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Plot. Billy Weaver is a seventeen-year-old youth who has travelled by train from London to Bath to start a new job. Looking for lodgings, he comes across a boarding-house and feels strangely compelled by its sign saying "Bed and Breakfast". Through the window, he notices a parrot in a cage and a sleeping dachshund on the floor, which he finds ...
t. e. Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare. [1] Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which are in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of ...
The Landlady (short story) Laurie (short story) The Lawnmower Man. The Ledge (short story) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Leiningen Versus the Ants. Liberty (franchise) Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie. The Little Green God of Agony.
v. t. e. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, and one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [1][2] The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is ...
The Temple (Lovecraft short story) The Terrible Old Man. The Thing on the Doorstep. Through the Gates of the Silver Key. Till A' the Seas. The Tomb (short story) The Transition of Juan Romero. The Tree on the Hill.
November 1999. " 1408 " is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, released in 1999. [1] In 2002, "1408" was collected in written form in King's Everything's Eventual. [1] In the introduction to the story, King says that "1408" is his version of what he calls the "Ghostly Room at the ...
Ghost stories are commonly examples of ghostlore. Colloquially, the term "ghost story" can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story.
"Lot No. 249" is a Gothic horror short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1892. The story tells of a University of Oxford athlete named Abercrombie Smith who notices a strange series of events surrounding Edward Bellingham, an Egyptology student who owns many ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a mummy.