50 Best Short Horror Stories 1. “The Infamous Bengal Ming" by Rajesh Parameswaran "Awwww, a story about a tiger who falls in love with the tiger keeper! How sweet!" is not what you will be ...

Another short story that has already inspired a number of adaptations, but is more relevant today than ever, is 1948’s “The Lottery” — one of the most unsettling works by Shirley Jackson ...

The delicate art of the short story is practiced in every literary genre, but it’s perhaps never more effective than when it’s deployed for horror. Yes, horror novels can be vast, 100,000-word ...

The scariest part of1408 is how genuinely unexpected it is.When readers imagine a haunted hotel room, they may be expecting bleeding walls or ghosts, but this story does something entirely different.

It’s the best short story I’ve ever read and it’s included here, because it’s horrifying – mankind, sometimes, can be far worse than any ghost, monster, or demon.

How ‘The Monkey’ Adapts a Short Story by a Horror Legend. Unlike “Longlegs,” Osgood Perkins is not the sole artist behind his new horror comedy ...

A collection of spooky short fiction by Edith Wharton and a historical nonfiction narrative about a woman who claimed to be haunted. ... (one of the subtlest scary stories ever written, for my money).