The Creepiest Stories Ever Written: 50 Great Classic Horror Stories

Written by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and W. F. Harvey

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

A collection of 50 of the world's great creepy stories. "Creepy" does not necessarily mean ghost or horror stories but rather stories that literally make our flesh creep by shaking our false sense of security and comprehension of the world.

'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole
'The Terrible Old Man' by H. P. Lovecraft
'The Mysterious Card and the Card Unveiled' by Cleveland Moffett
'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard
'Rose Rose' by Barry Pain
'The Well' by W. W. Jacobs
'August Heat' by W. F. Harvey
'Bagnell Terrace' by E. F. Benson
'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
'A Thread of Scarlet' by J. J. Bell
'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain
'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard
'Double Demon' by W. F. Harvey
'Pickman’s Model' by H. P. Lovecraft
'This is All' by Barry Pain
'The Right Hand of Doom' by Robert E. Howard
'The Bus Conductor' by E. F. Benson
'My Adventure in Norfolk' by A. J. Alan
'The Silver Mask' by Hugh Walpole
'The Dream Snake' by Robert E. Howard
'Gavon’s Eve' by E. F. Benson
'Afterward' by Edith Wharton
'His Brother’s Keeper' by W. W. Jacobs
'The Hair' by A. J. Alan
'The Green Light' by Barry Pain
'The Horror Horn' by E. F. Benson
'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe
'Dead of Night' by W. F. Harvey
'Old Fags' by Stacy Aumonier
'The Mark of the Beast' by Rudyard Kipling

Plus 20 more terrifyingly creepy tales.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Aug 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781467699365

H.P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.