Reading Rumble Round 21

Shirley Jackson has always been in the ring.

The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson
Come Along With Me, 1968

Small town busybody sends anonymous letters accusing townsfolk of various ills.

Duck Hunt by Joe Lansdale
After Midnight, 1986

A boy enters the rites of manhood at a "duck" hunt.

Pink Elephants by Robert Bloch
Strange Stories, August 1939

A man is driven to drink and haunted by pink elephants after stealing a treasure from the temple of Ganesh. A long way to go to justify pink elephants, and not much more to the story.

Poison by Roald Dahl
Collier's, June 1950

Suspense classic of a man in bed with a poisonous snake under the covers with him. Suffers somewhat for not being as good as Hitchcock's adaptation.

Yea, Though I Drive by Ron Kelly
Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror, 1991

Hitchhiking serial killer tale with more false finishes than a Flair/Steamboat match.

Bloch goes flying out of the ring, taking Jackson with him.