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Great Horror Stories
H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Walter de la Mare, Daniel Defoe · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorClassic Tales of Horror
Rudyard Kipling, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, E.F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins · 240 pages
Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) King Pest Lig
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Phyllis Cerf · 1,056 pages
The Dark Descent
Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates · 1,011 pages
pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4555
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
William L. Hedges · 358 pages
Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic
Gaslit Horror: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others
Hugh Lamb, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert W. Chambers, Bernard Capes, J.E. Preston Muddock, Isabella Varley Banks, Charles J. Mansford · 256 pages
Includes : Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks - The Pride of the Corbyns (1882) ; Charles J. Mansford - Maw-Sayah (1894) ; Mrs. L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace - The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel (1897) ; Bernard Capes - The Black Reaper (1899) ; S. Levett-Yeats - The Devil's Manuscript (1899) ; Dick Donovan - The Mystic Spell (1899) ; Lafcadio Hearn - Nightmare-Touch (1900) ; Robert W. Chambers - Un Peu d'Amour
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, John William Polidori, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, August Derleth, James Malcolm Rymer, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles L. Grant, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Aickman, Bram Stoker, Carl Jacobi, Steve Rasnic Tem, M.R. James, Charles Beaumont · 640 pages
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is the definitive collection of short tales of those deadly bloodsuckers. Editor Alan Ryan includes a wide range of talents here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee. Contents: "Fragment of a Novel" by George Gordon, Lord Byron "The Vampyre" by John Polidori "Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood" [excerpt] by James Malcolm Rymer "The Myst
Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others
Hugh Lamb · 256 pages
American Supernatural Tales
Thomas Ligotti, Fritz Leiber, Fitz-James O'Brien, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, August Deleth, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Norman Partridge, David J. Schow, Stephen Ki · 494 pages
The Winter Spirits
Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman · 464 pages
THE DAZZLING SECOND GHOST STORY COLLECTION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON, NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha PulleyElizabeth Macneal Laura Purcell Susan Stokes-Ch
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror
Ambrose Bierce, Francis Marion Crawford, Robert W. Chambers, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Ralph Adams Cram, Irvin S. Cobb, Edward Lucas White, Clark Ashton Smith, Rudyard Kipling, E.F. Benson, Hugh Walpole, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Robert Lo · 656 pages
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories
Audrey Niffenegger · 464 pages
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Charles Dickens, Steve Rasnic Tem, Donald A. Wolheim, Henry Slesar, Richard T. Chizmar, Avram Davidson, Gary Raisor, E.F. Benson, Saki, Frances Garfield, Rudyard Kipling, Phyllis Eisenstein, William F. Nolan, Ed Gorman, Eric Frank Russell, Melissa Mia Hall, Ruth Berman, Edward D. Hoch, James Gunn, R · 496 pages
Contains: Adventure of my grandfather / Washington Irving Adventure of my aunt / Washington Irving Adventure of the German student / Washington Irving Ants / Chet Williamson Assembly of the dead / Chet Williamson At the bureau / Steve Rasnic Tem Babylon : 70 M. / Donald A. Wollheim [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) / Edgar Allan Poe Beyond the wall / Ambrose Bi
Essential Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe · 642 pages
Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpected—and surprisingly modern—flashes of dark humor and irony. This anthology offers an exceptionally generous se
Six Scary Stories
Elodie Harper, Manuela Saragosa, Paul Bassett Davies, Michael Button, Stuart Johnstone, Neil Hudson · 162 pages
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
Japanese Supernatural Tales
Edited by Michael Dylan Foster
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye, · 658 pages
Contents Marvin Kaye – Introduction: In Search Of Masterpieces Bram Stoker – Dracula’s Guest Theodore Sturgeon – The Professor’s Teddy Bear Ivan Turgenev – Bubnoff And The Devil Patricia Highsmith – The Quest For Blank Claveringi Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – The Erl King Robert Louis Stevenson – The Bottle Imp Craig Shaw Gardner – A Malady Of Magicks M. Lucie Chin – Lan Lung Richard
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories
Elizabeth Albright, Thorp McClusky, Basil Copper, Ray Bradbury, Fay Weldon, Richard Dehand, Herbert de Hamel, A.E. Coppard, Norah Lofts, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Ralph Adams Carm, M.R. James, Ellen Glasgow, Hugh Walpole, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Nigel Kneale, Penelope Lively, Arthur Conan Doyle, · 576 pages
Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead -- from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, incl
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker · 131 pages
Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable
In a Glass Darkly
J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 339 pages
In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. The book, published in 1872 a year before Le Fanu's death, is named from a passage in Corinthians which speaks of humankind perceiving the world "through a glass darkly." The stories are told from the posthumous writings of an occult detective named Dr Martin Hesselius. In Green Tea a cle
Ghosts by Gaslight
Peter S. Beagle, Terry Dowling, Garth Nix, Gene Wolfe, Margo Lanagan, Sean Williams, Robert Silverberg, John Harwood, Richard Harland, Marly Youmans, Theodora Goss, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Paul Park, Jeffrey Ford, James K. Morrow, John Langan · 389 pages
A collection of steampunk and supernatural tales that breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.
The Dark: New Ghost Stories
Jeffrey Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, Mike O'Driscoll, Terry Dowling, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Cady, Tanith Lee, Gahan Wilson, Sharyn McCrumb, Kathe Koja, Lucius Shepard, Kelly Link, Glen Hirshberg, Charles L. Grant · 384 pages