First published in 1902 by Harper’s Monthly and reprinted in his third collection of short stories The Lady of the Barge (also, 1902). The Monkey’s Paw is one of the most well-known, adapted, and influential horror short stories ever written. An old war acquaintance brings a furry talisman in the shape of a monkey’s paw,…

Arthur Machen, the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He has garnered a reputation as one most influential classic horror story authors to have ever written. Summary: Leonard, a farm hand, after a day in the city retires to his small house for…

First published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931. Translated by the auth…

Originally published under the title “A Moonlight Fable” in the April 10, 1909, number of Collier…

First published in Zenith in February 1942 and later revised and published in Future in January o…

Ellis Peters (nom de plume of Edith Pargeter) was an English writer, and the short story (origina…

Originally posted on Creepypasta on November 23, 2009 by an anonymous author.An experiment …

Original Spanish title: “La escritura del dios”First published in the literary magazine Sur in 19…

Originally published in 1991 through OMNI magazine.Two multidimensional aliens deliberate o…

First published in the San Francisco Newsletter of December 25, 1886 and was later reprinted as p…