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"Moonlight Sonata" (1931) by Alexander Woolcott

The Dream Detective, Being Some Account of the Methods of Moris Klaw (1925) by Sax Rohmer

"The Woman at Seven Brothers" (1917) by Wilbur Daniel Steele

The Red Thumb Mark (1907) by R. Austin Freeman

"The Storm" (1944) by McKnight Malmar

This Haunted Heaven: Ten Strange Stories (2024) by Reggie Oliver

Found: Eighteen stories of found footage horror (2022) Edited by Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias

"The Upper Berth" (1885) by F. Marion Crawford

In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (2024) by Joe R. Lansdale

"The Metronome" (1934) by August Derleth

All the Fiends of Hell (2023) by Adam L. G. Nevill

Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors (2016) by Adam Nevill

Nocturnes (2004) By John Connolly

The Haunted Forest Tour (2007) by James A. Moore & Jeff Strand

Not A Speck of Light (2024) by Laird Barron

The Year's Best Horror Stories 22 (1994) by Karl Edward Wagner

“The Beautiful Feast of the Valley” by Stephen Gallagher

The Year's Best Horror Stories 19 (1991) edited by Karl Edward Wagner

This Is Halloween (2016) by James A. Moore

“The Nature of the Beast” by Sharon Gosling

“The Scariest Thing in the World” by Michael Marshall Smith

“Not Our Brother” (1982) by Robert Silverberg

The Year's Best Horror Stories 5 (1977) edited by Gerald Page

“Dust Upon a Paper Eye” by Cate Gardner

Literally Dead: Tales of Halloween Hauntings (2021) edited by Gaby Triana with John Polisano

“The Ultimate Halloween Party App” by Lisa Morton

“I Wait for You” by Eygló Karlsdóttir

Halloween Nights: Tales of Autumn Fright (2021), edited by James A. Moore.

“The Folding Man” (2010) by Joe R. Lansdale

“Bleed “(1995) by Richard Christian Matheson

"Hallowe'en" by Conrad Aiken

“Her Face” by Ramsey Campbell

The Year's Best Horror Stories 3 (1975) edited by Richard Davis

“A Man Totally Alone” by Robert Hood

"PRIVATE—KEEP OUT" by Philip MacDonald (1896-1980)

Supplement: October Screams Derrida

October Screams: A Halloween Anthology (2023) edited by Kenneth W. Cain

“Before the Parade Passes By” by Marie O'Regan

“The October Widow” (2014) by Angela Slatter

“Queen of the Hunt” by Adrian Cole

The Year's Best Horror Stories 2 (1974) edited by Richard Davis

“Bone Fire” by Storm Constantine

“Fragile Masks” by Richard Gavin

Halloween Kills: The Official Movie Novelization (2021) by Tim Waggoner

Torments (1990) by Lisa W. Cantrell

Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts (2015) edited by Mark Parker

“Halloween Treats” poem by Jane Yolen

Notes from: The Modernist Papers (2007) by Frederic Jameson

“Memories of Día de los Muertos” by Nancy Kilpatrick

“Lantern Jack” (2010) by Christopher Fowler

“The Phénakisticope of Decay” by James Ebersole

“Pumpkin Kids” by Robert Shearman

“Reflections in Black” by Steve Rasnic Tem

“White Mare” by Thana Niveau

The Year's Best Horror Stories 1 (1971) edited by Richard Davis

“The Millennial’s Guide to Death” by Scott Bradfield

“The Halloween Monster” by Alison Littlewood

“In the Year of Omens” (2014) by Helen Marshall

The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories (2018) edited by Stephen Jones

"Used Car" (1932) by H. R. Wakefield

“The Dust-Cloud” (1906) by E. F. Benson

Domain (1984) by James Herbert

Lair (1979) by James Herbert

The Rats (1974) by James Herbert

Universal Harvester (2017) by John Darnielle

By Reason of Insanity (1979) Shane Stevens

Visible and Invisible (1923) by E. F. Benson

I have been reading James Herbert’s riveting rat trilogy this week

A Maze for the Minotaur and Other Strange Stories (2022) by Reggie Oliver

Dirda on horror

The Sending (1980) by Geoffrey Household

Red Anger (1975) by Geoffrey Household

René Crevel

A spectral interlude in Mr. Standfast (1919) by John Buchan

Dance of the Dwarfs (1968) by Geoffrey Household

The Grave (1981)

Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant (2012)

The Bloodwind (1982)

You Like It Darker (2024) by Stephen King

The Curse (1977)

“The Dreamers” by Stephen King

The Black Carousel (1995)

Dialing the Wind (1989)

The Orchard (1986)

Nightmare Seasons (1982)

Tales from the Nightside (1981)

Preface: Approaching Charles L. Grant (1942-2006)

The Year's Best Horror Stories XXI (1993) edited by Karl Edward Wagner

The comfort of ending it all

Weather -- I too dislike it!

#RIP Ray Garton 1962-2024 🍷

The Nebuly Coat (1903) by J. Meade Falkner

“....like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”

“It would make a beautiful ruin”

“Reading for Form”

Indigenous specters

The sound of pleasing terror

Ghost Gleams: Tales of the Uncanny (1921) by W. J. Wintle

Ghost Gleams: Tales of the Uncanny (1921) by W. J. Wintle

"Solange: Dr. Ledru's Story of the Reign of Terror" (1849) by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

Nova weather

The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hodgson

Trigger Warnings and Spoiler Alerts

"QX" by Mark Valentine

House of souls on the planet of the apes

The Bad Weather Friend (2024) by Dean Koontz

An ecstasy of action: telepathy and the uncanny in Blyton and Bowie

In Ghostly Company (1922) by Amyas Northcote

Reading After Dusk Newsletter

Ghostwritten (2022) by Ronald Malfi

Ten favorite reads of 2023

#RIP Brian Lumley (1937-2024)

"Beetles" (1938) by Robert Bloch

David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine (2023) by Nicholas Royle

"Lot No. 249" (1894) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Four seasons of horror fiction

A History of the Modern British Ghost Story (2011) by Simon Hay

David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Nicholas Royle

Phil Rickman and MerrilyWatkins

[Revised] The Valley of Fear (1915) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My Ramsey Campbell Itinerary (thus far)

"The Red Lodge" (1928) by H. Russell Wakefield