My Favourite Short Horror Stories

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2		Title	Author	Collection	Description
3	1	Shay Corsham Worsted	Garth Nix	Best New Horror... Vol 7	A retired government official must return to duty when a secret experiment goes out of control.
4	2	The Autopsy	Michael Shea	Polyphemus	A dying medical examiner is called in to autopsy a very suspicious body, leading to a grueling duel of wills.
5	3	The Quest For Blank Claveringi	Patricia Highsmith	Ghost Box II	A naive professor, on a quest to name a new species after himself, gets far more than he bargained for on a deserted island.
6	4	The Voice In The Night	William Hope Hodgson	Psuedopod # 250	A ship's crew run into a curious castaway on the open sea, one hiding a dreadful affliction.
7	5	Where Angels Come In	Adam Nevill	Hauntings	Two young boys break into an abandoned mansion that turns out to be not abandoned at all.
8	6	In A Cavern, In A Canyon	Laird Barron	Best New Horror.. Vol 8	A woman's lifelong encounters with a creature that pretends to be an injured person in need of help.
9	7	Hippocampus	Adam Nevill	Wyrd And Other Derelictions	A character-less exploration of a shipping freighter where something malevolent has occured.
10	8	The Animator's House	Adam Golaski	Worse Than Myself	A young girl encounters a horrific evil in a roadside diner.
11	9	Mother Of Stone	John Langan	The Wide, Carnivorous Sky	The supernatural events that occur after a headless, pregnant sculpture is unearthed.
12	10	Tiptoe	Laird Barron	Not A Speck Of Light	A man recalls growing up with a most eccentric father.
13	11	Noble Rot	Nick Antosca	McSweeny's Horror	A family deals with the strange behavior of their young daughter, and its connection to their recently deceased grandfather.
14	12	The Folding Man	Joe Lansdale	Haunted Legends	A group of joyriding teens aggravates a car full of exceptionally strange nuns.
15	13	The Summer People	Shirley Jackson	Dark Tales	An elderly couple decides to stay in their summer cottage off-season, triggering a hostile response.
16	14	Smoke Ghost	Fritz Lieber	The Weird	A man entertains the idea that all of the modern world's evils have personified themselves in a singular stalking presence.
17	15	What Water Reveals	Adam Golaski	Worse Than Myself	A struggling alcoholic begins to think he has unleashed a hostile force.
18	16	The October Game	Ray Bradbury	http://www.davidglensmith.com/lonestar/1302/PDFs/Bradbury-October.pdf	A family man orchestrates a sick joke on his family one Halloween night.
19	17	Fat Face	Michael Shea	Year's Best Horror...XVI	A prostitute becomes enamored with a portly, cheerful man who watches her from his window from across the street.
20	18	I Hae Dream'd A Dreary Dream	John Alfred Taylor	Year's Best Horror...XI	A mountaineer ignores a dire warning and explores a mysterious mountain pass, with terrifying consequences.
21	19	Where The Summer Ends	Karl Edward Wagner	In A Lonely Place	An art student and a junk dealer encounter the mysterious circumstances around a series of murders, all near kudzu vines.
22	20	In The Hills, The Cities	Clive Barker	The Books Of Blood	A quarreling couple encounter a staggering and horrifying tradition enacted between two townships.
23	21	The Man From The Peak	Adam Golaski	Worse Than Myself	No one at a fancy party seems to think the visitor in their midst is the least bit strange.
24	22	The Pennine Tower Restaurant	Simon Kurt Unsworth	Hauntings	The documented disappearances and encounters with the supernatural at a restaurant at the top of a tower.
25	23	Again	Ramsey Campbell	Alone With The Horrors	A man enlisted to help an elderly woman gain entry to her dilapidated cottage realizes things may not be what they seem.
26	24	Pumpkin Head	Al Sarrantonio	Year's Best Horror...XI	A young girl attends a very special Halloween party...
27	25	The Thin People	Brian Lumley	Year's Best Horror...XVI	An old drunk tells a tale of the thin people, a hidden populace that have made his younger friends neighbourhood their home.
28	26	Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back	Joe Lansdale	Year's Best Horror...XV	A scientist responsible for the end of the world deals with horrifying mutations and his own overwhelming, insidious guilt.
29	27	The Willows	Algernon Blackwood	The Weird	Two travellers moving down river encounter something strange with the willow trees...
30	28	Casting The Runes	M.R. James	The Weird	A man realizes he may have been cursed by a practitioner of black magic, and he has very little time before something comes for him.
31	29	The Hell Screen	Ryunosake Akutagawa	The Weird	The hideous story behind a painting depicting a vision of hell.
32	30	The Night Wire	H.F. Arnold	The Weird	Two men on the night wire, receiving wire-sent news from around the world, start getting messages of sinister occurences in an unknown country.
33	31	The Crowd	Ray Bradbury	The Weird	A man realizes that the same crowd of people assembles around the dying after terrible accidents.
34	32	It's A Good Life	Jerome Bixby	The Weird	A small town is held in the sway of a child with horrible powers.
