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Dracula

Bram Stoker

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Uncle Silas

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

The Monk

Matthew Lewis

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

The Great God Pan

Arthur Machen

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

The Dunwich Horror

H. P. Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shunned House

H. P. Lovecraft

The Willows

Algernon Blackwood

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson

The Beetle

Richard Marsh

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Varney the Vampire

Thomas Preskett Prest

The Colour Out of Space

H. P. Lovecraft

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M. R. James

More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M. R. James

John Silence, Physician Extraordinary

Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo

Algernon Blackwood

The Hill of Dreams

Arthur Machen

The Three Impostors

Arthur Machen

Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

William Hope Hodgson

The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

William Hope Hodgson

The Ghost Pirates

William Hope Hodgson

Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce

The Lair of the White Worm

Bram Stoker

The Jewel of Seven Stars

Bram Stoker

Hauntings

Vernon Lee

Black Magic

Marjorie Bowen

Wylder's Hand

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Vathek

William Beckford

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe

Wieland; or, The Transformation

Charles Brockden Brown

The Man with the Black Feather

Gaston Leroux

The Blood of the Vampire

Florence Marryat

The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Bram Stoker

Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Three John Silence Stories

Algernon Blackwood

The House of Souls

Arthur Machen

The Terror

Arthur Machen

In Search of the Unknown

Robert W. Chambers

The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Algernon Blackwood

Incredible Adventures

Algernon Blackwood

The Best Ghost Stories

M. R. James

Brood of the Witch-Queen

Sax Rohmer

Zanoni

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A Strange Story

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Sorrows of Satan

Marie Corelli

The Haunted Hotel

Wilkie Collins

The Necromancers

Robert Hugh Benson

The Return

Walter de la Mare

Lady Audley's Secret

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Phantom Ship

Frederick Marryat

One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances

Théophile Gautier

The Parasite

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Snake's Pass

Bram Stoker

The Mystery of the Sea

Bram Stoker

The Lady of the Shroud

Bram Stoker

The Were-Wolf

Clemence Housman

The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Lukundoo, and Other Stories

Edward Lucas White

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

The Vampyre

John William Polidori

The Old English Baron

Clara Reeve

Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Melmoth the Wanderer

Charles Robert Maturin

The Romance of the Forest

Ann Ward Radcliffe

A Sicilian Romance

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The Italian

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

H. P. Lovecraft

The Jolly Corner

Henry James

The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

Rudyard Kipling

A Thin Ghost and Others

M. R. James

A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories

M. R. James

Clarimonde

Théophile Gautier

The Mummy's Foot

Théophile Gautier

Three Ghost Stories

Charles Dickens

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Charles Dickens

To Be Read at Dusk

Charles Dickens

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki

The White People

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Ambrose Bierce

The Parenticide Club

Ambrose Bierce

The Damned Thing

Ambrose Bierce

The Damned

Algernon Blackwood

Day and Night Stories

Algernon Blackwood

The Garden of Survival

Algernon Blackwood

The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War

Arthur Machen

Visible and Invisible

E. F. Benson

The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories

E. F. Benson

Widdershins

Oliver Onions

The Room in the Dragon Volant

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Watcher, and Other Weird Stories

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Evil Guest

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Checkmate

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Poor Clare

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Doom of the Griffiths

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Curious, If True: Strange Tales

