| 1989-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Midnight |
Dean R. Koontz |
|
|
SF (1), contemporary (1), nanotechnology (1), shapeshifting (1), only humans (1), service dogs (1), horror (1)
|
| 1989-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Shed His Grace |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
realism (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), Olympics (1)
|
| 1989-10-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Brains of Rats |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
horror (1), SF (1), contemporary (1), near future (1), medical (1)
|
| 1989-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Great and Secret Show |
Clive Barker |
|
|
supernatural thriller (1), apocalypse (1), The Art (1), horror (1), reality transformed (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fruiting Bodies |
Brian Lumley |
|
|
Northeast English coast (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), rot (1), deserted town (1), coastal subsidence (1), horror (1)
|
| 1988-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Promise of Warmth |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), Latin America (1), horror (1)
|
| 1988-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Yellow Hands |
T. H. White |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), children protagonists (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bride of Satan |
William Schoell |
|
|
slasher movie (1), demonic possession (1), serial killings (1), murder mystery (1), nuns (1), hollywood (1), contemporary (1), demons (1), ghosts (1), female protagonist (1), horror (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Brains of Rats |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
horror (1), biology (1), contemporary (1), first person (1)
|
| 1985-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
How Spoilers Bleed |
Clive Barker |
|
|
curse (1), disease (1), horror (1)
|
| 1985-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Illusion |
Clive Barker |
|
|
magician (1), occult detective (1), horror (1), pact with the devil (1), deals with the devil (1)
|
| 1985-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Twilight at the Towers |
Clive Barker |
|
|
lycanthropy (1), espionage (1), horror (1)
|
| 1984-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
American presidents (1), satire (1), organ transplants (1), horror (1), near future (1), first person (1)
|
| 1983-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Amanda and the Alien |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
into-movie (1), adolescent girls (1), horror (1), humor (1), contemporary (1), first contact (1), shapeshifting alien (1)
|
| 1981-08-03 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Conversion |
Bob Shaw |
|
|
alien visitation (1), cold (1), wormholes (1), first person point of view (1), oil well (1), horror (1), zombie (1)
|
| 1981-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stonewalkers |
Vivien Alcock |
|
|
Young Adult (1), horror (1), england (1), statues (1)
|
| 1980-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Nightflyers |
George R. R. Martin |
|
|
into-tv (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1), ship AI (1), interstellar travel (1), alien artifact (1), horror (1), psychic powers (1), holograms (1), genetically enhanced humans (1)
|
| 1980-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Secrets of the Heart |
Charles L. Grant |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), psychic powers (1)
|
| 1977-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Nina |
Robert Bloch |
|
|
snake people (1), Amazon jungle (1), horror (1), Brazil (1)
|
| 1977-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The House Sitters |
Raylyn Moore |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), house sitters (1), plant breeding (1)
|
| 1977-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tunnel |
Roger Aday |
|
|
only Earth (1), only humans (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), tunnel (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1976-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Night Chills |
Dean R. Koontz |
|
|
horror (1), mind control (1), psychopath (1), murder (1), rape (1)
|
| 1976-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pattern |
Ramsey Campbell |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), magical realism (1)
|
| 1973-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bleeding Stones |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
gargoyles (1), New York City (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), horror (1)
|
| 1971-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Animal Fair |
Robert Bloch |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), realism (1)
|
| 1967-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
insanity (1), military AI (1), horror (1), fantastical realism (1), physical torture (1), roc (1), irony (1), mental torture (1), self-sacrifice (1), into-video game (1), postapocalyptic (1), last man on Earth (1), science fiction (1), cold (1), LGBTQ+ (1), revenge (1), survival (1), longevity (1), Body modification (1), into-radio (1), first person point of view (1), time perception (1), artificial intelligence (1)
|
| 1966-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Inner Room |
Robert Aickman |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), uncanny (1), eerie (1)
|
| 1963-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Nice, Shady Place |
Dennis Etchison |
|
|
contemporary (1), only Earth (1), summer camp (1), mutations (1), infiltration (1), horror (1)
|
| 1963-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Faceless Thing |
Edward D. Hoch |
|
|
compassion (1), vengeance (1), brother and sister (1), old age (1), horror (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1962-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Streets of Ashkelon |
Harry Harrison |
|
|
alien culture (1), religion (1), interstellar travel (1), space traders (1), missionaries (1), horror (1), science fiction (1), atheism (1), aliens (1), missionary (1), innocence (1)
|
| 1961-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sardonicus |
Ray Russell |
|
|
Merril07 (1), 1800s (1), wealth (1), risus sardonicus (1), horror (1), lottery ticket (1), exhumation (1), disinterment (1), ironic justice (1), childhood sweethearts (1), hysterical paralysis (1), doctor (1), first person point of view (1), england (1), Bohemia (1)
|
| 1960-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Graveyard Shift |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), rural America (1), epistolary format (1), mother (1), child (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ringing the Changes |
Robert Aickman |
|
|
married couple (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), resurrection (1), church bells (1), vacation (1), england (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The October Country |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
The Seven-League Shelf (1), supernatural (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1)
|
| 1954-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fondly Fahrenheit |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
