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Get your scares on without spending a dime… or leaving your chair.

Here are links to many public domain horror stories available online, and you can read them at your computer, or download them to a mobile device.  For
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eapoe.jpgProject Gutenberg is a library of 17,000 free ebooks whose copyrights have expired. There’s a searchable database of .txt and html files, and no signup or login required.  You aren’t going to find any contemporary horror novels (don’t expect to find a Stephen King, for example) but many of the classics are there.

Here’s a sampling of my favorites…

The Raven and THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, Volume 2, which includes The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Tell-Tale Heart, among others.

headlesshorsemn.jpgThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley

DRACULA by Bram Stoker

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

FAMOUS MODERN GHOST STORIES by various authors (including A. Blackwood, E. A. Poe, A. Bierce, G. de Maupassant)

henry_james1.jpgThe Wendigo and FOUR WEIRD TALES by Algernon Blackwood

The Vampyre by John Polidori

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

And another huge archive of classic horror stories here (including H.P. Lovecraft, who I couldn’t find at Gutenberg).

Check out my next post (at 4pm CDT) for information on horror movies you can see on your computer for free.  That’s right.  FREE.

Comment to either post and you’ll get a chance to win a signed copy from my backlist.

Signed,
Meljean Brook
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