Graveyard Tales
Tales to be told in a graveyard. Creepy stories, ghostly lore, and eerie tales that will make you shudder. Short stories with just the right touch of the strange. So sit down on a gravestone and prepare to be frightened.
The Return by Minna Irving
Who would know you if you came back?
The Album by Amelia Reynolds Long
You wouldn't go past the red ribbon bookmark, or would you?
The Last Drive by Carl Jacobi
What is worse than being stranded in a blizzard? Being stranded with a corpse!
The Red-Haired Girl by S. Baring-Gould
If there is no one else in the house, who is always watching from the shadows?
The House of Shadows by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Can love ever be lost to death?
The Listeners by Walter de la Mare
Who will answer the Traveler's knock?
Dust by Edna Goit Brintnall
Will Nellie finally get her well-deserved rest?
The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller
Are children peculiarly acute to the supernatural?
The Dangerous Scarecrow by Carl Jacobi
Can two imaginative children bring a scarecrow to life?
Nice Old House by Dona Tolson
Alisa knows there is something wrong with the nice old house, but what is it?
The Lilac Bush by August W. Derleth
Who is the man the children see at the lilac bush?
The Teak-Wood Shrine by Farnsworth Wright
What is the mystery of the teak-wood shrine?
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre and helped found the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK). Derleth was also a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography. Notably, he created the fictional detective Solar Pons, a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
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