Horror Books
The Lurking Fear
H. P. LovecraftThe Lurking Fear is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew...
The Enchanted Typewriter
John Kendrick BangsThe Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of t..
The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanThis is a collection of short stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The stories all have different topics, there are mysterious deaths, haunted houses, ghosts, moving shadows, and all other ingredients ..
A String of Pearls
UnknownThe tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String ..
A Journey from This World to the Next
Henry FieldingThe narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny S..
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuJ. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom ..
The Hill of Dreams
Arthur MachenThe Hill of Dreams is a horror novel written by Arthur Machen, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fic..
A Phantom Lover
Vernon LeeA Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, the story concerns a portrait painter commissioned by a squir..