The Occult
Rituals, curses written in old books, and the people foolish or brave enough to meddle with them. This tag covers witchcraft, black magic and the "occult detectives" of the early twentieth century who investigated it.
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The Ash-tree Classic
In 1690 a woman is hanged for witchcraft on evidence from the squire of Castringham Hall, and the great ash tree outside his window has been watching ever since.
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The Call of Cthulhu Classic
Sorting his late great-uncle's papers, a man finds a clay sculpture of a winged, tentacled being, and notes about artists who all dreamed of it on the same nights.
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The Festival Classic
Summoned by an ancient family tradition, a man arrives at the fog-shrouded seaport of Kingsport for the Yuletide festival.
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Young Goodman Brown Classic
A young Puritan leaves his wife Faith for one night to keep an appointment in the forest outside Salem village.
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The Great God Pan Classic
A doctor performs brain surgery on a young woman to open her eyes to the world beyond the veil, and what she sees reverberates through London society for years.
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The Whistling Room Classic
Carnacki is called to an Irish castle where one room emits a dreadful whistling, and it seems to be getting angrier.
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Ancient Sorceries Classic
A shy Englishman steps off a train in a sleepy French hill town and finds that everyone there seems to be waiting for him.
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Thrawn Janet Classic
An old minister of a moorland parish is haunted by what happened when, as a young man, he hired a housekeeper the villagers called a witch.
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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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Lost Hearts Classic
An orphaned boy is taken in by his elderly cousin, a reclusive scholar with an unusually keen interest in the boy's coming birthday.
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The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain Classic
A curious gentleman, his servant and his dog spend a night in a London house that no tenant can endure.
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The Statement of Randolph Carter Classic
Questioned by the police, Randolph Carter recalls the night he waited by a telephone at the edge of an ancient cemetery while his friend descended into a tomb.
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The Mortal Immortal Classic
A man who has lived for over three centuries explains how he came to drink half of an alchemist's potion.
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Green Tea Classic
A gentle clergyman confides to a doctor that, for years, he has been followed by a small and patient companion that no one else can see.
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Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book Classic
An English scholar in a remote French cathedral town is offered an antique scrapbook at a suspiciously low price.
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Novel of the Black Seal Classic
A governess tells how she came to work for a brilliant professor whose researches led him into the Welsh hills, and to a black stone seal.
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Wandering Willie's Tale Classic
A blind fiddler tells how his grandfather, wrongly accused of not paying his rent, went to the other world to get a receipt from his dead landlord.
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Number 13 Classic
A Danish hotel has no room 13, so why can a guest in room 12 hear someone singing next door every night?
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Transformation Classic
A reckless young nobleman, disinherited and desperate, meets a hideous dwarf on a storm-battered shore who offers him a strange bargain.
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The Inmost Light Classic
An amateur detective of London's odder corners glimpses a face at a suburban window that he will never forget.
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The White People Classic
A conversation about the nature of true evil leads to a green notebook, the secret diary of a girl who learned strange things from her nurse.
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Casting the Runes Classic
After a scholarly society rejects his paper on alchemy, the vengeful Mr. Karswell finds a quiet way to show his displeasure.
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The Hound Classic
Two jaded young men who rob graves for their private museum take a jade amulet from a corpse in Holland, and something begins to follow them home.
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The Gateway of the Monster Classic
The occult investigator Carnacki spends a night in a manor-house room where a door slams itself shut and the bedclothes are flung into corners.
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No. 252 Rue M. le Prince Classic
An American visitor to Paris is offered the chance to spend a night alone in a notorious house whose former owner was a sorceress.
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Secret Worship Classic
A silk merchant on a business trip makes a sentimental detour to the remote mountain school where he was educated as a boy.