"Ooze"
© 1923
by
Anthony M. Rud

In the heart of a second-growth piney-woods jungle of southern Alabama, a region sparsely settled by backwoods blacks and Cajans  - that queer, half-wild people descended from Acadian exiles of the middle eighteenth century (1) - stands a strange, enormous ruin ( Read more... )

“The Smiling Face”

© 1950

by

Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Sir Cedric Harbin, the British archaeologist, rolled his head from side to side irritably on the canvas cot. It was the scream of a jaru - jaguar - that had waked him this time. Two hours ago, it had been the chittering of night-monkeys, half an hour before that, some other weird jungle-noise.

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I commented on FIMFiction Net on Xepher's story Three Wishes: the Hole in the Sun (sequel to another excellent story by the same author), that if I wanted to introduce Rainbow Dash to genre science fiction I'd start with E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Galactic Patrol," which our favorite supersonic pegasus would probably consider "AWESOME!"  That led me to ( Read more... )

“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”

© 1845

by

Edgar Allan Poe

Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would have been a miracle had it not-especially under the circumstances. Through the desire of all parties concerned, to keep the affair from ( Read more... )

“A Fragment of Life”

© 1905

by

Arthur Machen

I.

Edward Darnell awoke from a dream of an ancient wood, and of a clear well rising into grey film and vapour beneath a misty, glimmering heat; and as his eyes opened he saw the sunlight bright in the room, sparkling on the varnish of the new furniture. He turned and found his wife's place vacant, and ( Read more... )

"Pickman's Model"

© 1927

by

H. P. Lovecraft

You needn’t think I’m crazy, Eliot-plenty of others have queerer prejudices than this. Why don’t you laugh at Oliver’s grandfather, who won’t ride in a motor? If I don’t like that damned subway, it’s my own business; and we got here more quickly anyhow in the taxi. We’d have had to walk up the hill ( Read more... )

"The Ghoul"

© 1934

by

Clark Ashton SmithDuring the reign of the Caliph Vathek, a young man of good repute and family, named Noureddin Hassan, was hauled before the Cadi Alimed ben Becar at Bussorah. Now Noureddin was a comely youth, of open mind and gentle mien; and great was the astonishment of the Cadi and of all others present when they heard ( Read more... )

"The Children of the Night"

© 1931

by

Robert E. Howard

There were, I remember, six of us in Conrad's bizarrely fashioned study, with its queer relics from all over the world and its long rows of books which ranged from the Mandrake Press edition of Boccaccio to a Missale Romanum, bound in clasped oak boards and printed in Venice, 1740. Clemants ( Read more... )

"The Space-Eaters"

© 1928

by
Frank Belknap Long

The cross is not a passive agent. It protects the pure of heart, and it has often appeared in the air above our sabbats, confusing and dispersing the powers of Darkness. -John Dee's Necronomicon

I.The horror came to Partridgeville in a blind fog ( Read more... )

“Facts Concerning the
Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family”

© 1921

by

H. P. Lovecraft

I.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate ( Read more... )