Books: What to Know
Horror & Gothic
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
The library
421 horror & gothic
In the library
The colour out of space
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
In the library
The curse of Yig
Zealia B. Bishop · short story
In the library
The Damned
Algernon Blackwood · novel
The story in one page
The Damned Thing
An invisible predator stalks the wilderness, but the jury is only interested in your sanity.
Ambrose Bierce · short story
In the library
The Dangerous Scarecrow
Carl Jacobi · short story
In the library
The Dark Other
Stanley G. Weinbaum · novel
In the library
The Dead Secret: A Novel
Wilkie Collins · novel
In the library
The dead tryst
James Grant · novel
In the library
The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 1 (of 2)
E. T. A. Hoffmann · novel
In the library
The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 2 (of 2)
E. T. A. Hoffmann · novel
In the library
The Diary of Philip Westerly
Paul Compton · short story
In the library
The Doom of the Griffiths
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · novel
In the library
The Doors of Death
Arthur B. Waltermire · short story
In the library
The dream snake
Robert E. Howard · short story
The story in one page
The Dunwich horror
A boy grows fast, hides his twin in the attic, and everything goes wrong.
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
In the library
The eater of souls
Henry Kuttner · short story
The story in one page
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
A law student, a secretary, and several medical students encounter spectral visitors in isolated cabins and drafty city rentals.
Algernon Blackwood · collection
In the library
The Evil Guest
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · novel
The story in one page
The Fall of the House of Usher
An old friend visits a crumbling estate where the architecture is as unstable as the family’s sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe · short story
In the library
The fearsome touch of death
Robert E. Howard · short story
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The feast of Bacchus
Ernest G. Henham · novel
In the library
The festival
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
In the library
The fire of Asshurbanipal
Robert E. Howard · short story
In the library
The Garden of Survival
Algernon Blackwood · novel
In the library
The Gateless Barrier
Lucas Malet · novel
In the library
The Ghost in the Red Shirt
B. M. Bower · short story
In the library
The Ghost in the Tower: An Episode in Jacobia
Earl H. Reed · novel
In the library
The ghost of Charlotte Cray, and other stories
Florence Marryat · short story
In the library
The Ghost of Guir House
Charles Willing Beale · novel
In the library
The Ghost of Mystery Airport
Van Powell · novel
In the library
The Ghost of One Man Coulee
B. M. Bower · short story
In the library
The Ghost Pirates
William Hope Hodgson · novel
In the library
The Ghost Ship
Richard Middleton · short story
In the library
The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny
Friedrich Schiller · novel
In the library
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy
Arnold Bennett · novel
In the library
The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House
Ross Kay · novel
In the library
The Golden Boys Along the River Allagash
L. P. Wyman · novel
In the library
The Golden Boys at the Haunted Camp
L. P. Wyman · novel
In the library
The Golgotha Dancers
Manly Wade Wellman · short story
In the library
The Gospels in the Second Century
W. Sanday · ideas
In the library
The Graveyard Rats
Henry Kuttner · short story
In the library
The Gray Nun
Nataly von Eschstruth · short story
The story in one page
The Great God Pan
A doctor performs brain surgery to grant a glimpse of reality. Reality refuses to be polite.
Arthur Machen · novel
In the library
The grisly horror
Robert E. Howard · short story
In the library
The hairy ones shall dance
Manly Wade Wellman · novel
In the library
The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · novel
In the library
The haunted house
Hilaire Belloc · novel
In the library
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Charles Dickens · novel