Source: http://flavorwire.com/483530/50-of-the-scariest-short-stories-of-all-time/view-all
I have read those in BOLD. Links are to the short stories.
Read: 17/50 (34%)
- “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” Harlan Ellison
- “The Veldt,” Ray Bradbury
- “The Infamous Bengal Ming,” Rajesh Parameswaran
- “Two Houses,” Kelly Link
- “Snow, Glass, Apples,” Neil Gaiman
- ”The Other Place,” Mary Gaitskill
- “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” Joyce Carol Oates
- “The Signal-Man,” Charles Dickens
- “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “In the Penal Colony,” Franz Kafka
- “The Monkey’s Paw,” W.W. Jacobs
- ”Flowers for Algernon,” Daniel Keyes
- “The Tell Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe
- “The Road Virus Heads North,” Stephen King
- “Terra Incognita,” Vladimir Nabokov
- “Casting the Runes,” M.R. James
- “The Dunwich Horror,” H.P. Lovecraft
- “Out of Skin,” Emily Carroll
- “Dress of White Silk,” Richard Matheson
- ”The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson
- “The Screaming Skull,” F. Marion Crawford
- “The Open Window,” Saki
- “The Willows,” Algernon Blackwood
- “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor
- “Green Tea,” Sheridan Le Fanu
- “The Green Ribbon,” Alvin Schwartz
- “The Bloody Chamber,” Angela Carter
- “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler
- “Dapplegrim,” Brian Evenson
- “The Midnight Meat Train,” Clive Barker
- “Miriam,” Truman Capote
- “Dial Tone,” Benjamin Percy
- “Le Horla” by Guy de Maupassant
- “Caterpillars,” E.F. Benson
- “The Demon Lover,” Elizabeth Bowen
- “The Echo of Neighborly Bones,” Daniel Woodrell
- “Black Man with a Horn,” T.E.D. Klein
- “Details,” China Miéville
- “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner
- “The Landlady,” Roald Dahl
- “The Boarded Window,” Ambrose Bierce
- “The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis,” Karen Russell
- “Lukundoo,” Edward Lucas White
- “Pigeons from Hell,” Robert E. Howard
- “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” Conrad Aiken
- “Sticks,” Karl Edward Wagner
- “Don’t Look Now,” Daphne du Maurier
- “The Babysitter,” Robert Coover
- “He’ll Come Knocking at Your Door,” Robert R. McCammon
