Whitechapel - Best Horror Short Stories 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=330992#Comment_330992 2012-05-03T14:23:16-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 imaginarypeople http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7661 what do you think are the best horror short stories? "In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker "each thing i show you is a piece of my death" by Gemma Files & Stephen J ...
"In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker

"each thing i show you is a piece of my death" by Gemma Files & Stephen J Barringer

"The Suicide Artist" by Scott Edelman

are a few of my favorites, though i am sure there are more that i am not thinking of.]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=330994#Comment_330994 2012-05-03T15:00:41-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Steve Toase http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253 Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by M.R.James and The Monkey's Paw by W.W.Jacobs "In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker is fantastic too and
The Monkey's Paw by W.W.Jacobs

"In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker is fantastic too]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=330996#Comment_330996 2012-05-03T15:06:55-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155 I really liked "Rawhead Rex" by Barker. "Not from Around Here" by David J. Schow got in under my skin also. Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331015#Comment_331015 2012-05-03T21:29:22-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 HEY APATHY! http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9019 @Imaginary I've been listening to a lot of old scary stories lately because they are free haunting the public domain and help keep me thoroughly disturbed while I draw. You might enjoy this while you ... The Great God Pan and there is an endless supplly of them here also Lots of ghost stories]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331018#Comment_331018 2012-05-03T22:22:34-07:00 2012-05-03T22:22:57-07:00 imaginarypeople http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7661 @hey apathy - i always thought listening to books/stories on tape was cheating, but i think i would like listening while i draw. gonna try that sometime soon. Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331034#Comment_331034 2012-05-04T04:57:52-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334 If you fancy listening to some spooky stories, check out Christopher Lee's Fireside Tales on YouTube. They used to get played on the radio on the nights between Christmas and New.Years, which always ... Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331047#Comment_331047 2012-05-04T09:00:45-07:00 2012-05-04T09:02:44-07:00 J.Brennan http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1028 Always thought Stephen King's horror was more effective in his short stories. "I Am the Doorway" and "Children of the Corn" both got to me when I first read them back in high ...
Seconding "Rawhead Rex".

of newer stuff, I've enjoyed Laird Barron's stuff, particularly "Mysterium Tremendum" (which may be closer to a novella)

And can't forget the old gent of Providence. The narrator is a fellow named Wayne June, found a bunch of Lovecraft collections read by him, love the guy's voice.

Have The Call of Cthulhu in its entirety:
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@J. Brennan - nice choice I've listened to that one several times over and am about to do it again...]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331092#Comment_331092 2012-05-04T15:47:04-07:00 2012-05-04T15:47:20-07:00 imaginarypeople http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7661 heres a story i read before but i just found it reprinted online http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/12/the-neglected-garden/ i highly recommend giving it a read through if you have the time. http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/12/the-neglected-garden/
i highly recommend giving it a read through if you have the time.]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331123#Comment_331123 2012-05-05T03:07:49-07:00 2012-05-07T05:32:40-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949 @imaginarypeople: Weird, before I'd even opened this thread, I was thinking "In the Hills, the Cities". I've not read it for years, and sometimes I think it was a fevered nightmare, it's ...
Yeah, "The Monkey's Paw" is a classic. They did an adaption of it for children's TV, which I saw when I was about eight-years-old.

@all: Thanks for all the audio stuff. Gives me something to sweat to when I can't sleep.]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331138#Comment_331138 2012-05-05T07:37:40-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 jamiegambell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9546 Probably coloured by my love of The Thing, but J. W. Campbell jr's Who Goes There is a pretty great ready. Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331209#Comment_331209 2012-05-06T06:54:44-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Fauxhammer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27 For my money it's "Herbert West - Reanimator". It's one of the scariest zombie stories I know. Quick, brutal, and visceral. Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331224#Comment_331224 2012-05-06T14:23:40-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 imaginarypeople http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7661 @flecky sometimes I think it was a fevered nightmare, it's just so absurd and fantastic those are my favorite kind of horror stories, they are almost kafkaesque. @faux- i need to read reanimator. ...
sometimes I think it was a fevered nightmare, it's just so absurd and fantastic

those are my favorite kind of horror stories, they are almost kafkaesque.
@faux- i need to read reanimator. i love a good zombie story.]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331241#Comment_331241 2012-05-06T21:05:30-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Purple Wyrm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6726 M.R.James has already been mentioned, but there are several of his stories that badly creeped me out badly when I first read them. The description of the ghost in The Haunted Dolls House gave me a ... The Haunted Dolls House gave me a few bad night's sleep, as did the entire atmosphere of Canon Alberic's Scrapbook.

R. Chetwynd-Hayes also wrote some damned creepy stuff]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331276#Comment_331276 2012-05-07T05:45:07-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949 @imaginarypeople: I know what you mean, "The Trial" and "The Castle" made a big impression on me. "Metamorphosis" is relatively short (if i remember right), and waking ... Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331281#Comment_331281 2012-05-07T06:23:48-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Tim Murr http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1164 I loved Barker's The Cabal and King's The Mist and while I didn't find Herbert West, Reanimator to be scary, it gets a nod from me for being so good and inspiring three of my favorite movies. Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331341#Comment_331341 2012-05-07T20:47:58-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155 I really enjoyed "1408" by King. Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331363#Comment_331363 2012-05-08T05:35:45-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Vornaskotti http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6665 I'll third or fourth "In the Hills, the Cities" - I was just thinking it like last week. God, I read so much short horror fiction in the 90's, how come I can't remember the names of the ...
God, I read so much short horror fiction in the 90's, how come I can't remember the names of the stories. I was a big fan of Barker's short stories, never really got into his novels.

One of the stories that really managed to get under my skin is available only in Finnish, unfortunately: Kari Nenonen's "Suku on pahin". It's a story of a Christmas trip of two 80's yuppies to the woman's parents' house in rural Finland. It managed to hit so many buttons of stuff I was scared of as a kid in the countryside, that I amusingly had a bit of trouble sleeping after reading it as the last thing in the night - and I was 25 years old then :)]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331378#Comment_331378 2012-05-08T10:37:32-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Ashflex http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7337 I've been enjoying Barker's shorts, from his Books of Blood. I also highly recommend John Connolly's collection of shorts, 'Nocturnes', I especially enjoyed his 'The Cancer Cowboy Rides'. Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331542#Comment_331542 2012-05-11T01:22:53-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Frank http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1074 I quite enjoyed Joe Hills' 20th Century ghosts, and some of his Dad's older stuff from Dreamscapes, Skeleton Crew and Past Midnight And like Ashflex I also highly recommend John Connolly's ...
And like Ashflex I also highly recommend John Connolly's "Nocturnes"; a good collection of spooky stuff ... a sampling you can peruse here]]> Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331556#Comment_331556 2012-05-11T08:42:49-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1299 @Ashflex, thanks for turning me onto The Cancer Cowboy Rides Again! Having a lot of awful fun reading it. Best Horror Short Stories http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10648&Focus=331582#Comment_331582 2012-05-11T13:44:48-07:00 2013-05-22T21:41:04-07:00 Ashflex http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7337 @Alan Tyson, glad your enjoying it. I met him a few years back at a signing, very nice fella!