A mysterious light burning on a deserted stretch of coastline. A passenger who refuses to stay dead. A perfectly ordinary house with something terribly wrong inside it. And an ancient black stone that would be better left undisturbed.

Walking Among the Horrors brings together 13 strange, unsettling stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including some forgotten gems and a few genuine pulp classics.

These are the kinds of stories people used to read by lamplight, when a good ghost story could keep you awake long after the house had gone quiet. The good old days, right?!

There's a little of everything here: restless spirits, haunted houses, strange visions, gruesome deaths, psychological terror, and even a touch of cosmic horror.

The Stories:

The Dark Lady (1848) by Anna Maria Hall. A mysterious woman dressed in black appears to members of a Swiss family.

Mistress Marian's Light (1889) by Gertrude Morton. A strange light along the rocky Maine coast.

At La Glorieuse (1891) by M. E. M. Davis. At an old Louisiana plantation, a young romance becomes entangled with family secrets and the disturbing mystery of an abandoned ballroom.

The Wrong Door (1891) by W. C. Morrow. A troubled man enters the wrong door at a friend's house and finds himself trapped in a terrifying situation.

Not on the Passenger List (1892) by Robert Barr. A steamship has a very strange Atlantic crossing.

Night and Silence (1906) by Maurice Level. Three impoverished, disabled siblings endure a night of terrible confusion and mounting horror.

The Man with the Nose (1909) by Morley Roberts. An unsuspecting English clergyman finds himself in mortal danger after being mistaken for another man.

Broken Glass (1911) by Georgia Wood Pangborn. A mother's mysterious encounter on a lonely winter road forces her to reconsider how she treats the young woman caring for her children.

Inexplicable (1917) by L. G. Moberly. A family moves into an attractive suburban house only to discover horrifying disturbances.

Shadows (1921) by Alma Newton. A woman's terrifying dream of a condemned prisoner becomes something far stranger than she imagined.

The Wade Monument (1921) by Violet Jacob. A mysterious woman appearing in an old church leads a war veteran toward a long-buried secret.

The Black Stone (1931) by Robert E. Howard. An investigator travels to a remote Hungarian village to examine an ancient monolith and uncovers evidence of something monstrous from before recorded history.

The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh (1937) by Harry Sivia. After the death of her kindly employer, a mistreated servant discovers that some promises may be kept even from beyond the grave.

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