50 Classic Horror Books

Before there was Twilight, Anne Rice, or Stephen King, there was H.P. Lovecraft, J. Sheridan LeFanu, and Bram Stoker--discover here 50 chilling tales that inspired horror and gothic writers alike for generations to come. An active table of contents is included to help you quickly find each work.

Afterward by Edith Wharton
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
Bartleby, The Scrivener - A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville
The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu
The Castle of Otranto by E.J. Liston
The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
The Damned By Algernon Blackwood
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
The Dark House by I. A. R. Wylie
The Evil Guest by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
Graveyard Rats By Robert E. Howard
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Haunted Lives by J.S. LE FANU
House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Island of Doctor Moreau By H.G. Wells
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge By Ambrose Bierce
A Phantom Lover By Vernon Lee
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Shunned House by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The String of Pearls by Thomas Preskett Prest
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe
The Thing on the Doorstep H. P. Lovecraft
The Tomb's Secret By Robert E. Howard
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Vampyre, a Tale by John Polidori
Varney the Vampire by Thomas Preskett Prest
The History of the Caliph Vathek by William Beckford
The Watcher by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Water Spectre By Francis Lathom
Darkness By H. P. Lovecraft
Widdershins by Oliver Onions
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
Worms of the Earth by Robert E. Howard Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman