The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins GilmanPrescribed total rest in a nursery with barred windows, a young wife begins to study the wallpaper.
28 min · Unsettling
The story shelf
Follow your curiosity.
A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan PoeA connoisseur leads his insulter down into the family catacombs to settle a score over a rare sherry.
11 min · Foreboding
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan PoeA prince walls his court inside a castellated abbey to outparty a plague — through seven colored rooms.
11 min · Foreboding
Transformation
Mary ShelleyExiled by his own pride, a reckless nobleman accepts a stranger's miraculous bargain.
32 min · Chilling
Asleep in Armageddon
Ray BradburyStranded on a seemingly hospitable planetoid, a spaceman discovers that the only danger comes when he tries to sleep.
20 min · Chilling
Pillar of Fire
Ray BradburyIn a future that has abolished fear, graveyards, and the literature of horror, the last man from the dead rises to make the world afraid again.
62 min · Eerie
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington IrvingA gangly schoolmaster courts a farmer’s daughter in a drowsy Hudson Valley town haunted by a headless horseman.
55 min · Eerie
7 stories