Explanation is the Death of Horror

The Small Hand (2010) by Susan Hill: Hill's much-earlier The Woman in Black is a fine tribute to the ghost stories of the past. This...

By the Light of My Skull (2018) by Ramsey Campbell, containing the following stories: The Words Between • (2016) : An homage to The...

Night of the Demon (aka Curse of the Demon ) (1957): adapted by Charles Bennett, Hal E. Chester, and Cy Endfield, from the short story ...

Dark Matter (2010) by Michelle Paver: It's 1937 and a quintet of Oxfordians has received funding to create a research station above t...

The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteriess of Kyle Murchison Booth (2007/ 2nd edition 2011) by Sarah Monette; containing the following st...

Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors (2016) by Adam L.G. Nevill: containing the following stories: Where Angels Come In (2005): T...

Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper : Volume 1  (2013) by Basil Copper, edited by Stephen Jones. Once...

The World's Greatest Horror Stories (a.k.a. H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror ): edited by Stephen Jones and Dave Carson (1993/2004) ...

Canon Alberic's Scrap-book and other stories by M.R. James, containing the following stories: "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book"...

Madame Crowl's Ghost : written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited and introduced by M.R. James (Original edition 1923; this edition 2006...

The Shrine : written by Jon Knautz, Brendan Moore, and Trevor Matthews; directed by Jon Knautz; starring Aaron Ashmore (Marcus), Cindy Samps...

Adrian Ross The Hole of the Pit by Adrian Ross (1914; reprinted in Uncanny Banquet , 1992): "Hearken to me, ye that follow after...

Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell (1991) containing "The Guide" (1989) "Next Time You'll Know Me" (1988) "S...

Ghosts and Grisly Things (1998)   by Ramsey Campbell: A collection of excellent short stories from the 1970's, 80's and 90's b...