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• Introduction (Horror Short Stories) • (2017) • essay by Joanna Blythe
• The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Berenice • non-genre • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
  Berenice—A Tale^?Berenice-A Tale
  1835)
• The Haunter of the Dark • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1936) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• Dagon • (1919) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Horror at Red Hook • (1927) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Dead Smile • (1970) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford [as by Francis Marion Crawford]
• The Upper Berth • (1993) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford [as by Francis Marion Crawford]
• The Toll House • (2017) • short story by W. W. Jacobs (variant of The Toll-House 1907)
• Was It a Dream? • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La morte 1887)
• The Diary of a Madman • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Un fou 1885)
• The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Secret of Macarger's Gulch • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• One Summer Night • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• The Secret of the Growing Gold • (1892) • short story by Bram Stoker
• The Invisible Giant • (1881) • short story by Bram Stoker
• "And No Bird Sings" • (1926) • short story by E. F. Benson
• And the Dead Spake • (1923) • short story by E. F. Benson (variant of "And the Dead Spake..." 1922)
• A Warning to the Curious • (1925) • short story by M. R. James
• The Ash Tree • (1962) • short story by M. R. James (variant of The Ash-Tree 1904)
• Count Magnus • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• The Searcher of the End House • [Carnacki (Hodgson)] • (1910) • novelette by William Hope Hodgson
• The Whistling Room • [Carnacki (Hodgson)] • (1910) • short story by William Hope Hodgson