transference (1), android (1), horror (1), psychological (1), into-tv (1), interstellar travel (1), murder (1), first person point of view (1), androids (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1954-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dwarf |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
horror (1), realism (1), contemporary (1), carnies (1)
|
| 1954-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Father-Thing |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
horror (1), body snatchers (1), into-tv (1), father (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
It's a Good Life |
Jerome Bixby |
|
|
mutant (1), music (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), paranormal powers (1), childishness (1), Ohio (1), Twilight Zone (1)
|
| 1953-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Second Variety |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
future war (2), into-movie (2), Librivox (1), autonomous objects (1), simulacra (1), horror (1), humanoid robots (1), mimicry (1), androids (1)
|
| 1953-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Gloves |
Garnett Radcliffe |
|
|
horror (1), retribution (1), murder (1), secondhand store (1), gloves (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1952-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Iron Hands of Katzaveere |
David Eynon |
|
|
fantasy (1), Nazi occupation (1), Netherlands (1), horror (1), patriotism (1), spirits of the dead (1), redemption (1)
|
| 1952-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
W. S. |
L. P. Hartley |
|
|
author (1), contemporary (1), england (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), fantasy (1), doubles (1)
|
| 1951-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hungry House |
Robert Bloch |
|
|
haunted house (1), contemporary (1), murder (1), horror (1)
|
| 1950-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dark Rosaleen |
Seabury Quinn |
|
|
fairies (1), obsession (1), losing soul (1), painting (1), ireland (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1950-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Illustrated Man |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
murder (1), tattoos (1), carnies (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), witchcraft (1)
|
| 1950-09-23 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Veldt |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
X Minus 1 (2), into-music (1), Dimension X (1), children (1), psychologist (1), lions (1), simulation (1), into-play (1), into-radio (1), horror (1), near future (1), smart house (1), family (1), into-movie (1), into-tv (1), Simulated reality (1), CBC Playhouse (1)
|
| 1948-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Fever Dream |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
contemporary (1), illness (1), horror (1)
|
| 1948-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Cracks of Time |
Dorothy Quick |
|
|
first person point of view (1), floor tiles (1), Pan (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), obsession (1), marriage (1), music (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1948-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lonesome Place |
August Derleth |
|
|
first person point of view (1), spooky place (1), childhood fears (1), manifestation (1), horror (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1948-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Professor's Teddy-Bear |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), juvenile (1), teddy bear (1), time travel (1)
|
| 1947-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Anchor |
Jack Snow |
|
|
love (1), horror (1), ghosts (1), lake (1), moth (1)
|
| 1947-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Cistern |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
contemporary (1), horror (1), realism (1)
|
| 1947-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hog |
William Hope Hodgson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), dreams (1), horror (1), psychic pigs (1), supernatural properties of light (1), outer circle (1)
|
| 1947-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man Upstairs |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
contemporary (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), vampires (1)
|
| 1947-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Next in Line |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
realism (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), mexico (1), mummies (1), Dia de los Muertos (1)
|
| 1946-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Small Assassin |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
infants (1), motherhood (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1945-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Skeleton |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), psychological disorder (1)
|
| 1944-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Jar |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
rural America (1), realism (1), horror (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1943-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Crowd |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
contemporary (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1943-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Scythe |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fantasy (2), horror (1), fate (1)
|
| 1943-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Wind |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
Radio City Playhouse (1), supernatural (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), horror (1)
|
| 1942-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mimic |
Donald A. Wollheim |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), urban (1), tenements (1), mimicry (1), into-movie (1), science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1938-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Black Monk |
G. G. Pendarves |
|
|
ghost (1), first person point of view (1), island (1), monastery (1), treasure (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1937-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Masquerade |
Mearle Prout |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), soul transfer (1), infatuation (1), masquerade (1), damsel in distress (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1937-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Murder Mask |
Edgar Daniel Kramer |
|
|
murder (1), mask (1), magic (1), greed (1), justice (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), sibling rivalry (1), irony (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1937-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man in the Taxi |
Leslie Gordon Barnard |
|
|
contemporary (1), murder (1), guilt (1), taxi (1), ghost (1), fantasy (1), horror (1)
|
| 1937-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ocean Ogre |
Dana Carroll |
|
|
monster (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), shipwreck survivor (1), becalmed (1), sailing ship (1), diary (1), epistolary (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1936-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Dark |
Ronal Kayser |
|
|
Librivox (1), twist ending (1), infidelity (1), chemical industry (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), suicide (1), murder (1), blindness (1)
|
| 1936-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Harbor of Ghosts |
M. J. Bardine |
|
|
