Vote for your favorite Classic Horror Stories

[eyemaker]

Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having onc turned round, walks on
And no more turns his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.


from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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[Janine]

I had to vote for that one because, eye, it is the only one I read. I think I will copy this list so I can read the others eventually. The first one sounds good by Honore de Balzac.

eye, I love your quote from Rhime of the Ancient Mariner - one of my favorite poems of all times. Have you seen the Dore etchings that depict this poem. They were recently posted in the 'Great Literature Illustrated' thread, which I recently started. I hope you can see them and contribute to my thread. The Illustratons by Dore are amazing! The other thread is 'The Magic of Children's Literature' and last night I posted some illustrations of wide-eyed whimsical cats by a certain artist, forget his name now...they will interest you, I believe. They are quite humorous.

[JBI]

Where's The Turn of the Screw!

[waryan]

Yes I was also missing turn of the screw and the always required Poe

[Niamh]

i never read any of them.....

[crystalmoonshin]

Err, there's no "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. I consider it the most terrifying short story I've read.

[Pecksie]

I agree that "The Turn of the Screw" is terrifying --- should be in the list. Also, some of the horror stories by Montague R. James, which are perhaps the creepiest I have ever read - not excluding Poe's!