Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately thr…
Short story about the communication between a famer's wife and the underground denziens as they discover each other through the farm's recently dug well.
Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a reputation as France's preeminent short story writer, an artist whose cynical and macabre visions paralle…
• The Thing in the Cellar • (1932) • shortstory by David H. Keller, M.D. • The Psychology of Fear • essay by David H. Keller, M.D. • Interview with Dr. Keller • interview of David H. Keller, M.D. • in…
M. R. James was a prolific and hugely successful author, now credited with having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic cliches of his predecessors and…
