Also, there are three open calls with stories that I never finished which could make great fits so, hopefully, I’ll have a few more submissions being sent out in the near future! Now, for the standards: Thank you so much to everyone who has become a Patreon for Horror Tree. We ...
Short StoriesWant to get new stories before everyone else? Join the mailing list! Or “Follow” the blog (bottom-right) to get notified as they’re posted here.Togas, Daggers, and MagicA few short stories involving Felix, mostly from his past prior to Murder In Absentia. ...
Captives of Desire includes stories drawn from each phase of these invasions, women who in one way or another found themselves caught up by men of conquering armies, women who met such invaders with courage, fear, and not a small amount of pleasure. One woman, one man, the blood of battl...
. Murder, then, has been committed by some third party; and the voices of this third party were those heard in contention. Let me now advert--not to the whole testimony respecting these voices--but to what was _peculiar_ in that testimony. Did you observe any thing peculiar about it?
One of the most famous Edgar Allen Poe short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is narrated by a man who describes in detail why he was driven to commit murder and seeks to justify the cause, insisting it was not for hatred or greed. Eve...
Most people recognize Poe by his famous poem,"The Raven". Others may have read one of his more popular dark and creepy tales like,"The Fall of the House of Usher"or"The Tell-tale Heart". Poe wrote quite a few gothic stories aboutmurder,revenge,torture,the plague,being buried alive, an...
His first collection, Night Shift, has several of his most famous short stories, including two of the stories on this page, "Graveyard Shift" and "Strawberry Spring". "Cain Rose Up" Garrish enters his dorm. His classmate, the Beaver, complains about the difficult test they just had. He ...
Tim has published over 80 short stories, in places as diverse as Woman’s World, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, as well as anthologies such as The Haunted Hour, Murder Most Crafty, and the MWA anthology A Hot and Sultry Night For Crime. A Touch of Ro
O. Henry, American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humor, grim or ironic, and often had surprise