Reading path
A Warning to the Curious
Draw the curtains and keep the lamp lit. This is the ghost story proper: the reasonable narrator, the old house or the rented room, the thing that should not be in the photograph, glimpsed once and then, much worse, glimpsed again. From Hoffmann's sandman to the antiquaries of M.R. James, who really should have left that whistle in the ground, the form runs on curiosity punished. Every story here knows exactly how much to show you, which is almost nothing.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The SandmanE.T.A. Hoffmann, 1816
- 2. ViyNikolai Gogol, 1835
- 3. The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe, 1839
- 4. CarmillaSheridan Le Fanu, 1872
- 5. The Body-SnatcherRobert Louis Stevenson, 1884
- 6. The Death of Halpin FrayserAmbrose Bierce, 1891
- 7. The Great God PanArthur Machen, 1894
- 8. The Turn of the ScrewHenry James, 1898
- 9. The Monkey's PawW.W. Jacobs, 1902
- 10. Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryM.R. James, 1904
- 11. The WillowsAlgernon Blackwood, 1907
- 12. AfterwardEdith Wharton, 1910
- 13. The Beckoning Fair OneOliver Onions, 1911
- 14. The Open WindowSaki, 1914
- 15. The Daemon LoverShirley Jackson, 1948
- 16. The HospiceRobert Aickman, 1975
- 17. Let The Right One InJohn Ajvide Lindqvist, 2004
- 18. LigeiaEdgar Allan Poe, 1838