The Oddcast: Tales of the Occult, Weird, and Arcane

Written in 1981/2 and published in 1983 in an undisclosed Japanese periodical. Later added to his short story collection... Read more

A modern folktale which takes place in a parallel-universe New York City; mysterious lunar women are hypnotized by the m... Read more

Originally "Las ruinas circulares". First published in the literary journal Sur in December 1940. It was first published... Read more

First written around March 1921, the story was first published in the June 1926 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.S... Read more

First published in Crypt of Cthulhu in 1988. A man visits a nameless town and questions his existence as reality transfo... Read more

Originally published in the anthology "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact" (June, 1977) the novelette went on to win th... Read more

The story was first published in May 1842 in Graham's Magazine and has since been adapted in many different forms, inclu... Read more

First published in the Christmas number of The Graphic in 1897. It is credited with the creation of the subgenre depicti... Read more

First published in Tennyson's first solo collection, "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical" (1830) when he was around 20 years old. On... Read more

First published in the magazine Sur in 1943. Failed playwrite Jaromir Hladik is captured during the Nazi occupation of P... Read more

Originally published in the March 2001 edition of Esquire magazine. It was the basis for the film Memento directed by Ch... Read more

Originally published by Esquire in 1954. Summary: While at dock, a passenger of a banana boat encounters a mad, weary tr... Read more

Summary: In the 1940s, Russian scientists kept 5 men awake for 15 straight days. The results were horrifying. Background... Read more

Summary: Peyton Farquhar, a plantation owner in his mid-thirties, is being prepared for execution by hanging from an Ala... Read more

Summary: the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred e... Read more