With Halloween just around the corner, I got a little excited when I saw a link to “A Highbrow Halloween Reading List.” It’s a little disappointing, though, not least because there’s no Lovecraft. (Here‘s one of my favorites of his.)
But for a truly horrifying tale—the kind that gives you the heebie-jeebies from the very first word—you can’t go wrong with Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows. Several e-book versions are available (FREE!) at Project Gutenberg. Read it…if you dare.
