31 Days of Horror Media

OCTOBER 2015

  1. The Cat With Hands, Robert Morgan [video]
  2. Mantis Wives, Kij Johnson [fiction]
    3. "Eventually, the mantis women discovered that killing their husbands was not inseparable from the getting of young."
  3. The Thing on the Fourble Board, Quiet, Please [radioplay]
    4. "What is it down there, deep in the past, at the bottom of the hole? Is it just rock and oil, or is there something else being brought up out of the core of the Earth?"
  4. Afterward, Edith Wharton [fiction]
    5. "Oh, there is one, of course, but you'll never know it."
  5. Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls, Brian Hodge [podcast reading]
    6. "She seemed not to have heard me even though I knew she had, and I started to feel bad for asking it at all."
  6. Out of Skin, Emily Carroll [comic]
  7. I Proposed To My Girlfriend, But She’d Been Replaced [2ch creepypasta, translated by vgperson summary if you get confused)]
    8. "A 2ch thread from December 2011 about... um... Well, about confusion, we'll say."
  8. To Kafka, With Love, Carl Baker [fiction]
    9. "That well known adage, that girls mature much faster than boys, was wishful thinking to fourteen year old Milena during the first few months of her romance with Brody."
  9. Carol, thelittlefears [video]
    10. "Art project."
  10. Pontypool [radioplay]
    11. A deadly virus transmitted by words.
  11. William and Mary, Roald Dahl [fiction]
    12. "William Pearl did not leave a great deal of money when he died, and his will was a simple one. With the exception of a few small bequests to relatives, he left all his property to his wife."
  12. Scarecrow, Alyssa Wong [fiction]
    13. "On the morning of his funeral, you wake screaming from nightmares of Jonathan Chin, your mouth crammed full of feathers."
  13. Ib, kouri [RPG Maker game, translated by vgperson]
    14. "A young girl named Ib visits an art gallery with her parents. While observing the many exhibits, she suddenly realizes she is alone. And in her search for others, she finds things awry in the gallery..."
  14. Skullpocket, Nathan Ballingrud [fiction]
    15. "Jonathan Wormcake, the Gentleman Corpse of Hob’s Landing, greets me at the door himself."
  15. The Seamstress, Tyler Mann [video]
    16. "A young woman and her dog encounter something supernatural while she's working in her garage..."
  16. Stone Animals, Kelly Link [fiction]
    17. "Henry asked a question. He was joking.
    'As a matter of fact,' the real estate agent snapped, 'it is.'"
  17. The Same In Any Language, Ramsey Campbell [fiction]
    18. "The day my father is to take me where the lepers used to live is hotter than ever."
  18. The Bacchae, Elizabeth Hand [fiction]
    19. "She got into the elevator with him, the young woman from down the hall, the one he’d last seen at the annual Coop Meeting a week before."
  19. Pale Luna, Mikhail Honoridez [creepypasta]
    20. PALE LUNA SMILES AT YOU.
  20. Look Me In The Eyes When You Talk, Iwaaki Hitoshi [manga one-shot]
  21. The Listener, Algernon Blackwood [fiction]
    22. "Sept. 4.—I have hunted all over London for rooms suited to my income—£120 a year—and have at last found them."
  22. A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor [fiction]
    23. "The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind."
  23. The Mezzotint, M. R. James [fiction]
    24. "Some time ago I believe I had the pleasure of telling you the story of an adventure which happened to a friend of mine by the name of Dennistoun, during his pursuit of objects of art for the museum at Cambridge."
  24. Daymare Town, Mateusz Skutnik [flash game series]
  25. The Lost Boy of the Ozarks, by Steve Friedman (as Neville Franks) [fiction | podcast version!]
    26. "Goodnight Hollow, Missouri - A boy walked into the woods and no one worried."
  26. The Crevasse, Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrund [fiction]
    27. "What he loved was the silence, the pristine clarity of the ice shelf: the purposeful breathing of the dogs straining against their traces, the hiss of the runners, the opalescent arc of the sky."
  27. The Night Wire, H. F. Arnold [fiction]
    28. "There is something ungodly about these night wire jobs. You sit up here on the top floor of a skyscraper and listen in to the whispers of a civilization."
  28. The Watcher In The Corners, Sarah Monette [fiction]
    29. "Lilah Collier was washing the windows the first time the sheriff showed up."
  29. Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Conrad Aiken [fiction]
    30. "Just why it should have happened, or why it should have happened just when it did, he could not, of course, possibly have said; nor perhaps would it even have occurred to him to ask."
  30. FAITH, Airdorf [game]
    31. "Haunted by nightmares and searching for answers, a young priest travels down a dark highway to return to the cursed house a year later."
  31. A Haunted House, Virginia Woolf [fiction]
    32. "Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure—a ghostly couple."