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Kerfol

Edith Wharton

La Grande Breteche

Honoré de Balzac

Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The Man

Bram Stoker

The Waif Woman

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation

Louisa May Alcott

The Dead Secret

Wilkie Collins

Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Glad Ghosts

D. H. Lawrence

A Journey from This World to the Next

Henry Fielding

The Ghost-Seer; or, The Apparitionist

Friedrich Schiller

The Thing on the Doorstep

H. P. Lovecraft

The Haunter of the Dark

H. P. Lovecraft

Cool Air

H. P. Lovecraft

He

H. P. Lovecraft

The Festival

H. P. Lovecraft

Through the Gates of the Silver Key

H. P. Lovecraft

Medusa's Coil

Zealia B. Bishop

The Curse of Yig

Zealia B. Bishop

The Hounds of Tindalos

Frank Belknap Long

The Fire of Asshurbanipal

Robert E. Howard

Black Hound of Death

Robert E. Howard

The Grisly Horror

Robert E. Howard

Black Canaan

Robert E. Howard

The Moon of Skulls

Robert E. Howard

The Hills of the Dead

Robert E. Howard

Rattle of Bones

Robert E. Howard

Sea Curse

Robert E. Howard

The Fearsome Touch of Death

Robert E. Howard

The Haunter of the Ring

Robert E. Howard

The Dream Snake

Robert E. Howard

The Hyena

Robert E. Howard

Dig Me No Grave

Robert E. Howard

The House of the Vampire

George Sylvester Viereck

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

George W. M. Reynolds

Auriol; or, The Elixir of Life

William Harrison Ainsworth

The String of Pearls; or, The Barber of Fleet Street

James Malcolm Rymer

The Joss: A Reversion

Richard Marsh

The Haunting of Low Fennel

Sax Rohmer

Portrait of a Man with Red Hair

Hugh Walpole

Benighted

J. B. Priestley

Old House of Fear

Russell Kirk

Conjure Wife

Fritz Leiber

The Dark Other

Stanley G. Weinbaum

Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Charles Brockden Brown

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

Charles Brockden Brown

Ormond; or, The Secret Witness

Charles Brockden Brown

St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

William Godwin

The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie

The Heroine

Eaton Stannard Barrett

The Devil's Elixir

E. T. A. Hoffmann

The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Uncanny Stories

May Sinclair

Tales of the Uneasy

Violet Hunt

Studies in Love and in Terror

Marie Belloc Lowndes

The Return of the Soul

Robert Hichens

The Mystery of Choice

Robert W. Chambers

The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories

Grant Allen

Lore of Proserpine

Maurice Hewlett

Sweet Rocket

Mary Johnston

The Gateless Barrier

Lucas Malet

The Wizard's Son

Mrs. Oliphant

Round the Fire Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle

Penelope Brandling

Vernon Lee

The Uninhabited House

J. H., Mrs. Riddell

Grim Tales

E. Nesbit

They Return at Evening

Herbert Russell Wakefield

The Shape of Fear

Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The Shadowy Third, and Other Stories

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough

Humorous Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough

Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others

John Kendrick Bangs

The Water Ghost and Others

John Kendrick Bangs

The Stoneground Ghost Tales

E. G. Swain

The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock

Walter Scott

Wandering Ghosts

F. Marion Crawford

Man Overboard!

F. Marion Crawford

The Upper Berth; By the Waters of Paradise

F. Marion Crawford

The King's Messenger

F. Marion Crawford

A Book of Ghosts

S. Baring-Gould

Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

Ralph Adams Cram

Four Ghost Stories

Mrs. Molesworth

Tales for Christmas Eve

Rhoda Broughton

Border Ghost Stories

Howard Pease

The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, and Other Stories

Florence Marryat

The Other World

Frank Frankfort Moore

All Men Are Ghosts

L. P. Jacks

The Haunters & The Haunted

Ernest Rhys

Great Ghost Stories

Joseph Lewis French

The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories

Julian Hawthorne

Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories

Joseph Lewis French

Told After Supper

Jerome K. Jerome

True Irish Ghost Stories

St. John D. Seymour

Scottish Ghost Stories

Elliott O'Donnell

St. Andrews Ghost Stories

William Thomas Linskill

Indian Ghost Stories

S. Mukerji

Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures

Songling Pu

Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance

Richard Francis, Sir Burton

The Bravo of Venice: A Romance

Heinrich Zschokke

At the Ghost Hour: The House of the Unbelieving Thomas

Paul Heyse

Our Lady of the Pillar

Eça de Queirós

The House of the Secret

Claude Farrère

The Living Mummy

Ambrose Pratt

The Mummy and Miss Nitocris

George Chetwynd Griffith

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

T. Smollett

Alonzo and Melissa; or, The Unfeeling Father

I. Mitchell

The Children of the Abbey

Regina Maria Roche

Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle

Charlotte Smith

Barford Abbey

Mrs. Gunning

Anna St. Ives

Thomas Holcroft

The Castle of Ehrenstein

G. P. R. James

Glenarvon

Caroline, Lady Lamb

St. Martin's Eve

Henry, Mrs. Wood

Rutledge

Miriam Coles Harris

Gaston de Blondeville

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath

Ben Hecht

The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas

Mayne Reid

The Golgotha Dancers

Manly Wade Wellman

Fearful Rock

Manly Wade Wellman

The Hairy Ones Shall Dance

Manly Wade Wellman

The Black Drama

Manly Wade Wellman

The Secret of Kralitz

Henry Kuttner

The Salem Horror

Henry Kuttner

The Eater of Souls

Henry Kuttner

The Black Kiss

Robert Bloch

Doom of the House of Duryea

Earl Peirce

The Thing in the Woods

Harper Williams

The Night Wire

H. F. Arnold

Pledged to the Dead

Seabury Quinn

Chalk Face

Waldo David Frank

The Medici Boots

Pearl Norton Swet

Tiger Cat

David H. Keller

The Dangerous Scarecrow

Carl Jacobi

The Scarecrow, and Other Stories

G. Ranger Wormser

Tales of Terror

Dick Donovan

Phantom of the Forest

Leroy Yerxa

The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh

H. Sivia

The Lost Door

Dorothy Quick

Ring Once for Death

Robert Arthur

Brown John's Body

Winston K. Marks

The Doors of Death

Arthur B. Waltermire

The Diary of Philip Westerly

Paul Compton

In the Dark

Dale Clark

The Long Arm

Franz Nabl

The Life-Eater

Harold Ward

Murder Mask

Edgar Daniel Kramer

The Horror in the Burying-Ground

Hazel Heald

The Mark of the Monster

Jack Williamson

Scream at Midnight

Joseph Payne Brennan

The Last Test

Adolphe Danziger

The Carnal God

John R. Speer

The Story Hunter

Ernest R. Suffling

Loup-Garou

Wallace West

Listen, Children ... Listen!

