Lucid Nightmares - Horror Stories Collection

An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House

-The story explores the supposed haunting of a house under the occupation of an invalid married couple, their children, and their servants.

Dracula's Guest

-An Englishman visits Munich and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not be late back, leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an "unholy" village, only to find a tall and thin stranger at the crest of a hill.

Green Tea

-Based on the psychological complexities of human mind, the work is pervaded by a mysterious aura. A drink opens the inner eye of the protagonist. What follows is a mind-boggling tale of eeriness and reality.

In The Dark

-Two best friends are bedevilled by a third friend, who haunts them from grade school to adulthood. He seems to intuit things he can't know, and always tells the truth.

The Black Stone

-"And the thought recurs to me--if such a monstrous entity as the Master of the Monolith somehow survived its own unspeakably distant epoch so long--what nameless shapes may even now lurk in the dark places of the world?"

The Call of Cthulhu

-While sorting the affairs of his deceased Uncle, a man accidentally stumbles upon a series of dark secrets connected to an ancient horror waiting to be freed.

The Devil in the Belfry

-The quiet town is devastated by the arrival of a devilish figure playing a big fiddle who comes straight down from a hill, goes into the belltower.

The Dualitists

-Adolescent troublemakers Harry Merford and Tommy Stanton take the ancient rite of male bonding to a macabre level after receiving a set of matching knives for Christmas.

The Dunwich Horror

-In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, a most unusual child is born.

The Familiar

-A sea captain, living in Dublin, is stalked by "The Watcher", a strange dwarf who resembles a person from his past.

The Haunter of the Dark

-The Church of Starry Wisdom who uses an ancient artifact to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space...

The Heads of Apex

-Far under the sea-floor Solino's submarine carries two American soldiers of fortune to startling adventure among the Vampire Heads of Apex.

The Red Hand

-The story centers around a young girl's diary, relating her encounters with the deadly inhabitants of an alternate world.

The Signal Man

-A lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger and experiences a series of supernatural events.

The Tell-Tale Heart

-Told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed.

The Vampire Maid

-Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition.

The White People

-A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses..

There is a Reaper…

-"Doctors had given him just one month to live... What comes afterward? There was one way to find out—ask a dead man!"

The Demon Spell

-When spiritualism was all the craze, no party was reckoned complete without a spirit-rapping seance.