You guys need more Lovecraftian horror in your lives. Here’s two good short stories I’ve come across online:

• A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (it’s one of the downloads listed on that page). An absolutely brilliant Sherlock Holmes/Lovecraft crossover story. The Victorian newspaper-style layout of the PDF lends a nice touch, too.

• A Colder War by Charles Stross. This is more of a short novella than a short story, but it’s good–retelling the Cold War through the filter of the Cthulhu Mythos. Fun stuff.

I’ve been in the mood for this sort of story ever since recently finishing Tim Powers’ novel Declare, an alternate-history Cold War novel about occult spies. That may merit its own post later, but in the meantime, the above two stories are worth the read.