Horror Books

The Islington Mystery

Arthur Machen

The Islington Mystery is a collection of short stories by Arthur Machen, one of the modern masters of supernatural and horror fiction.Excerpts:The public taste in murders is often erratic, and sometim..

The Damned

Algernon Blackwood

The Damned is a horror short story written by Algernon Blackwood, an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the ..

Collected Works of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamen..

The Ghost Pirates

William Hope Hodgson

The Ghost Pirates is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besie..

Varney the Vampire

Thomas Preskett Prest

Varney the Vampire, the Gothic story has been written by ames Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in..

The Vampyre

John William Polidori

The Vampyre is a vampire fiction in prose written by English physician John William Polidori, and it is erroneously attributed to Lord Byron. Interestingly there was a competition between au..

The Monster

S. M. Tenneshaw

The Monster is a horror science fiction story written by S. M. Tenneshaw, an American short story writer.What will cosmic rays do to a living organism? Will they destroy life, or produce immortal..

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Charles Dickens

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novellas.The story centers ..