Saturday, October 27, 2012

THE HAUNTED LIBRARY

OUR HONORARY LIBRARIAN FOR THIS COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN  --  BARON WEIRWULF  -- HAS DEMANDED WE RAISE THE LITERACY BAR ON THIS BLOG. 

So therefore, he has recommended a handful of nicely spooky horror stories for October bedtime reading.  The late lamented Horrormasters.com may be gone but it still exists in ghostly form via the Internet Archive which has saved the site and all the horror stories thereon.  So here are a few of our favourite horror stories (by no means not a complete reading list) which we highly recommend for Halloween perusal.  Merely click on a title and it will transport you to the story itself so you can read it online.

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER by Edgar Allan Poe

THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL by Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving

THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE by H.P. Lovecraft

WHAT WAS IT? by Fitz-James O'Brien

THE UPPER BERTH by F. Marion Crawford

LOT NO. 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

OH, WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD by M.R. James

THE BECKONING FAIR ONE by Oliver Onions

 

2 comments:

Weaverman said...

Magnificent choices!

Cerpts said...

Why thank you. And one of these days, I'll learn how to read so I can REALLY enjoy them!