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ITT: Short, intriguing, creepy stories by authors not known for their terror fiction.
The Man on the Threshold, Jorge Luis Borges:
http://www.daily-pulp.com/literature/the-man-on-the-threshold/

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Axolotl, Julio Cortázar
http://southerncrossreview.org/73/axolotl.html

>> No.1515685

>>1515606

Thanks for these, OP. Have another:

http://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english320/Maugham-AS.htm

>> No.1515719

>>1515685
Will read :).

>> No.1515751

>>1515609
Casa Tomada creeps the fuck out of me, no matter how many times I've already read it.

>> No.1515757

I thought the HAL mental breakdown part in 2001 was pretty creepy. Reading the book made me feel more terrified than watching the film.

>> No.1515779

>>1515751
Yes, it's totally creppy! What about "La puerta condenada"? It's creepy as hell...

>> No.1515955

>>1515779

Do you have link to this in english my friend?

>> No.1516389

bump

>> No.1517775

Several of the shorts in Robert Charles Wilson's The Perseids and Other Stories have a horror story within a science fiction framework.

Heartily recommended.

>> No.1517777

octavio paz.

>> No.1517781

>>1517777

that is, "my life with the wave" by octavio paz.

also, though it is a cliche "the lottery" by shirley jackson. always startling.

>> No.1517787

>>1517781
>"the lottery" by shirley jackson.
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html

and here is a reading of "the gospel according to mark" by borges. another gut puncher.
http://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/fiction/071015_fiction_theroux.mp3?_kip_ipx=1993171104-1296714032

>> No.1518104

Wingstroke, Vladimir Nabokov

>> No.1518448

>>1515685
Wait a moment... isn't that story originally by Jean Cocteu...?
http://leadigloo.com/2009/06/the-face-of-death/
H

>> No.1518451

>>1517781
>>1517777
MFW this story:
http://members.multimania.co.uk/shortstories/pazblue.html