http://www.horrormasters.com/

ewgf

There's a great web site called http://www.horrormasters.com/ , which has loads of on-line horror stories, including classics like The Monk, The Monkey's Paw, Frankenstein and Dracula.

However, there's a lot of stories that nowadays seem weak or pointless, which is fair enough, considering that they've archived countless stories, and no doubt many of those that seem less than striking now were classics in their day, and only seem to have lost their punch now because we've seen/read/heard so much that has built on the older classics. But what stories from the site would you recommend? They don't carry much copyrighted material, but they do include *lots* from beyond that time period.

dm_boozefreek

A lot of the classics have lost their punch because in the last 70 years or so people have been REALLY getting killed like that, or there have been plagues threatening to wipe out the human race, or building have crumbled to the ground, and there have been huge natural disasters.

I suppose we're just waiting for the aliens now (OOOOH! almost a cornish moment there) :D

Zagreb

ewgf wrote: »

There's a great web site called http://www.horrormasters.com/ , which has loads of on-line horror stories, including classics like The Monk, The Monkey's Paw, Frankenstein and Dracula.

However, there's a lot of stories that nowadays seem weak or pointless, which is fair enough, considering that they've archived countless stories, and no doubt many of those that seem less than striking now were classics in their day, and only seem to have lost their punch now because we've seen/read/heard so much that has built on the older classics. But what stories from the site would you recommend? They don't carry much copyrighted material, but they do include *lots* from beyond that time period.

I'm quite interested to know what you mean specifically when you say some seem "weak or pointless". I read an old Bram Stoker story called "The Judge's House" a couple of years ago after finding it online and it was creepy as hell. I suppose some older stories might lose their bite because they play on things that don't creep people out so much anymore but a lot of the 19th century horror writers could be more than capable of playing on base fears.