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 ...

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.

These short stories from yesteryear could be the future of horror. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Another short story that ...

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).

There’s a reason this story comes up over and over again in discussions of the scariest horror short fiction ever published, and it’s all in the way King brings this tale in for a landing ...