Horror Books

The Best Ghost Stories

Various Authors

Good ghost stories have been told for millennia in some form or another, and no matter how old you are, they never go out of style. This is a collection from 1919 of various ghost stories by a range o..

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce a satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. Nothing is know..

The Monkey's Paw

W. W. Jacobs

The Monkey's Paw is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of..

The House of the Vampire

George Sylvester Viereck

A Goth psychic vampire - who feeds off of more than just blood! What has been can be again, though often horribly altered. This energetically inventive Gothic styled vampire story is infused with a re..

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a Ne..

The Shining Pyramid

Arthur Machen

Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863-1947) who wrote under the pen name Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is also well..

Infernaliana

Charles Nodier

Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier was an influential French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, and vampire tales. His drea..

Olalla

Robert Louis Stevenson

Olalla was a shilling shocker written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The nameless protagonist of this Gothic tale, a wounded sold..