Arcane Tales of Horror

The Marble Hands, by Bernard Capes

An Unfinished Race, by Ambrose Bierce: . . . .

An Unfinished Race, by Ambrose Bierce

A Ghoul’s Accountant, by Stephen Crane. . . . .

A Ghoul’s Accountant

The Man-Eating Tree, written by Phil Robinson in 1881 Read by Brian Schell . . . . . .

The Man-Eating Tree, by Phil Robinson

The Dead Alive, or the Murdering Mendicant of Orleans, by Edward Lloyd Download the PDF: http://www.arcanetales.com/audio/Dead Alive.pdf

The Dead Alive, by Edward Lloyd

The Thing at Ghent, by Honore de Balzac Download the PDF: http://www.arcanetales.com/audio/Thing at Ghent.pdf

The Thing at Ghent, by Honore de Balzac

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone, makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not … Continue reading Dagon, by H. P. Lovecraft →

Dagon, by H. P. Lovecraft

The Strange Orchid By H.G. Wells The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your good luck, as your taste may incline. The plant may be moribund or … Continue reading The Strange Orchid, by H. G. Wells →

The Strange Orchid, by H. G. Wells

The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima By A.B. Mitford, Lord Redesdale

The Vampire Cat of Nabeshima, by A.B. Mitford

The Masque of the Red Death By Edgar Allen Poe THE “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at … Continue reading The Masque of the Red Death, By Edgar Allen Poe →

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