Chilling Horror Short Stories cover

Chilling Horror Short Stories

by Laura Bulbeck

Ecdysis / Rebecca J. Allred -- [Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) / Ambrose Bierce -- Beyond the wall / Ambrose Bierce -- Mirror's keeper / Michael Bondies -- The watcher by the threshold / John buchan -- The dying art / Glen Damien Campbell -- The yellow sign / Robert W. Chambers -- Breach / Justin Coates -- The dead smile / F. Marion Crawford -- The screaming scull / F. Marion Crawford -- The child's story / Charles Dickens -- The leather funnel / Arthur Conan Doyle -- In search of a new Wilhelm / John H. Dromey -- Leonora / Elise Forier Edie -- A game of conquest / David A. Elsensohn -- Thing in the bucket / Eric Esser -- The murdered cousin / Sheridan Le Fanu -- The grey woman / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Worth the having / Michael Paul Gonzalez -- Extraneus Invokat / Ed Grabianowski -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The gateway of the monster / William Hope Hodgson -- The challenge from beyond / Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, H.P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, and C.L. Moore -- the man in the Ambry / Gwendolyn Kiste -- Start with color / Bill Kte'pi -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The magnificat of devils / James Lecky -- The Dunwich horror -- H.P. Lovecraft -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The Horla / Guy de Maupassant -- The woman of the wood / A. Merritt -- The Vampire / Jan Neruda -- [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Trial and error / Frank Roger -- The mortal immortal / Mary Shelley -- The body snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dracula's guest / Bram Stoker -- Blessed be the bound / Lucy Taylor -- Dead end / Kristopher Triana -- Justified / DJ Tyrer -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Deep-sixed without a depth gauge / Andrew J. Wilson -- The dew of Heaven, like ashes / William R.D. Wood

Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?