden, June 28, 2022
White, Howard Lucas House of the Nightmare, March 11, 2013 (scroll down)
Wolff, Tobias Bullet in the Brain, Nov. 24, 2020
Woolf, Virginia A Haunted House, July 16, 2013
Woolf, Virginia Anniversary of her Death, March 28, 2017 (Suicide Letter)
Woolf, Virginia, The Mark on the Wall, May 15, 2018
Yeats, W.B. The Village Ghosts, May 11, 2015
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