Category The Crypt

From the Crypt: The Finale

By WM. MERRIT Originally published in Weird Tales, May 1923 Thornton Stowe was always a puzzle to me. Very methodical in everything from early childhood, he always seemed utterly devoid of impulsive emotion. The only thing he ever did that really…

Jamieson by Margaret St. Clair

Originally published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1949 From #CHM 71 May 2026 The Curse (said the man who was sitting in the armchair with the orange upholstery) which fell upon Jamieson was unjustified. As a husband he was kind,…

Four O’Clock

By Sonia H. Greene Originally published in Something About Cats and Other Pieces, 1922 From #CHM 69 March 2026 About two in the morning I knew it was coming. The great black silences of night’s depth told me, and a…

The Siren

By Tarleton Collier From CHM #60 June 2025 With an abrupt jerk, Joe Wilson, from lying on a cot in the little tent, lifted himself on his elbow in an attitude of intent listening. There was no sound except the…

The Black Stone Statue 

by Mary Elizabeth Counselman From CHM #59 May 2025 Directors, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.  Gentlemen:  Today I have just received aboard the S. S. Madrigal your most kind cable, praising my work and asking—humbly, as one might ask it of…

Take the Z-Train

By Allison V. Harding  From CHM #58 April 2025 THE seer had said—all things of certain wisdom and uncertain origin would derive so well from seers—”At the end, the old look back to relive and see again the pattern of…