Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
-John Cheever

We have ... a thirst unquenchable, to allay which he has not shown us the crystal springs. This thirst belongs to the immortality of Man.... It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us—but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.
-Edgar Allan Poe

Not being much of a prose-writer, there isn't any of my work here, but you can read stories (and the occasional novel) from horror authors and others to while away your time online.

The Doom that Came to Sarnath H P Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu H P Lovecraft

The Quest of Iranon H P Lovecraft

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe

Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Robert Lewis Stevenson