Weird Fiction
Stories that refuse to explain themselves. Weird fiction sits between horror and fantasy, and its effect is less fright than a lingering wrongness. Machen, Blackwood and Chambers wrote the classics of the form.
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The Willows Classic
Two friends canoeing down the Danube make camp on a tiny island of willows in a vast, flooded marsh, and the willows seem to move.
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The Outsider Classic
A lonely being who has lived his whole life in a dark castle beneath a canopy of trees finally climbs toward the light.
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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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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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The Yellow Sign Classic
A painter in New York keeps seeing a pale, puffy-faced churchyard watchman staring at his studio window, and the watchman looks a lot like a corpse.
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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 Music of Erich Zann Classic
A student in a narrow, steep street in a European city hears music from the attic above him that seems to be holding something back.
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An Inhabitant of Carcosa Classic
A man wakes in an unfamiliar wilderness with no memory of how he arrived, and begins walking toward the city he remembers.
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The Repairer of Reputations Classic
In the strange America of 1920, a man recovering from a head injury becomes convinced of his royal destiny after reading a forbidden play.
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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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The Glamour of the Snow Classic
A writer wintering in a Swiss mountain village meets a mysterious young woman on the moonlit ice rink, and she offers to take him skiing.
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MS. Found in a Bottle Classic
A storm leaves one survivor adrift on a doomed ship, and then something far stranger comes out of the dark water to meet him.
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In the Court of the Dragon Classic
A man at evening mass in Paris notices that the organist is watching him with an expression of pure malice.
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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 Cats of Ulthar Classic
In the town of Ulthar, no man may kill a cat. This is the story of how that law came about.
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The Mask Classic
A sculptor in Paris discovers a chemical solution that turns living things to marble, and his friends begin to worry about what he plans to do with it.
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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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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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A Descent into the Maelström Classic
A white-haired fisherman leads a visitor to a Norwegian cliff and tells how a single day in a whirlpool aged him decades.