Category
Fiction intended to evoke fear, suspense, or psychological tension.
15 summaries
Mircea Eliade's Miss Christina is a haunting novella of a vampire's ghost haunting a Romanian estate, blurring reality…
A landmark 2009 anthology of vampire short stories, spanning Byron to Stephen King across more than eighty tales.
Empty Words is a collection of John Cage's writings from the 1970s, anchored by the long four-part text…
This chapter establishes abjection as a pre-symbolic process that precedes the formation of the subject and disrupts identity…
Moon Stricken is a short-story anthology collecting 21 tales in the horror and macabre genres.
Shadows of Carcosa is an anthology of weird and cosmic horror fiction published by NYRB Classics.
The volume gathers works from the branch of Bierce's output devoted to the weird, the ghostly, and the…
The narrative is presented as a first-person account of a mysterious and violent death in a remote wilderness…
The volume gathers a series of short stories and anecdotal accounts, each purporting to relate an encounter with…
The collection opens with "The Death of Halpin Frayser" and concludes with "The Stranger," encompassing a range of…
The Fiend's Delight is a collection of short, satirical prose pieces by the American author Ambrose Bierce, assembled…
The novel centers on the crew of the spaceship The Invincible, who land on the seemingly barren planet…
The Hunt is a science fiction short story by Stanisław Lem, written in the late 1950s but unpublished…
The Christian idea, stripped of pious sentiment, is a machine designed to produce a specific kind of terror,…
Washington Irving's classic tale of Ichabod Crane's rivalry with Brom Bones and a terrifying midnight encounter in a…