35	33	Uncle Tuggs	Michael Shea	Polyphemus	After the disappearance of Uncle Tuggs, a hired hand witnesses the supernatural deaths of his family members, caused by various living power tools.
36	34	The Same Dog	Robert Aickman	Cold Hand In Mine	Two children have an encounter with a dog.
37	35	The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be	Gahan Wilson	The Weird	A group of picnickers on the beach encounter two strange men who seem to have stepped out of a fable.
38	36	Sandkings	George R.R. Martin	The Weird	A man discovers the consequences of mistreating his pets.
39	37	Bloodchild	Octavia E. Butler	The Weird	A parasitic alien species uses humanity in its life-cycle.
40	38	The Dark	Karen J. Fowler	The Weird	Disparate accounts of a mysterious figure seens in the tunnels during the vietnam war, and his connection to a feral child found in the woods.
41	39	The Country Doctor	Steven Utley	The Weird	Scientists unearthing corpses for a geneological study discover a hideous secret.
42	40	The God Of Dark Laughter	Michael Chabon	https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/09/the-god-of-dark-laughter	A detective stumbles on the secret history of clowns, and an unseen war that has existed throughout history.
43	41	Same Time, Same Place	Mervyn Peake	The Weird	A young man meets a beautiful woman in the city.
44	42	When Susurrus Stirs	Jeremy Robert Johnson	Entropy In Bloom	The relationship between a man and the worm living in his brain.
45	43	Growing Things	T.E.D. Klein	999	Letters about a growing thing in a man's home, sent to a magazine, may have horrible implications for some new home-owners.
46	44	Black Man With A Horn	T.E.D. Klein	Dark Gods	A contemporary of Lovecraft realizes he may be living out one of his own weird tales after an encounter on an airplane.
47	45	Sticks	Karl Edward Wagner	The Dark Descent	An illustrator finds out the meaning behind some odd signs made from sticks hung in the pennsylvanian wilderness.
48	46	The Answer Tree	Steven R. Boyet	Silver Scream	A supposedly cursed film makes quite the impression on a critic.
49	47	The Animal Fair	Robert Bloch	Masters Of Darkness	A man travelling with a performing gorilla has a big secret.
50	48	The Horse Lord	Lisa Tuttle	A Nest Of Nightmares	A family moves into a mansion with an insidious past, and it may hold terrible implications for them...and their horses.
51	49	The Blind Man	Jessica Amanda Salmonson	Shadows 8	A blind man takes a bus ride.
52	50	Pilots	Joe Lansdale / Dan Lowry	Stalkers	Veterans are still living out the war on America's highways, and the killing has not stopped.
53	51	Slow	Ramsey Campbell	Chapbook	A man held as a pet on an alien planet realizes that he must stay one step ahead of an implacable, but immensely slow, threat.
54	52	As Summer's Mask Slips	Gordon B. White	Collection of the same name	A grieving daughter returns to the summer cottage she spent time at with her deceased father, only to encounter a stalking presence.
55	53	Beyond The Cleft	Tom Reamy	San Diego Lightfoot Sue	At exactly the same moment in time, something horrible happens to every child in a small town, with violent repercussions for the other townsfolk.
56	54	Guignol	Orrin Grey	Collection of the same name	A son finds his deceased father's workshop...And his puppets.
57	55	The Jar	Ray Bradbury	October Country	A small town man gathers people every night to look at a mysterious jar, and to debate its contents.
58	56	The Emissary	Ray Bradbury	October Country	A sick child who is confined to his bed uses his dog as a contact to the outside world.
59	57	The Wind	Ray Bradbury	October Country	A man confesses to his friend that he feels as if he is being stalked by the wind.
60	58	Call First	Ramsey Campbell	Alone With The Horrors	A would-be robber discovers why his potential victim always calls home first.
61	59	Down There	Ramsey Campbell	Alone With The Horrors	A woman working late finds the hideous things lurking under her building.
62	60	Gray Matter	Stephen King	Night Shift	A young boy's father drinks a tainted beer....And starts to change.
63	61	Shadetree	Michael Reeves	Ghost Box I	Shadetree is only part human. This is his romance.
64	62	The Clock	W.F. Harvey	Ghost Box I	A woman sent to collect a clock from an empty house may or may not encounter...Something.
65	63	N0072-JK1	Adam Corbin Fusco	Ghost Box I	A scientific study of deeply questionable morality.
66	64	Word Doll	Jeffrey Ford	The Best Of Jeffrey Ford	A man comes across a roadside museum for Word Dolls, and learns some very interesting stories about them.
67	65	Report On The Flanking Action	Larry Blamire	Pseudopod # 884	A group of soldiers gathered around a fire realize one of them may not be who he says he is, and in fact may not be human.
68	66	They Bite	Anthony Boucher	https://talesofmytery.blogspot.com/2013/02/anthony-boucher-they-bite.html	An industrial spy stumbles across a terrifying local legend....and they bite.
