So, bored at work today at lunch, I started to wander around, looking for what I could find. I’m currently reading House of Leaves, but I left that at home (of course) so I found myself looking for anything horror related. What I’ve found so far seems to be …juvenile at best? Either rather poor writing, rather insipid story twists, or a little from both A and B.
Basically, would you kind dopers be able to reccomend any free online stories or sites that are a good, quick read?
There’s a lot of old good stuff online. Somebody once suggested M.R. James as an excellent turn of the century horror author, and I stumbled on “Oh Whistle and I’ll Come To You My Lad” because of the title, and oddly enough I’ve run into several allusions to it since then. Also, I found it terrifying.
http://www.mythostomes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=0&Itemid=74
That’s a shitload of HP Lovecraft, maybe his whole catalogue. I don’t know if you like his style or if you would consider it scary today…
Do you like short stories? Joe Lansdale shares his on his website – joerlansdale.com
There are links to stories of all the great horror masters of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
I particularly recommend EF Benson, he wrote some very creepy stuff.
Here is something a little different, if you have the patience to check all the links.
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/ may be a bit easier to navigate, if you want Lovecraft, and it’s at least allegedly complete.
There’s also my curious parcel thread, if you like epistolary fiction with a funny peanut gallery on the side. cough
You can read all H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction here if you can handle white type on a black screen.
Who Goes There? (1938) - by John W. Campbell, Jr. (under the pen name Don A. Stuart)
This is a novella, actually, and the work upon which the film The Thing is based. Great story. (Not a “quick read” though.)
Probably the most frightening and unsettling story ever written.
STRANGE EVENT IN THE LIFE OF SCHALKEN THE PAINTER
It was written by J. Sheridan LeFanu, the greatest writer of ghost stories that ever drew breath.