It's never good news when an investigator comes knocking at your door. The question is, is the news bad for you for the P.I.? What secrets dwell out in the barn, or deep in your past, or at the heart of things tracing back to a time before things with legs walked the land?

Laird Barron's "Shiva, Open Your Eye", published for free in NIghtmare Magazine, is a Lovecraftian tale told from the other side. Curiosity has driven the investigator far into territory more dangerous than he comprehends... but not even the monster he seeks knows the full truth of the cyclical horror that entraps us all.

Other Halloween Readings:

• "The Repairer of Reputations" by Robert W. Chambers

• "This Band Could Be Your Life" by Gary Butterfield

• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• "The Mask" by Robert W. Chambers

• "The Tower" by Marghanita Laski

• "The Prodigy of Dreams" by Thomas Ligotti

• "In the Court of the Dragon" by Robert W. Chambers

• "In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka