HALLOWEEN READING LIST V (2017)

This will be the fifth consecutive year that I’ve assembled a list of stories I feel capture the proper mood for Halloween. Below you’ll find links to each previous year’s list. I must say, I think this year’s may be the strongest to date. Enjoy and Happy Halloween! 2013 – https://horrordelve.com/2013/10/30/ten-scary-short-stories-for-halloween/ 2014 – https://horrordelve.com/2014/10/15/horror-delves-second-annual-halloween-reading-list/ 2015 […]

Seven Macabre Tales By W.W. Jacobs

William Wymark Jacobs was born in London, England in 1863. He worked at The Post Office Savings Bank for many years while also writing a number of his stories. Much of his output was of the humorous variety, but he penned some chilling horror tales as well. Today he’s best remembered for the iconic horror […]

THE EERIE TALES OF H.G. WELLS

Born in 1866, H.G. Wells would grow up to become a true icon of science fiction due in large part to his classic novels The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and War of the Worlds (1898). He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times […]

THE SCARIEST HAUNTED HOUSE STORY POLL

Haunted house stories are my favorite, so I read them as often as I’m able. With this in mind, I was wondering which ones you would consider to be the scariest of all time. For the purposes of this poll, I’d like to stick to short stories (no novels). The Shining by Stephen King or […]

THE GHOST STORIES OF HENRY JAMES

Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York City but spent much of his childhood traveling through Europe with his parents. As an adult he’d go on to be counted among the giants of literary history. His novella, The Turn of the Screw, is still recognized as one of the greatest ghost stories ever written. […]

RUDYARD KIPLING MACABRE TALES

Born in Bombay, British India in 1865, Joseph Rudyard Kipling led a very successful life as a writer. He was the first English language author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, an award for which he remains the youngest recipient ever. He’s best remembered for the various screen adaptations of his works […]

GRIMSCRIBE BY THOMAS LIGOTTI REVIEW

Although I’d heard of Thomas Ligotti before, I never read much by him. I recently was gifted this collection from a friend (thanks again to David T. Wilbanks). I’d planned to only read a handful of the stories but got so hooked I ended up finishing all of them. Born in 1953, Thomas Ligotti is […]

JULIUS LONG

Julius Long was a lawyer born in Ohio in 1907 who penned a handful of horror and detective tales before his death in 1955. Some of his stories were published in Weird Tales Magazine during the 1930’s. His most popular offering seems to have been “The Pale Man” (1934) which has been regularly reprinted in […]

UNEARTHED TREASURES 7: HALF PRICE BOOKS FINDS

On my most recent Half Price Bookstore excursion, I managed to come away with some really nice finds. I’m perpetually on the lookout for short story anthologies and collections to mine for content here at Horror Delve and each of these look well-suited for the task. 1. BY BIZARRE HANDS (1991) by Joe R. […]

TALES OF JOHN THE BALLADEER

John the Balladeer, also referred to as Silver John, was the creation of author Manly Wade Wellman. John travels the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina singing songs and dealing with all varieties of supernatural threats over the course of several novels and short stories. The atmosphere of these tales is properly evoked through mimicry of […]