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The Tell-Tale Heart
A man insists he's sane. This does not go well.
Edgar Allan Poe · Short story
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Wuthering Heights
A foundling spends two generations dismantling two families to avenge a broken heart and a lost social standing.
Emily Brontë · novel
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
An orphan girl inherits a castle and a guardian who treats hospitality like a hostage negotiation.
Ann Ward Radcliffe · novel
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Dracula
A solicitor visits a client in the mountains, only to find the client has teeth.
Bram Stoker · novel
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The House of the Seven Gables
An ancestral curse requires blood to drink, but the Pyncheons settle for selling ginger-beer instead.
Nathaniel Hawthorne · novel
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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
A student builds a giant from old parts, abandons it, and spends the rest of his life being stalked by it.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · novel
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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
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Northanger Abbey
A girl gets invited to an old manor and promptly assumes everyone is a serial killer.
Jane Austen · novel
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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
A miser learns he is the villain of his own life after a series of supernatural home invasions.
Charles Dickens · novel
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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A doctor creates a chemical shortcut to immorality and finds the commute is impossible to stop.
Robert Louis Stevenson · novel
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Carmilla
A stranger moves in, refuses to leave, and treats the host like a midnight buffet.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · novel
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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
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The Castle of Otranto
A giant helmet crushes the heir, and the lord decides the best solution is marrying the fiancée.
Horace Walpole · novel
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Metamorphosis
A traveling salesman transforms into a giant insect, and his family is mostly just annoyed by his poor work attendance.
Franz Kafka · novel
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The King in Yellow
A stage play turns its readers into walking disasters. The city is just collateral damage.
Robert W. Chambers · collection
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They return at evening
A murderer mocks the law, a chess player faces a ghostly rival, and the dead refuse to remain quiet at evening.
Herbert Russell Wakefield · short-story
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Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
From murderous cats to phantom toes, twenty-five accounts of the supernatural range from the psychological to the suspiciously culinary.
W. Bob Holland · collection
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The call of Cthulhu
A man inherits a box of clippings and discovers the stars are finally aligning for a giant, gelatinous apocalypse.
H. P. Lovecraft · short-story
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
An antiquarian’s curiosity proves hazardous as long-dead monks, cursed ash trees, and forgotten whistles unleash specific, physical, and very angry spirits.
M. R. James · collection
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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
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The Shunned House
A century of tragedy in a cellar, until the narrator brings a carboy of acid.
H. P. Lovecraft · Short story
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The Damned Thing
An invisible predator stalks the wilderness, but the jury is only interested in your sanity.
Ambrose Bierce · Short story
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Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories
A collection of sleuths, secrets, and enough missing pages to fill a police report.
Joseph Lewis French · Collection
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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
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The Turn of the Screw
A governess protects two beautiful children from ghosts only she can see, until her protection becomes their greatest danger.
Henry James · novel
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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
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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
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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
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The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
A Fleet Street barber offers a very close shave while his neighbor sells the most popular, mysterious pies in London.
James Malcolm Rymer · novel
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The mark of the monster
A man returns to a rotting village to save his partner from a basement-dwelling horror.
Jack Williamson · Short story
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Tales of terror
Professional men encounter things that shouldn't exist, and things that certainly do.
Dick Donovan · Collection
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The thing in the woods
A young doctor takes a quiet summer job only to find a missing predecessor and a creature with steel claws.
Harper Williams · novel
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Mosses from an old manse
A man wanders his garden, stares at his reflection, and finds ghosts in the furniture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne · collection
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At the mountains of madness
A scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers that the continent’s original inhabitants are not extinct, just very, very irritable.
H. P. Lovecraft · novel