The Pumpkin Giant by Mary Wilkins Freeman
A very long time ago, before our grandmother’s time, or our great-grandmother’s, or our grandmothers’ with a very long string of greats prefixed
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A very long time ago, before our grandmother’s time, or our great-grandmother’s, or our grandmothers’ with a very long string of greats prefixed
Continue readingRecurring encounters over many years with the mysterious and alluring Madame de St. Croix, who seems to maintain eternal youth and beauty while spellbinding a succession of men, is she a vampire?
Continue reading“The Mark of the Beast” helped popularize and cement the werewolf as a staple figure in horror fiction. But many examples of werewolf literature existed for centuries prior to when Kipling published his story in 1890.
Continue readingWhen we started for our drive the sun was shining brightly on Munich, and the air was full of the
Continue readinghere are ghosts on the Underground.You don’t notice them because they look just like you, or a ticket inspector. They clutch their lost life as
Continue readingNORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square groun
Continue readingTowards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very
Continue readingHalloween isn’t all fun and games. Sometimes it’s a memory you might want to forget.
Continue readingLorie L. LaPrelle’s story of being a child and learning a new found fear. The story is one of misunderstanding and childhood terror.
Continue readingA Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years.
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