Body Horror
Horror that happens to the body itself: transformation, infection, things growing where they should not. Kept on the quiet side here, more unsettling than gory.
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Take It In
Every Tuesday an old man brings the same navy suit into a tailor shop in Stockton, with an index card of measurements for the person it's meant to fit. They aren't his. Every week, they're a little less like anybody's.
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Halves
Someone has been eating exactly half of everything in my apartment. Half a sandwich. Half a glass of milk. Half of one grape, cut so cleanly it looks like it was done with a scalpel. I live alone. I've weighed everything.
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Burn Morels
The spring after a wildfire, the burned forest fills up with morels, and pickers come from all over the West to pick them. The buyer at the Okanogan camp gave me eight rules on an index card. The one about the green tree is the only one I broke.
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The Beast with Five Fingers Classic
A young man inherits an unusual legacy from his blind uncle, a scholar whose hand kept writing after his death.
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Novel of the White Powder Classic
A young woman watches her studious brother take a tonic from the local chemist and change, slowly, into something other.
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Classic
A mesmerist wonders what would happen if a man were put into a trance at the very moment of death, and finds a willing subject.
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Berenice Classic
A brooding scholar becomes fixated on one small detail of his dying cousin's face, and cannot stop thinking about it.
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Cool Air Classic
A man renting a cheap room in a New York boarding house discovers that his upstairs neighbour, a brilliant doctor, needs his apartment kept very cold.
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Whorls
In March my phone stopped recognizing my thumb. In April a background check said my fingerprints belonged to a nineteen-year-old who went missing in Idaho in 1987.
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Rappaccini's Daughter Classic
A student in Padua looks down from his window into the garden of a famous scientist and falls in love with the beautiful daughter who tends its strange flowers.
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The Colour Out of Space Classic
A surveyor west of Arkham hears of the "strange days" that followed when a meteorite fell on a lonely farm in 1882.