Arcane Tales

ONE SUMMER NIGHT
by Ambrose Bierce

The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince. That he really was buried, the testimony of his senses compelled him to admit. His posture–flat upon his back, with his hands crossed upon [...]

THE VAMPYRE: A Tale.
By John William Polidori
THE VAMPYRE
(conclusion)

Aubrey being put to bed was seized with a most violent fever, and was often delirious; in these intervals he would call upon Lord Ruthven and upon Ianthe—by some unaccountable combination he seemed to beg of his former companion to spare the being he loved. At other times [...]

THE VAMPYRE: A Tale.
By John William Polidori
THE VAMPYRE (Part 1)

It happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of the town a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his rank. He gazed upon the mirth around him, as if he [...]

What The Moon Brings, by H. P. Lovecraft

I hate the moon- 
I am afraid of it- for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous.
It was in the spectral summer when the moon shone down on the old garden where I wandered; the spectral summer of narcotic [...]