grandfather (1), shipwreck (1), ghost ships (1), horror (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), steamships (1)
|
| 1935-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
One Chance |
Ethel Helene Coen |
|
|
ship (1), love (1), horror (1), twist ending (1), quarantine (1), plague (1), new orleans (1), casket (1)
|
| 1935-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Feast in the Abbey |
Robert Bloch |
|
|
satanism (1), contemporary (1), cannibalism (1), first person point of view (1), abbey (1), horror (1), brother (1)
|
| 1935-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sealed Casket |
Richard F. Searight |
|
|
adultery (1), will and testament (1), antique box (1), betrayal (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), horror (1)
|
| 1934-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Bath-Chair |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
horror (1), england (1), brother and sister (1), ghost (1)
|
| 1934-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dance |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
wasp (1), spider (1), murder (1), love triangle (1), retribution (1), ghost (1), horror (1), playing cat and mouse (1)
|
| 1934-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Disinterment of Venus |
Clark Ashton Smith |
|
|
pagan (1), Benedictines (1), idol (1), abbey (1), venus (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1934-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Nightmare Road |
Florence Crow |
|
|
white hair (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Hartz Mountains (1), halloween (1), cross (1), contemporary (1), Satanic creatures (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), hiking (1)
|
| 1934-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sanctuary |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
horror (1), corruption (1), flies (1), satanism (1), secret room (1), first person point of view (1), diary (1), Black Mass (1), Hampshire (1)
|
| 1933-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Shambleau |
C. L. Moore |
|
|
horror (1), gorgon (1), vampire species (1), aliens (1), interplanetary travel (1), science fiction (1), vampirism (1), sexuality (1), addiction (1), mars (1), ray pistol (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1933-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Drive |
Carl Jacobi |
|
|
contemporary (1), fantasy (1), crash (1), coffin (1), truck driver (1), snowstorm (1), race car driver (1), horror (1), weird (1)
|
| 1932-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Archfiend's Fingers |
Kirk Mashburn |
|
|
horror (1), devil (1), drunkenness (1), marijuana (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), new orleans (1), Mardi Gras (1)
|
| 1931-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
His Brother's Keeper |
George Fielding Eliot |
|
|
Iron Maiden (1), murder (1), sibling rivalry (1), horror (1), gothic (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1931-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Finishing Touches |
Renier Wyers |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), image of evil (1), contemporary (1), painting comes to life (1), ironic (1)
|
| 1930-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Burnt Things |
Robert C. Sandison |
|
|
first person point of view (1), train (1), fire (1), retribution (1), contemporary (1), ghosts (1), horror (1), arson (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1930-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
James Lamp |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
retribution (1), murder (1), horror (1), ghost (1), england (1), first person point of view (1), housekeepers (1)
|
| 1930-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Murderer |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
gothic (1), murder (1), cat (1), nephew (1), contemporary (1), cigarette case (1), horror (1), cats (1)
|
| 1930-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Phantom Bus |
W. Elwyn Backus |
|
|
Cincinnati (1), bus (1), recurring dream (1), contemporary (1), death of fiance (1), crash (1), horror (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1928-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Chain |
H. Warner Munn |
|
|
adultery (1), horror (1), revenge (1), torture (1), chain (1), oubliette (1), gothic (1), crumbling castle (1)
|
| 1927-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Home, Sweet Home |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), horror (1), haunted house (1), piano (1), murder (1), storm (1), gardener (1)
|
| 1927-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Church Stove at Raebrudafisk |
G. Appleby Terrill |
|
|
European country (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), horror (1), stove (1), blindness (1), contemporary (1), murder (1), revenge (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1927-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Colour Out of Space |
H. P. Lovecraft |
|
|
Cthulhu Mythos (2), space seeds (2), cosmic horror (2), fantasy (2), horror (2), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), alien invasion (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1927-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Girdle |
Joseph McCord |
|
|
horror (1), belt (1), werewolf (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1926-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
"And No Bird Sings" |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
spring (1), first person point of view (1), dark woods (1), elemental (1), horror (1)
|
| 1926-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mrs. Lunt |
Hugh Walpole |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), author (1), literary critic (1), Cornwall (1), Uxoricide (1), vengeance (1), ghosts (1), horror (1)
|
| 1926-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Swamp Horror |
R. J. Robbins and Will Smith |
|
|
first person point of view (1), swamp (1), horror (1), monsters (1), telegraph (1), missing father (1)
|
| 1926-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Corner Shop |
Cynthia Asquith |
|
|
epistolary (1), first person point of view (1), antique shop (1), ghosts (1), redemption (1), posthumous letter (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), england (1)
|
| 1926-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man Who Was Saved |
B. W. Sliney |
|
|
horror (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), shipwreck (1), contemporary (1), sea monster (1), irony (1), Pacific Ocean (1)
|
| 1926-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Night Wire |
H. F. Arnold |
|
|
mist (1), horror (1), wire services (1), newspapers (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1926-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Step |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
twist ending (1), horror (1), Arabs (1), curse (1), eviction (1), colonialism (1), egypt (1)
|
| 1925-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Tale of an Empty House |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
lameness (1), murder (1), ghost (1), English village (1), first person point of view (1), horror (1)
|
| 1925-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Warning to the Curious |
M. R. James |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), Britain (1)
|
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