Horror Books

The Body-Snatcher

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson's short story The Body-Snatcher (1884) is the tale of MacFarlane and Fettes, a pair of "resurrection men," or body-snatchers - unsavory types who secretly disinter fresh corpses..

The Phantom Rickshaw

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888) is a collection of haunting tales by Rudyard Kipling. The celebrated Nobel prize winner wrote this collection while living in British controlled Indi..

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in four volumes on 8 May 1794 by G. G. and J. Robinson of London. The firm paid her £500 for the manuscript. The contract is housed at the Uni..

Doom of the Griffiths

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Among other traditions preserved relative to this part of the Welsh hero’s character, is the old family prophecy which gives title to this tale.  When Sir David Gam, “as black a traitor as if he ..

The Mysterious Stranger

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger is a novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each involves a super..

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

The Canterville Ghost is a novella by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887...

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country. The Secr..

The Dunwich Horror

H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft is a short story written in 1928. It first appeared in Weird Tales a year later. Set in Dunwich, Massachusetts, this tale is at the center of Lovecraft's series o..