# Online horror story reccomendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209 "2008-07-03T18:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Koldanar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@Koldanar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koldanar)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/1 "2008-07-03T18:14:25Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/2 "2008-07-03T18:17:30Z")
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. > **[GASLIGHT electronic text and discussion site](http://gaslight-lit.s3-website.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/gaslight/index.htm)** > > The Gaslight electronic text (etext) > and discussion list site for mystery, adventure, the weird > and ghost stories. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/3 "2008-07-03T19:28:40Z")
[http://www.mythostomes.com/index.php?option=com\_content&task=blogcategory&id=0&Itemid=74](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… ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/4 "2008-07-03T19:41:52Z")
Do you like short stories? Joe Lansdale shares his on his website – [joerlansdale.com](http://joerlansdale.com) ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/5 "2008-07-03T20:26:37Z")
[The Literary Gothic.](http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/6 "2008-07-03T21:42:57Z")
[Here](http://www.dionaea-house.com/) is something a little different, if you have the patience to check all the links. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/7 "2008-07-03T21:59:50Z")
[QUOTE=BMax] [http://www.mythostomes.com/index.php?option=com\_content&task=blogcategory&id=0&Itemid=74](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… [/QUOTE] [http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/](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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440833&page=1), if you like epistolary fiction with a funny peanut gallery on the side. _cough_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/8 "2008-07-03T22:35:11Z")
You can read all H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction [here](http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/) if you can handle white type on a black screen. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/9 "2008-07-04T03:10:28Z")
[Who Goes There?](http://www.outpost31.com/books/who.txt) (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.) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/10 "2008-07-04T03:34:39Z")
[The greatest thing Bram Stoker ever wrote, besides Dracula.](http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dualists) ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-horror-story-reccomendations/455209/11 "2008-07-04T09:15:17Z")
Probably the most frightening and unsettling story ever written. [STRANGE EVENT IN THE LIFE OF SCHALKEN THE PAINTER](http://home.epix.net/~wallison/schalken.html) It was written by J. Sheridan LeFanu, the greatest writer of ghost stories that ever drew breath.