69	67	The Lonesome Place	August Derleth	https://www.rcsdk12.org/cms/lib04/NY01001156/Centricity/Domain/10241/The%20Lonesome%20Place%20-%20August%20Derleth.pdf	Two children encounter the lonesome place, and the thing that inhabits it...
70	68	The Whole Town's Sleeping	Ray Bradbury	https://www.scribd.com/document/729457798/The-Whole-Towns-Sleeping	A woman makes her way home while a serial killer is on the loose in her small town.
71	69	Incident On And Off A Mountain Road	Joe Lansdale	Best of Joe Lansdale	A woman is abducted by a deranged killer, but she may not be the easy prey he was counting on.
72	70	The Human Chair	Edogawa Rampo	https://www.docdroid.net/hlwf/the-human-chair-pdf	A writer is mailed a very strange story about a man who sewed himself into a chair to be close to the woman he's stalking.
73	71	The Black Maybe	Attila Veres	Collection of the same name	A family visiting a very strange farm as part of a cultural exchange is witness to their bizarre crop.
74	72	To Bite A Dog	Attila Veres	The Black Maybe	A man reckons with his partner's obsession with biting dogs.
75	73	Singing My Sister Down	Margot Lanagan	The Weird	A woman comforts her sister as she's put to death in an exceptionally strange way.
76	74	The Whisperer In Darkness	H.P. Lovecraft	The Best of H.P. Lovecraft	A man receives increasingly alarming messages from his isolated friend.
77	75	The Colour Out Of Space	H.P. Lovecraft	The Best of H.P. Lovecraft	A family is corrupted and destroyed by invisible presence from a fallen meteor.
78	76	The Shadow Over Innsmouth	H.P. Lovecraft	The Best of H.P. Lovecraft	A visit to a very hostile small fishing village.
79	77	The Lurking Fear	H.P. Lovecraft	The Best of H.P. Lovecraft	A man investigates a series of murders near an abandoned mansion, all during lightning storms.
80	78	Inventory	Carmen Maria Machado	Her Body And Other Parties	A woman lists her sexual encounters before, during and after the end of the world.
81	79	Scold's Bridal: A Cruelty	Richard Gavin	Best Horror of the Year... Vol. 13	A man is forced to reckon with the use of the device he was commissioned to make.
82	80	The Quizmasters	Gerard McKeown	Best Horror of the Year... Vol. 14	A young man out for a bike ride has an unforgettable encounter with the quizmasters.
83	81	Each Thing I Show You Is A Piece Of My Death	Gemma Files / Stephen J. Barringer	Best Horror of the Year... Vol. 2	A dead man starts appearing in the background of television footage.
84	82	What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night	Michael Marshall Smith	Best Horror of the Year... Vol. 2	A family wakes up in the middle of the night to find all of the doors and windows in their bedroom have disappeared.
85	83	Indiana Death Song	Max Booth III	Abnormal Statistics	The dysfunctional life and times of a young boy living in a hotel room.
86	84	Can't Stop Here	David Busboom	Every Crawling, Putrid Thing	A man driving home encounters prehistoric creatures.
87	85	No Matter Which Way We Turned	Brian Evenson	The Best Horror of the Year...Vol. 9	Townsfolk debate what to do about a young girl made up of two backs, no fronts.
88	86	Sunbleached	Nathan Ballingrud	North American Lake Monsters	A vampire recovering under a mobile home talks to a young boy.
89	87	The Good Husband	Nathan Ballingrud	North American Lake Monsters	A husband deals with something happening to his wife.
90	88	You Go Where It Takes You	Nathan Ballingrud	North American Lake Monsters	A waitress has an encounter with a man with a morbid and freeing ability.
91	89	The Samhain Tapes	Colin Leonard	Dead Letters	A researcher chronicling regional folk games has a nasty encounter.
92	90	Re: The Hand (Of God)	J.A.W. McCarthy	Dead Letters	A woman trapped in an office building must deal with...The Hand.
93	91	In The Cellar	Adam Golaski	Worse Than Myself	A man recounts a recalled story from his childhood about his neighbour and her strange cellar.
94	92	The Poor Weather Crossings Company	Simon Kurt Unsworth	Diseases of the Teeth	A man responds to a flyer advertising a walking tour through a bay during some very bad weather.
95	93	Something Passed By	Robert R. McCammon	Blue World	Something passed by, and now the world is wrong.
96	94	The Jaunt	Stephen King	Skeleton Crew	A father tells his nervous family about the history of teleportation, right before they're set to travel by teleportation to another planet.
97	95	The Last Feast of Harlequin	Thomas Ligotti	Grimscribe	An anthropologist studies a festival involving clowns.
98	96	The Bungalow House	Thomas Ligotti	https://pseudopod.org/2013/09/06/pseudopod-350-the-bungalow-house/	A narrator speaks about a very strange bungalow house.
99	97	Don't Look Now	Daphne Du Maurier	Title collection	A grieving couple receive a message from an old woman who claims to be psychic.
100	98	In The Black Mill	Michael Chabon	online	A man investigates the mill in a small town where people seem to suffer an abnormally high number of injuries.