Read The Tell-Tale Heart

Ichabod Crane rides home past the churchyard and meets the Headless Horseman; the first American ghost story.

A portrait ages while its subject sins; Wilde's only novel.

Diaries, letters and ship's logs assemble the Count; Stoker invented the vampire we have.

A respectable doctor and his other self, in sixty pages of fog.

A woman shut in a nursery for a rest cure starts reading the wallpaper and finds a figure creeping behind the pattern.

Three wishes on a mummified paw, and the knocking at the door after the second one.

An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.

A village gathers on a June morning for the annual draw; the New Yorker lost subscribers over what the draw is for.