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 marrying monster
Claus Stamm · short story
The story in one page
The Masque of the Red Death
A prince attempts to outrun a fatal pandemic by welding his doors shut and throwing a very expensive party.
Edgar Allan Poe · short story
In the library
The Medici Boots
Pearl Norton Swet · short story
In the library
The Mercer Boys in the Ghost Patrol
Capwell Wyckoff · novel
The story in one page
The Monk: A Romance
A celebrated monk breaks every vow for a demon in disguise, leading to a family reunion in the catacombs.
M. G. Lewis · novel
The story in one page
The Monkey's Paw
An old soldier brings a mummified paw to tea, turning a modest mortgage payment into a domestic horror story.
W. W. Jacobs · short story
In the library
The Monster
S. M. Tenneshaw · novel
In the library
The Moon of Skulls
Robert E. Howard · novel
In the library
The Most Horrible Story
John Jakes · short story
In the library
The mummy and Miss Nitocris : a phantasy of the fourth dimension
George Chetwynd Griffith · novel
In the library
The Mummy's Foot
Théophile Gautier · short story
The story in one page
The Mysteries of Udolpho
An orphan girl inherits a castle and a guardian who treats hospitality like a hostage negotiation.
Ann Ward Radcliffe · novel
In the library
The Mystery Hunters at the Haunted Lodge
Capwell Wyckoff · novel
In the library
The Mystery of Choice
Robert W. Chambers · short story
In the library
The Mystery of Jockey Hollow
Cleo F. Garis · novel
In the library
The Night Land
William Hope Hodgson · novel
In the library
The night wire
H. F. Arnold · short story
In the library
The nobles are coming
Arthur Jean Cox · short story
In the library
The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story
Clara Reeve · novel
In the library
The Other World
Frank Frankfort Moore · short story
In the library
The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 1 of 2)
Frederick George Lee · ideas
In the library
The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. 2 of 2)
Frederick George Lee · myth
In the library
The Parasite: A Story
Arthur Conan Doyle · novel
In the library
The Parenticide Club
Ambrose Bierce · short story
The story in one page
The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
Two vagabonds claim a kingdom, a traveler finds a village of the dead, and the colonial heat breeds restless ghosts.
Rudyard Kipling · collection
In the library
The phantom of Bogue Holauba
Charles Egbert Craddock · short story
The story in one page
The Phantom of the Opera
The Opera House has a phantom, a basement lake, and an employee who refuses to retire.
Gaston Leroux · novel
In the library
The Phantom Ship
Frederick Marryat · novel
In the library
The Phantom Town Mystery
Carol Norton · novel
In the library
The phantom tracker; or, The prisoner of the hill cave
Frederick H. Dewey · novel
In the library
The Phantom Treasure
Harriet Pyne Grove · novel
In the library
The picture in the house
H. P. Lovecraft · short story
The story in one page
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A young socialite stays perpetually beautiful while his oil portrait pays for his sins in wrinkles and rot.
Oscar Wilde · novel
In the library
The Poor Clare
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · novel
In the library
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg · novel
In the library
The queen of the isle
May Agnes Fleming · novel
In the library
The Return
Walter De la Mare · novel
In the library
The Return Of The Soul
Robert Hichens · novel
In the library
The Revealing Pattern
Alvin Heiner · short story
In the library
The Roll-Call Of The Reef
Arthur Quiller-Couch · short story
In the library
The Romance of the Forest, interspersed with some pieces of poetry.
Ann Ward Radcliffe · novel
In the library
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · novel
In the library
The room in the tower, and other stories
E. F. Benson · short story
In the library
The Salem horror
Henry Kuttner · short story
In the library
The Scarecrow, and Other Stories
G. Ranger Wormser · short story
In the library
The Secret of Kralitz
Henry Kuttner · short story
In the library
The shadow over Innsmouth
H. P. Lovecraft · novel
In the library
The Shadowy Third, and Other Stories
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow · short story