Monsters
Something with a body. Creatures, beasts, invisible things and shapes too tall to be a person, from the werewolves of the nineteenth century to the man in the doorway of a CAPTCHA grid.
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The Horla Classic
A man living in a house by the Seine records in his diary a growing sense that something invisible is sharing his home, and drinking his water.
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Pickman's Model Classic
A man explains to a friend why he refuses to ride the Boston subway, and why he cut ties with a brilliant painter of the macabre.
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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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The Interlopers Classic
Two men whose families have feuded for generations meet one winter night in a disputed Carpathian forest, rifles in hand.
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Select All Squares
The login page for a client's server asked me to prove I wasn't a robot. Select all squares with traffic lights. I got it wrong, so it gave me another one. Select all squares with the man in the doorway.
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What Was It? Classic
Boarders in a supposedly haunted New York house are amused by the rumours, until one night something unseen attacks one of them.
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You Have Four Saved Messages
My grandmother moved into memory care in the spring. She calls me most nights and leaves long, wandering voicemails. Lately she's been talking about a nice young man who visits her after lights-out, and how much he knows about my apartment.
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Continue Watching
A new show turned up in the Continue Watching row on our TV. Season 1, Episode 4. Neither of us had ever heard of it. The thumbnail was our kitchen, from up near the ceiling, at night.
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Caterpillars Classic
A guest at a beautiful Italian villa wakes in the night and looks into the unused bedroom next door.
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Dagon Classic
A morphine-addicted sailor writes his last statement, describing what he found when the sea floor rose to the surface.
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The Horror of the Heights Classic
A pilot's bloodstained notebook, found in a Sussex field, records his attempts to fly higher than anyone ever had.
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Mujina Classic
A merchant walking on a lonely Tokyo slope at night finds a young woman weeping beside the moat.
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Thermal
Every winter I count elk from a helicopter over the Idaho backcountry with a thermal camera. Elk show up as bright white shapes on the snow. On a ridge above the Lochsa, the camera showed twenty-three shapes standing in a circle, and they were not elk.
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The Damned Thing Classic
At an inquest in a remote cabin, a coroner's jury hears how a man died while out hunting and is asked to believe the unbelievable.
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The Mother
The bakery I work nights at in Pittsburgh has used the same sourdough starter since 1911. There is one rule: it gets fed at two in the morning, every morning, no matter what. I was late once.
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The Treasure of Abbot Thomas Classic
A puzzle hidden in a church window promises to lead a determined scholar to a medieval abbot's lost gold.
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Gabriel-Ernest Classic
An English country gentleman finds a naked boy sunbathing in his woods who says he hunts by night on four feet.
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Negotium Perambulans Classic
In a remote Cornish fishing village, a strange church panel shows a creature from a psalm, and the villagers do not treat it as a mere image.
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The Dunwich Horror Classic
In a decaying hill village of Massachusetts, a strange child grows unnaturally fast, and his family keeps buying more cattle.
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Jikininki Classic
A travelling Zen priest seeks shelter in a mountain hamlet on the very night a death has occurred, and stays to keep watch over the body.
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How Love Came to Professor Guildea Classic
A cold, rational scientist who despises sentiment finds himself the object of an invisible creature's devotion.
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Olalla Classic
A wounded British officer convalesces at the decaying Spanish mansion of an ancient family, and falls for the beautiful, devout daughter.
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The Wolves of Cernogratz Classic
A newly rich family buys an old castle, and their elderly governess claims to know the legend of its wolves.
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The Terror of Blue John Gap Classic
A doctor convalescing on a Derbyshire farm hears rumours of missing sheep and of something in the old Roman mine.
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The Horror-Horn Classic
At a Swiss ski resort, a visitor hears a local legend of creatures living on the high, lonely mountain, and goes skiing alone anyway.
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The Flowering of the Strange Orchid Classic
A timid bachelor who longs for something exciting to happen buys a strange orchid at auction, the last find of a collector who died in the jungle.
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The Wendigo Classic
On a moose-hunting trip deep in the Canadian backwoods, a guide hears something calling his name from the wind above the trees.
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Dracula's Guest Classic
On Walpurgis Night, an Englishman in Munich ignores his coachman's pleas and walks alone toward an abandoned village.
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Rokuro-Kubi Classic
A former samurai turned wandering priest accepts the hospitality of a woodcutter's family, and in the night finds their bodies without heads.