Greetings (and a question)

[hyperdex]

Hi All,

I am a long time lurker and thought I would introduce myself.

I've been a horror fan for most of my life. It started with a cheap paperback copy of "Pet Sematary" in the early 80s and has continued throughout most of my life. As I child I had been terrified of horror films, and I picked up the book thinking that it would be a good way to confront those fears, as there was no way that a mere book could scare me. Oh how wrong I was! In any case a lifetime fascination was born.

For the past 20 years I've been trying to collect the 200 books mentioned in the 'Horror: 100 Best Books' and 'Horror: Another 100 Books'. I've been able to track them all down except for Lovecraft's 'The Outsider and Others' and Higham's 'Tales of Terror'. This was a lot more challenging (and more fun) before the advent of the internet and sites like amazon and abebooks. Through these lists I have been exposed to a wide variety of authors that I would not otherwise have necessarily come across, so for that alone I find these lists very useful. (Lists also happen to appeal very much to an OCD side of my personality, but enough about that...)

Now for a question... I was given an e-Reader for Christmas and really have enjoyed it thus far. I downloaded a bunch of books from Project Gutenberg and have been very happy with this expansion of my library. I was wondering if the members here had any suggestions for good old-fashioned ghost and/or horror stories that may be available on this site (or on other free sites)?

Here's what I've found so far:

J. Sheridan Le Fanu has a number of collections here, which I've downloaded.

M.R. James' collections are there.

F. Marion Crawford has a collection or two there.

I have also already collected and read any of the books mentioned in the two '100 Horror Books' books, so I am looking for other authors who may be a little more obscure who are not necessarily already collected in these books.

Best,

Dave Blackston

[Dr Terror]

There was a site called Horror Masters, which has now gone. A couple of weeks ago I found an archive of it, but even that's disappeared now.

[dem bones]

You might like to browse the library at R. J. Warren's lovely The Amalgamated Brotherhood Of Spooks. Also Short, Scary Ghost Stories.

[hyperdex]

Thanks for the tips! The amalgamated brotherhood site looks to be particularly useful as it contains many authors who I am not familiar with!

There is a wealth of spooky stories out there -- one just needs to know where to look.

[Shrink Proof]

Greetings!

In a similar vein, you might like to look at Gaslight - gaslight.mtroyal.ca/. Gaslight is a Canadian site of some antiquity (in internet terms), set up as an old-style discussion list, specialising in texts from 1800-1919. Click on the "Chronological List of Texts" on the left hand side of the home page. Although it's of fairly unsophisticated construction, it works well enough.

[dem bones]

Another resource for vintage supernatural and macabre fiction: the Horror Stories section of the Havaris website.