Arcane Tales of Horror

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

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 →

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

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 →