And for another super-effective example of horror: Fritz Leiber's short story "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes."
H.P. Lovecraft's also written some good horror, but I personally actually find his uncanny-valley skirting stuff about things that used to be human but aren't anymore or aren't human but are becoming like us scarier than his cosmic horror cthulhu mythos stuff. "The Lurking Fear" and "The Rats in the Walls" and "Pickman's Model" are all a lot more frightening to me than "The Call of Cthulhu." Also especially horrifying in "The Rats in the Walls" is the part where the narator's black cat is named "[horrible racial slur]". I reccommend copying the story into MS word and doing a search-replace with something like "Mr. Fluffy" before reading it, because otherwise your brain comes to a screeching horrified halt everytime the narrator says, "My cat, [horrible racial slur]" and you never get a chance to be horrified by the rats and their "cattle.".
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Date: 2013-02-28 09:29 pm (UTC)H.P. Lovecraft's also written some good horror, but I personally actually find his uncanny-valley skirting stuff about things that used to be human but aren't anymore or aren't human but are becoming like us scarier than his cosmic horror cthulhu mythos stuff. "The Lurking Fear" and "The Rats in the Walls" and "Pickman's Model" are all a lot more frightening to me than "The Call of Cthulhu." Also especially horrifying in "The Rats in the Walls" is the part where the narator's black cat is named "[horrible racial slur]". I reccommend copying the story into MS word and doing a search-replace with something like "Mr. Fluffy" before reading it, because otherwise your brain comes to a screeching horrified halt everytime the narrator says, "My cat, [horrible racial slur]" and you never get a chance to be horrified by the rats and their "cattle.".