CHRISTMAS READING LIST VIII (2020)

Night has fallen. The tree is trimmed and glimmering its vibrant lights. You’ve warmed yourself a healthy dose of mulled wine as you sit before the warmth of the crackling fireplace. The scene is set. Now, it’s time for the telling of some eerie, festive ghost stories once again. (Listed in publication order) The Stories: […]

MORE GUY DE MAUPASSANT MACABRE TALES

A few years back I took a look at six short horror stories by legendary French author Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1892). That post is available by clicking this link: https://horrordelve.com/2014/06/05/guy-de-maupassant/ . Since it’s been awhile, I decided it was high time to return to more works by him. The Stories: 1. “The Hand” […]

HALLOWEEN SUGGESTED READING LIST VIII (2020)

The Halloween tradition continues! What follows is Horror Delve’s Eighth Annual Suggested Reading List for Halloween. Not all of these stories (listed by their publication date) take place on Halloween, but each evokes the proper feel for the season. Happy Reading and Happy Halloween! The List: 1. “Apparition” or “A Ghost” by Guy de Maupassant […]

RAMSEY CAMPBELL SHORT STORIES LIST VII

I love reading anything by Ramsey Campbell – be it in long form or short – as a result his work gets covered here a lot. This being the case, I’ve run out of unique titles for the articles where I recount a bunch of his short stories, so from here on I’ll just be […]

TWO MORE EXCELLENT, FREE AUDIO HORROR STORIES

Every now and then I like to share links to some of my favorite episodes of the podcasts to which I regularly listen. Here are a couple which dropped this past week which I felt were outstanding. Pseudopod #719: “Cordona’s Skull by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1950): This classic story is about a down-on-his-luck stage magician […]

BLACK INFINITY #6: INSIDIOUS INSECTS

Black Infinity issue #6 is now out and available for purchase under $10. This one is especially exciting for me because I make two appearances in it. There’s a new installment of my retro-movie review column Matt Cowan’s Threat Watch – this one focusing on films involving insects or spiders or other such scuttling things, […]

BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE BY RALPH ADAMS CRAM

I recently read a post by fellow horror blogger Jay Rothermel ( https://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/search?q=Ralph+Adams+cram ) where he looked at a couple stories by Ralph Adams Cram, and it got me thinking about my own love of Cram’s stories. Several years back I posted about the stories Cram included in his collection Black Spirits and White back […]

FOUR FREE AUDIO HORROR STORIES

I listen to a lot of podcasts – several of them regularly provide readings of excellent horror stories. Periodically, I like to post links to some of my favorite episodes. Each of the stories listed below are free, professionally produced, and are ones I particularly loved. 1. “Dream House” by Orrin Grey (2016) – Read […]

TEN STRANGE ROBERT AICKMAN TALES

Robert Aickman was a British writer, editor and conservationist born in 1914. He described his own stories as ‘Strange Tales’ and they display a distinctive style all his own. He also edited the first eight volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. In 1979 he won the World Fantasy Award for his short […]

SIXTEEN EERIE TALES BY STEVE RASNIC TEM

Steve Rasnic Tem is an award winning American, speculative fiction writer of novels and more than 430 short stories. The novella The Man On The Ceiling, which he cowrote with his late wife Melanie, won the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild awards in 2001. Steve has won many awards for his solo […]