LitReading - Short Stories and Timeless Tales

A beautiful woman married for love, and the love turned to dust. The family lives in style, always a little past its means, and the house has started to whisper. Her small son hears it. He would like very much to be lucky. D. H. Lawrence wrote this for a book of ghost stories in 1926, and it remains one of the most unsettling things he ever put on paper.

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Below Vienna, the Danube floods out into a wilderness of sandbars and willow scrub that the maps mark only as marshes. Two old friends, an Englishman and a Swede, beach their canoe on a small island to wait out a gale. The wind won’t drop. The willows won’t keep still. By morning, one of them has stopped making jokes.

H. P. Lovecraft ranked Algernon Blackwood’s 1907 novella above every other supernatural tale in English.

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Below Vienna, the Danube floods out into a wilderness of sandbars and willow scrub that the maps mark only as marshes. Two old friends, an Englishman and a Swede, beach their canoe on a small island to wait out a gale. The wind won’t drop. The willows won’t keep still. By morning, one of them has stopped making jokes.
Two men paddle through the darkest stretch of the Danube.

H. P. Lovecraft ranked Algernon Blackwood’s 1907 novella above every other supernatural tale in English.

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A blizzard on the river. A ferryman’s empty hut. An old woodcutter and his young apprentice bar the door and wait for morning. Lafcadio Hearn’s retelling of a Japanese legend, from Kwaidan (1904), is a quiet ghost story with a long, cold reach.

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It starts on a Tuesday in October, at ten minutes to three in the morning. A low tone with no seam in it.

Hollis Pike's neighbors can't hear it. His phone can't record it. The audiologist says his hearing is fine, better than fine, and writes something down.

So he goes looking for where it comes from. The county keeps records. The house has a history. The sound is patient.

An original story, written and read by Don McDonald.

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