What Is Your Favourite Short Horror Story?

[Truegho]

What is your favourite short horror story?

I used to love the Pan Book of Horror Stories, which I read so avidly back in the seventies. There were some real little gems in there!

I love Stephen King's The Boogey Man too.

[iScreamUscreamWeAllScream]

I like the scary stories to read in the dark series, but they aren't really scary. Just fun to read.

[Nosferatu]

Robert Bloch's stories are just delightful! I've read one of his short story collection called "Tales of terror" or "Weird Tales". I can't exactly remember the original title because I had it in french. Read it if you can!

[Truegho]

Yes, Robert Bloch's stories ARE great!

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[Mr. White]

Clive Barker- In The Flesh

[mr.sasquatch]

The Monkey's Paw. Yeah, I'm old-school.

[Double L]

Monkeys Paw, we read that at School, a classic.

I liked the Richard Laymon Anthology Dreadful tales, I also liked Trucks & The Langoliers by Steven King.

[vampirexpsycho]

R.L. Stine's Fear Street horror book series.

[Cyclops]

Edgar Alan Poe's Pit and the Pendulum is one of my faves

[Headless Horseman]

Poe's Tale Tale Heart. I Love the Classics.

[Freddy's Fake Head]

The Crate, scariest short story ever. I can remember refusing to even go near closed boxes for awhile after my dad read the comic to me when I was little.

[Phantom Queen]

I like:
The Colour out of Space - by Lovecraft
The Jaunt - Stephen King (In the "Nightshift" Series - great collection)
Fruiting Bodies - By Brian Lumley
The October Game - by Bradbury

[silverbullet83]

Not sure if it really qualifies as a horror story, but The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is one of my favorite short stories, kinda brutal :-)

[Witchfinder1]

Poe's " Buried Alive "
Stephen King's " The Man who Loved Flowers"
and " Children of the Corn"

[Pumpboy]

The Cask of Amontillado by Poe
and
The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner

and hundreds more. I read many more horror anthologies than I do novels.

[Soulshaker]

I like the scary stories to read in the dark series, but they aren't really scary. Just fun to read.

Wow did those ever scare me when I was in middle school! Especially traumatic for me were (1) the one where spiders burst from a boil in a girl's face; (2) the one where a boy is out with his trowel one day and finds a big, meaty toe sticking out of the soil. He cuts it off, takes it home, and eats it. That night the owner of the toe comes back for it...

I'm with Headless Horseman on my favorite short story being The Tell-Tale Heart. There's a great animated version of it on the special features of Hellboy.

Phantom Queen, what story is The Colour of Space? I can't remember it. My favorite Lovecraft story is called "The Picture in the Old House." Wow. I read it out loud to one of my friends one time, and even though he was twenty-something at the time, he was kind of creeped out about having to ride his bike home in the rain.

[Cyclops]

I'd have to say Edgar Alan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. An absolute chiller nothing like the movie.

[Lightf00t]

What is your favourite short horror story?

I used to love the Pan Book of Horror Stories, which I read so avidly back in the seventies. There were some real little gems in there!

I love Stephen King's The Boogey Man too.


You know I seem to remember the Pan books! Weren't they awesome?! Can't actually remember any from Pan to name, so I'd have to go for one from Clive Barker's Books of Blood, say . . . . The Yattering & Jack! Great stuff.

[Cyclops]

I hear The Yattering and Jack is to be filmed. Never read any Barker so i have no idea what its like.

[Lightf00t]

Trust me, you've not read anything like The Books Of Blood before - so original and warped!

[Cyclops]

Trust me, you've not read anything like The Books Of Blood before - so original and warped!

Ha,we actually had a copy of that,well it was my other half's and she didn't like it. We gave it away to someone on bookmooch.com

[Lightf00t]

Ha,we actually had a copy of that,well it was my other half's and she didn't like it. We gave it away to someone on bookmooch.com

Did you read any of them?

Rawhead Rex was a good one. There's a film of it which I've yet to see; but I don't know if it's any good.

[grigorii]

midnight meat train was good in clive barkers books of blood but other than that it got kinda stephen kingish (stephen king suuucks) but there making a midnight meat train movie.

[Cyclops]

Did you read any of them?

Rawhead Rex was a good one. There's a film of it which I've yet to see; but I don't know if it's any good.

Na that kind of stuff doesn't interest me and every Barker book i've tried to read has been a chore.

[Cyclops]

it got kinda stephen kingish (stephen king suuucks) .

Have you read his Misery? Truly one of THE best things in horror!