Best Horror Short Stories

I'm always in search of the all time best Horror short stories out there - Here are a few of my favorites:

The Man in the Black Suit- Stephen King
Nightcrawlers - Robert R. McGammon
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains- Neil Gaiman
Click Clack Rattlebag - Neil Gaiman
The Thing on the Doorstep - H.P. Lovecraft

I would love to hear about the favorites of others. Thank you!

The Human Chair by Edogawa Rampo is top notch. My Favorite Horror Story (which is where I encountered the aforementioned) is actually the best collection of any short stories I've encountered, horror or otherwise, they're winners. That's what happens when you ask the best horror writers what their favorite/most memorable horror story they've read was! Aside of that I can't really say, as I am not a particular fan of short stories and don't read very many. However, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales is a pretty decent collection.

I will check both of those out, thanks!

Anything by M.R. James.

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison and The Telltale Heart by Edgar Alan Poe.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman Perkins
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
I Am the Doorway by Stephen King

These are the stories that have stuck with me since I was a kid.

Some stories I have recently enjoyed:
Replacements by Lisa Tuttle
Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment by M. Rickert
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
a ghost samba by Ian McDonald
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi
Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler
Escape from Spiderhead by George Saunders
Click Clack the Rattlebag by Neil Gaiman

I meant to add, if you like horror, you should check out the Horror! group: http://www.librarything.com/groups/horror1

We do a different theme each month. Participation is optional. We have a short stories month and a ghost stories month planned for later in the year.

Oh boy. If I had to pick a top five:

1) "The Cask of Amontillado" - Edgar Allan Poe (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1063)
2) "The White People" - Arthur Machen (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25016/25016-h/25016-h.htm#Page_111)
3) The Shadow over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.aspx)
4) "Survivor Type" - Stephen King (http://www.georgetownisd.org/cms/lib/tx01001838/centricity/domain/594/survivor_type.pdf)
5) "A Colder War" - Charles Stross (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm)

If you like horror short stories, make sure you check out our "DEEP ONES" reading group over at The Weird Tradition:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/220494

You guys mentioned several that are on my favorites list but I hadn't mentioned -

Survivor Type - Stephen King
The Yellow Wallpaper - C. G. Perkins
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

But the fact that you mentioned those just makes me that more confident in your other recs! Thank you for the suggestions, these should keep me busy for a while! :)

The Yellow Wallpaper is really fabulous, but though it's got the elements of a Gothic/horror story I tend not to really view it as horror, due to the nonfiction feminist meaning it has.

The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft

Muddy Waters - Brian Knight

The Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R. Lansdale