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COPYRIGHT INFOThe Horror Megapack is copyright © 2011 by Wildside Press LLC. All rightsreserved. For more information, contact the publisher.This is version 1.2, adding several minor corrections from previous editions.“Dagon,” by H.P. Lovecraft, originally appeared in The Vagrant (November,1917).“The Children of the Night,” by Robert E. Howard, originally appeared as a 2-part serial in Weird Tales magazine, April-May 1931.“Mother of Pearl,” by Fitz-James O’Brien, originally appeared in Harper’sMagazine (February, 1860) “Sometimes You Have to Shout About It,” byDarrell Schweitzer originally appeared in H. P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror#4, copyright © 2006 by Wildside Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.“The Story of Ming-Y,” by Lafcadio Hearn, originally appeared in SomeChinese Ghosts (1906).“By Moonlight,” by John Gregory Betancourt originally appeared in I,Vampire, copyright © 1985 by John Gregory Betancourt. Reprinted bypermission of the author.“The Gateway of the Monster,” by William Hope Hodgson originally appearedin Carnacki the Ghost Finder (1913).“Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book,” by M.R. James, originally appeared in theNational Review (1894).“The Lost Ghost,” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, originally appeared in TheWind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903).“Dracula’s Guest,” by Bram Stoker, originally appeared in Dracula’s Guestand Other Stories (1911).“The Man Who Found Out,” by Alternon Blackwood, originally appeared in inThe Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories (1921).“Phantas,” by Oliver Onions, was originally published in Widdershins (1911).“Fear,” by Achmed Abdullah, originally appeared in Detective StoryMagazine, February 4, 1919.“Pennies from Hell,” by Darrell Schweitzer, originally appeared in Night Cry,Spring 1987 issue. Copyright © 1987 by Darrell Schweitzer. Reprinted bypermission of the author.“The Hound,” by H.P. Lovecraft, originally appeared in Weird Tales, February 1924. Copyright © 1924by the Popular Fiction Publishing Co.
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Page 6 and 7: above.—John BetancourtPublisher,
Page 8 and 9: Benson Megapack The Cthulhu Mythos
Page 10 and 11: DAGON, by H.P. LovecraftI am writin
Page 12 and 13: I have said that the unbroken monot
Page 14 and 15: believe. Once I sought out a celebr
Page 16 and 17: and Celtic blood, but basically, th
Page 18 and 19: dual literary life, his swashbuckli
Page 20 and 21: But my eyes traveled down my body a
Page 22 and 23: only when their conquerors slept. I
Page 24 and 25: to a polite perturbation which his
Page 26 and 27: ways on the long trek and centuries
Page 28 and 29: MOTHER OF PEARL, by Fitz-James O’
Page 30 and 31: showed their mahogany faces above t
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Page 36 and 37: mental activity. All my efforts, ho
Page 38 and 39: rage, disappointment at her failure
Page 40 and 41: That evening saw us on our way home
Page 42 and 43: confessing!”Her statement was the
Page 44 and 45: “I didn’t have any orange wine,
Page 46 and 47: But she had overlooked her own love
Page 48 and 49: “He’s one of them now,” said
Page 50 and 51: Walt.”Amelia’s contradictory bl
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remnants of her hosiery.Ducoin chuc
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Madeline’s trembling bare body an
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SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SHOUT ABOUT I
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If no one else listened to her, if
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and everyone knew it and she lived
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THE STORY OF MING-Y, by Lafcadio He
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him by name. Turning his face in gr
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who preside over life and death and
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created by a rainbow in honor of Ko
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separated forever, shedding many te
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an illustrious house, by whom he be
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“Home,” I whispered.I’d been
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corner. Each time Smithers tried to
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too far into the woods one night fe
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scanning the obituary page. My moth
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I had always been one, only my feed
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that Anderson had mentioned in but
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“‘All right, Peter,’ I said,
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to be affected that way. He went ov
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“‘Let’s get out of here!’ I
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never forgot that three other peopl
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abruptly I saw the thing I was look
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of the room to the left of the bed.
