Reading Recommendations

Weird Short Stories

1. “They’re Made out of Meat,” by Terry Bisson
2. “The Swimmer,” by John Cheever
3. “The God of Dark Laughter,” by Michael Chabon
4. Anything and everything by Kelly Link
5. “Cup and Table” by Tim Pratt

Horror Stories

1. “Exit Exam, Section III: Survival Skills, Question #7” by David Erik Nelson
2. “Coyote Tails,” by Jim Bihyeh
3. “The Poor Girl Taken By Surprise,” by Gemma Files
4. “The Burning Servant,” by Steven Saus
5. “Heavy Rains” by Andrew Nicolle
6. “Beluthahatchee” by Andy Duncan
7. “Heartstrung,” by Rachel Swirsky
8. “Cry Room,” by Ted Kosmatka
9. “The Teacher,” by Paul Tremblay
10. “Connecting Door” by Richard Dansky
11. “Excavation” by Ben Thomas
12. “Tales of the White Street Society – The Corpse Army of Karthoum,” by Grady Hendrix
13. “Bottom Feeding,” by Tim Pratt
14. “Blood, Gridlock, and PEZ” by Kevin Anderson
15. “The Sons of Carbon County” by Amanda Spikol
16. “A Last Kiss for Lazarus Winters, a Saint Darwin’s Spiritual,” by DK Thompson
17. “Some Kind of Blood Soaked Future,” by Carlie St. George
18. “Town Manager,” by Thomas Legotti
19. “The Primakov” by RJ Hobbs
20. “Teddy Bears and Tea Parties,” by S. Boyd Taylor
21. “Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command,” by Seth Dickinson

Lovecraftian Horror

1.  “Jihad Over Innsmouth,” by Edward Morris
2. “The Call of the Pancake Factory” by Ken Liu
3.  “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emry
4. “The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward,” by Elizabeth Bear
5. “In the Black Mill,” by Michael Chabon
6. “The Great American Nightmare,” by Moaner T. Lawrence

On Horror

1. The Danse Macabre, by Stephen King
2. Supernatural Horror in Literature, by HP Lovecraft

Web Comics

1. XKCD
2. Existential Comics
3. Tiny Revelations
4. Questionable Content