Greetings, ghosts and goblins.
Here is where you’ll find a great many stories of the strange and mysterious, penned by authors from the deepest, darkest corners of history. Some tales may already be quite familiar to you, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s seminal short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” while others may provide you with any number of fresh frights. We hope you find some to your liking—though, as you’ve already descended this far into our literary catacombs, we might safely presume your affinity for the macabre is not so dissimilar to our own.
As with all our historical archives, we must ask that you exercise caution when engaging with these tomes from eras past; some of the writings gathered here may contain unpleasant or offensive depictions of race, sex, gender, nationality, ethnicity, and mental illness, among other sensitive topics. Please understand that these do not reflect the perspectives of The Raven Post or its staff.
Thank you for joining us today and showing interest in our little project. Take your time perusing our carefully curated shelves—but, please, do try not to get lost.

Miscellaneous Short Stories
The Legend of Sleep Hollow — Washington Irving (1820)
The Minister’s Black Veil — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1836)
The Lifted Veil — George Eliot (1859)
Monsieur Maurice — Amelia B. Edwards (1873)
A Mysterious Case — Anna Katharine Green (1878)
The Shadow in the Corner — M.E. Braddon (1879)
The Old House in Vauxhall Walk — Charlotte Riddell (1880)
The Open Door — Charlotte Riddell (1882)
A Ghost — Guy De Maupassant (1883)
The Last of Squire Ennsimore — Charlotte Riddell (1888)
A Wicked Voice — Vernon Lee (1890)
Cecilia de Noël — Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1891)
The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
By the Waters of Paradise — Francis Marion Crawford (1894)
Her Letters — Kate Chopin (1895)
The Corpus Delicti — Melville D. Post (1896)
The Messenger — Robert W. Chambers (1897)
The Three Sisters — W.W. Jacobs (c. 1900s)
In the Fog — Richard Harding Davis (1901)
Rose Rose — Barry Pain (1901)
The Master of Mystery — Jack London (1902)
The Monkey’s Paw — W.W. Jacobs (1902)
The Shadows on the Wall — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1903)
A Wedding Chest — Vernon Lee (1904)
The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hôïchi — Lafcadio Hearn (1904)
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” — M.R. James (1904)
The Problem of Cell 13 — Jacques Futrelle (1905)
The Mass of Shadows — Anatole France (1908)
The Shell of Sense — Olivia Howard Dunbar (1908)
The Haunted Orchard — Richard Le Gallienne (1912)
How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles — Lord Dunsany (1912)
The Thing in the Hall — E.F. Benson (1912)
Bone to His Bone — E.G. Swain (1912)
The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka (1915)
The Bowmen — Arthur Machen (1915)
What the Professor Saw — S. Mukerji (1917)
At the Gate — Myla Jo Closser (1917)
Lazarus — Leonid Andreyev (1918)
The Beast with Five Fingers — W.F. Harvey (1919)
The Victim — May Sinclair (1922)
