I was going through short stories mentioned in a horrorlit thread I found about scariest short stories ever, and some like They Bite and August Heat were disappointing (only in the sense that I am no longer at an impressionable age that these stories were maybe meant to be read) but then I got to The Yellow Wallpaper and holy shit.

The last few paragraphs seriously got me creeped out with how the POVs changed and just the general crazed tone of the flow, and for some reason that use of "every time" as the parting words sent chills down my spine.

I'm aware of the background context of the story and why Perkins wrote it, but I just choose to view it as a supernatural ghost tale which is better for me. Not better for me is finding out that.. she was a eugenicist? Anyways, are there any more short ones like this that could still scare an adult?