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“I completed the barriers in abou
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CANON ALBERIC’S SCRAP-BOOK, by M.
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puzzling him all the day: the man m
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shape of an antiphoner; perhaps it
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throned King with a look of beast-l
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A penwiper? No, no such thing in th
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sinned and suffered, and have more
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idea of which evidently frightened
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then there came over the crest of t
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resume its course with a long, low
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—only broken by the low panting a
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seen, except that they found an Eng
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THE MAN WHO FOUND OUT, by AlgernonB
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the soul, of the meaning of life an
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“And a small portmanteau in the v
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little distance along the difficult
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he was powerless to help, was a sou
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muscles were tense and rigid. Then,
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heart.“Nothing is easier,” repl
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PHANTAS, by Oliver Onions“For, ba
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sucking down. She glided as if a lo
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Abel Keeling, his mind now noting m
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like a sightless man, he stumbled f
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stern the tallest and that to the l
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Abel Keeling. It would be the Amen
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a dream that he had no knowledge of
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and rumble on wood, and a crash of
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would scream, wherever he happened
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expected too much, feared too much
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As he shuffled, it had seemed to hi
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get me as sure as you’re born. I
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LUCIFER, by John D. SwainThe notori
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London; although as I have said, on
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circumstances; that he tried persis
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fall with the regular respiration o
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PENNIES FROM HELL, by Darrell Schwe
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and Joe and I used to go home on th
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shook it, and a penny dropped onto
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eagerness over the question, Can we
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what the next verse is, Jimbo?’
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“I dropped it with a yelp, as if
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good, but he was already dead. I ju
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THE HOUND, by H. P. LovecraftIn my
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insects that danced like death-fire
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unknown, we had always entertained
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nightmare retinue of huge, sinewy,
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up recycled into the new houses (
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The door to the operator’s cab ha
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white skin had lost all attraction
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Austin squeezed a lime. He didn’t
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“The same,” Foster said, watchi
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tingle.“Who wrote that thing?”
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That’s good service.”Foster mad
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question. “Who are—they? People
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The juke-box started to play “I
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usurer.It was a singular face, that
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little indeed. ’Tis an authentic
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like that caused by some person hop
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This operation over, she took a few
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coloured nations repeated in chorus
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PIT OF MADNESS, by E. Hoffmann Pric
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wings. Bat wings, it seemed. It dro
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one who could give him the most hel
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wearing the Order of Saint Léon. B
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the ritual from which she had escap
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Yet even as he yielded to that vort
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drugs sooner than the émir intende
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St. Mary’s County, Maryland. The
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gathered at the old country seat at
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paper to testify to the continuity
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water running in the bath room.Alre
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at the front and heavily at the bac
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“Try it yourself,” her guardian
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is someone with criminal connection
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raised and ready until the corner o
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exaggerated nonchalance, but once h
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Thrusting a hand into his pocket, h
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as that which conquered the first R
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butler’s captured pistol in his r
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two associates, both of whom were T
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to buy your trousseau.”
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Lewis Stillman fell heavily back ag
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He thought once more about the begi
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Thompson submachine, had been procu
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I can still make it, thought Stillm
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THE BELL IN THE FOG, by Gertrude At
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Although women invariably described
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beastly idiot about expressing myse
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when their sons go forth to encount
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American’s pride of ancestry. Ort
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of positive rapture. Then he took t
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great pale world. If such writers g
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except, perhaps, in the shadows of
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amiably, and she carried herself qu
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“Do you think she’s like other
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THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING, by Hugh
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by shock, and sent him bolting.”T
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reply. Not until he had stepped for
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wall. The thing was yellow with age
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unholy phosphorescent specter out o
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It was another five minutes before
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THE MAN WHO COLLECTED KNIVES, by Jo
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good.Now, in their little apartment
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it got in his hand, he didn’t kno
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father had told him the one time he
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