The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The Grove of Ashtaroth - John Buchan The Watcher by the Threshold - John Buchan The King in Yellow - Robert William Chambers The Signal-Man - Charles Dickens Trilby - George du Maurier The Lost Stradivarius - John Meade Falkner Curious, If Strange Tales - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman- The Three Strangers - Thomas Hardy The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson The Ghost Pirates - William Hope Hodgson The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving Ghost Stories of Chapelizod - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Child That Went With The Fairies - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Familiar - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Vision Of Tom Chuff - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu At the Mountains of Madness - Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu - Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror - Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen The Inmost Light - Arthur Machen The Novel of the White Powder - Arthur Machen The Terror - Arthur Machen The Beetle - Richard Marsh The Vampire - Jan Neruda In the Dark - Edith Nesbit The Power of Darkness - Edith Nesbit The Demon Spell - Hume Nisbet The Vampire Maid - Hume Nisbet The Fall of the House of Usher - E.A. Poe The Masque of the Red Death - E.A. Poe The Pit and the Pendulum - E.A. Poe The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade - Edgar Allan Poe Varney the Vampire - James Malcom Rymer
Author
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic, with his motto "nothing matters" – earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce." Despite his reputation as a searing critic, however, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. This style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, the theme of war, and impossible events. Bierce disappeared in December 1913 at the age of 71. He is believed to have traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country's ongoing revolution. Despite an abundance of theories, Bierce's ultimate fate remains a mystery. He wrote in one of his final letters: "Good-bye. If you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags, please know that I think it is a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico—ah, that is euthanasia!"