OCTOBER 2014

  1. Caterpillars, E.F. Benson [fiction]
    2. "I saw a month or two ago in an Italian paper that the Villa Cascana, in which I once stayed, had been pulled down, and that a manufactory of some sort was in process of erection on its site."
  2. The Willows, Algernon Blackwood [fiction]
    3. "After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes."
  3. The Beckoning Fair One, Oliver Onions [fiction]
    4. "The three or four "To Let" boards had stood within the low paling as long as the inhabitants of the little triangular "Square" could remember, and if they had ever been vertical it was a very long time ago."
  4. They Go Deep, Izzy Winchester [short fiction]
    5. "There was frost on the ground, and it was too warm."
  5. The Summer People, Shirley Jackson [fiction]
    6. "The Allisons’ country cottage, seven miles from the nearest town, was set prettily on a hill; from three sides it looked down on soft trees and grass that seldom, even at midsummer, lay still and dry."
  6. 57 Reasons For the Slate Quarry Suicides, Sam J Miller [fiction]
  7. A Woman Seldom Found, William Sansom [fiction]
    8. "Once a young man was on a visit to Rome."
  8. The Spider, Hans Heinz Ewers [fiction]
    9. "When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays."
  9. Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad, M. R. James [fiction]
    10. "'I suppose you will be getting away pretty soon, now Full term is over, Professor,' said a person not in the story to the Professor of Ontography, soon after they had sat down next to each other at a feast in the hospitable hall of St. James's College."
  10. The Old Pageant, Richard Gavin [fiction]
    11. "He didn’t want her to know how physically taxing he’d found the long drive to the woods, how tedious the prospect of unpacking seemed, or how repugnantly primitive he found their accommodations to be upon their arrival."
  11. Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl [fiction]
    12. "The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight—hers and the one by the empty chair opposite."
  12. The Clock, W. F. Harvey [fiction]
    13. "I liked your description of the people at the pension. I can just picture that rather sinister Miss Cornelius, with her toupee and clinking bangles."
  13. the uncle who works for nintendo [twine fiction]
    14. "You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house.
    You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games.
    And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo.
    And he's coming to visit at midnight."
  14. my father’s long, long legs [twine fiction]
    15. "My family lived on the southern edge of a certain Midwestern industrial city in an old house, old enough that its basement still had a dirt floor."
  15. annie96 is typing…, Pascal Chatterjee [fiction]
    16. " While playing around with WhatsApp, I stumbled across a weird chat history between two people I don't know. It scared the hell out of me. When I tried to find it again, the app crashed, and kept crashing.
    Luckily, I managed to make a copy."
  16. Curious Little Thing, Kris Straub [fiction]
    17. "I have an odd habit a friend recently picked up on, a habit I developed about a year ago."
  17. The Whistling Room, William Hope Hodgson [fiction]
    18. "(Thomas Carnacki, the famous Investigator of "real" ghost stories, tells here the results of his peculiar and weird investigations in The Whistling Room)"
  18. One Too Many [creepypasta]
    19. "There was a college student (we call him 'D') who loved pulling people's legs."
  19. The Dionaea House [epistolary fiction]
  20. Bones of God, Irene Vallone [fiction]
    21. "'Bones of God': A Play to be Performed Before an Audience of the Dead"
  21. Calcutta, Lord of Nerves, Poppy Z. Brite [fiction]
    22. "I was born in a North Calcutta hospital in the heart of an Indian midnight just before the beginning of the monsoon season."
  22. Cargo, E. Michael Lewis [fiction (cw: jonestown)]
    23. "I dreamt of cargo."
  23. Whimsywood, Christopher Wolf [creepypasta]
    24. "I always hated road trips."
  24. The Outermost Borough, Gahan Wilson [fiction]
    25. "Once again, with a gesture which had turned into a sort of nervous tic during this morning's long waiting, Barstow pressed his face against the dirty glass of his studio's wide central window in order to peer anxiously down the crowded city street below, westward towards Manhattan."
  25. The Red Lodge, H. R. Wakefield [fiction]
    26. "I am writing this from an imperative sense of duty, for I consider The Red Lodge is a foul death-trap and utterly unfit to be a human habitation—it has its own proper denizens—and because I know its owner to be an unspeakable blackguard to allow it so to be used for his financial advantage."
  26. Someone in the Lift, L. P. Hartley [podcast reading (timestamp 00:12:14)]
  27. Where All Things Perish, Tanith Lee [fiction]
    28. "It was glimpsing Polleto again, between trains, at that hotel in Vymart, which made me remember."
  28. The Specialist’s Hat, Kelly Link [fiction]
    29. "'When you’re Dead,' Samantha says, 'you don’t have to brush your teeth.'"
  29. The Open Window, Saki [fiction]
    30. "'My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,' said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; 'in the meantime you must try and put up with me.'"
  30. David Lynch’s A Goofy Movie [video]
  31. The Ten Steps [video]