Wallace West

The Feast of Bacchus

Ernest G. Henham

A Young Man's Story

Sarah Doudney

The Spring Song

Forrest Reid

Flowering Evil

Margaret St. Clair

The Most Horrible Story

John Jakes

Isle of the Undead

Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

The Life-Masters

Edmond Hamilton

The Huntress

Richard Rein Smith

The Nobles Are Coming

Arthur Jean Cox

There Is a Reaper ...

Charles V. De Vet

The Invaders

Benjamin Ferris

The Monster

S. M. Tenneshaw

A Voice from the Inner World

A. Hyatt Verrill

The Man Who Was Pale

Jack Sharkey

Don't Think About It

William W. Stuart

The Marrying Monster

Claus Stamm

Cold Ghost

Chester S. Geier

Each Man Kills

Victoria Glad

The White Feather Hex

Don Peterson

Old Mr. Wiley

Greye La Spina

The Gray Nun

Nataly von Eschstruth

The Phantom of Bogue Holauba

Charles Egbert Craddock

The Roll-Call of the Reef

Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Sociable Ghost

Olive Harper

The Ghost of Guir House

Charles Willing Beale

The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

Arnold Bennett

The Ghost Ship

Richard Middleton

Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye

Arthur Gray

Ghost Beyond the Gate

Mildred A. Wirt

Life Blood

Thomas Hoover

To Let

B. M. Croker

The Strange Visitation

Marie Corelli

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

W. Bob Holland

The Queen of the Isle

May Agnes Fleming

Flower and Jewel; or, Daisy Forrest's Daughter

Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Miller

Her Dark Inheritance

E. Burke, Mrs. Collins

The Ghost in the Tower: An Episode in Jacobia

Earl H. Reed

A Haunted Life

James Grant

The Monkey's Paw

W. W. Jacobs

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg

Mosses from an old manse

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

The Book of Were-Wolves

S. Baring-Gould

Vampires and Vampirism

Dudley Wright

Real Ghost Stories

W. T. Stead

Mary Schweidler, the amber witch

Wilhelm Meinhold

Satan's Diary

Leonid Andreyev

A mirror for witches

Esther Forbes

Delusion; or, The Witch of New England

Eliza Buckminster Lee

The Witch

Mary Johnston

Rachel Dyer

John Neal

Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas

Catherine Crowe

The Return of Peter Grimm

David Belasco

Other Tales and Sketches

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Devil Stories: An Anthology

Maximilian J. Rudwin

The Sorcery Club

Elliott O'Donnell

A Deal with the Devil

Eden Phillpotts

Asmodeus; or, The Devil on Two Sticks

Alain René Le Sage

The Wolf Demon; or, The Queen of the Kanawha

Albert W. Aiken

Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile

John Kendrick Bangs

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

The History of Caliph Vathek

William Beckford

In the Closed Room

Frances Hodgson Burnett

An Old Woman's Tale

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

Andrew Lang

Within the Temple of Isis

Belle M. Wagner

Werwolves

Elliott O'Donnell

Satan and the Comrades

Ralph Bennitt

The ghosts of their ancestors

Weymer Jay Mills

Out of the Air

Inez Haynes Gillmore

Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites

John Netten Radcliffe

Copper Coleson's Ghost

Edward P. Hendrick

The Chariot of the Flesh

Hedley Peek

Twilight

Julia Frankau

Death and Taxes

H. A. Hartzell

An Adventure

C. A. E. Moberly

To Sup With the Devil

Myron I. Scholnick

Damned

E. S. Dorrance

The Battle of the Bells

Jerome Bixby

The Ghost in the Red Shirt

B. M. Bower

The dead tryst

James Grant

Devil tales

Virginia Frazer Boyle

Agar Halfi the mystic

Roland Filkin

Things near & far

Arthur Machen

Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are

William Godwin

The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

Edith Birkhead

Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

Elliott O'Donnell

Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem

Henry Peterson

The Devil: A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience

Joseph O'Brien

The Witch of Salem; or, Credulity Run Mad

John R. Musick

Apparitions

Joseph Taylor

Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth.

John Uri Lloyd

A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance

Fergus Hume

With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft

Howard Roger Garis

The Devil's Motor: A Fantasy

Marie Corelli

Ye Lyttle Salem Maide: A Story of Witchcraft

Pauline Bradford Mackie

The Salem Belle: A Tale of 1692

Ebenezer Wheelwright

When a witch is young: a historical novel

Philip Verrill Mighels

The phantom tracker; or, The prisoner of the hill cave

Frederick H. Dewey

The skeleton scout; or, The border block

Albert W. Aiken

Ghosts in the Great War, and true tales of haunted houses

S. Louis Giraud