Category The Crypt

Death Has Red Hair

by Greye La Spina Originally published in Weird Tales, September 1942 We three men were hugging the open fire closely. The raw chill of that November night had closed in around us and the blazing logs yielded grateful warmth. Peter…

THE THING IN THE HALL

By E. F. Benson Originally published in The Room in the Tower and Other Stories 1912 THE following pages are the account given me by Dr Assheton of the Thing in the Hall. I took notes, as copious as my…

The Last Cigarette

By Greye La Spina Originally published in Weird Tales, March 1925 (From the Crypt, the story is in the public domain) MILTON WHEELER’S thick-set body shivered as he put a match to the wick of the oil heater, noting mechanically that…

Brenda

By Margaret St. Clair Originally published in Weird Tales, March 1954 BRENDA ALDEN was a product of that aseptic, faintly sadistic, school of child-rearing that is already a little old-fashioned. The vacationing parents on Moss Island liked her and held…

Demons of the Sea

By William Hope Hodgson Originally published in Sea Stories 1923 “Come out on deck and have a look, Darky!’” Jepson cried, rushing into the half deck. “The Old Man says there’s been a submarine earthquake, and the sea’s all bubbling…

THE CLOCK

by W. F. Harvey Originally published in The Beast with Five Fingers 1928 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. I don’t…