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Authenticated History of the Bell Witch
Martin V. Ingram
23 days •
ⓘ 1894 • An account of the haunting of a family in early 19th century Tennessee. One of the most famous creepy American folk stories.
The Body Snatcher
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 days •
ⓘ 1884 • A chilling short story of medical students driven to horrifying acts in a need for bodies for dissection.
The Book of Were-wolves
Sabine Baring-Gould
17 days •
ⓘ 1865 • A study on lycanthropy blending folklore, history, and myth.
Brood of the Witch-Queen
Sax Rohmer
20 days •
ⓘ 1918 • Robert Cairn and his father race against time, from London to the pyramids of Egypt, to stop horrific murders and suspected dark magic.
The Call of Cthulhu
H.P. Lovecraft
5 days •
ⓘ 1926 • Notes from his granduncle put Francis Wayland Thurston on the trail of a dangerous cult and something far more hideous in the depths of the ocean.
The Captain of the Pole-Star
Arthur Conan Doyle
4 days •
ⓘ 1895 • In search of better catches, the captain of the fishing boat Polestar heads north - perhaps too far north - in this chilling tale.
Carmilla
J. Sheridan LeFanu
12 days •
ⓘ 1871 • A classic Victorian vampire novella, predating Dracula by more than 25 years.
The Damned Thing
Ambrose Bierce
2 days •
ⓘ 1898 • A man lies dead, and the only witness to his death is believed to be insane. But both he and the dead man's diary point to a culprit beyond the natural world.
The Death of Halpin Frayser
Ambrose Bierce
2 days •
ⓘ 1891 • Halpin Frayser dreams of hideous things, including spectres of his past. But it's only a dream... right?
Demonology and Devil-lore
Moncure Daniel Conway
83 days •
ⓘ 1879 • Pulling together a multitude of medieval and biblical sources, Conway explores the manifestations and actions of demons.
Dracula
Bram Stoker
54 days •
ⓘ 1897 • A mysterious Count from Transylvania seeks to enter England. Only a small group, led by Professor Van Helsing, stand in his way.
Edward Randolph's Portrait
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2 days •
ⓘ 1837 • From the depths of colonial past, a hated and cursed man comes to haunt the ill-fated Governor Hutchinson before the Revolution.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
3 days •
ⓘ 1839 • Roderick Usher's sister has died, leaving him alone in the eerie family home. His friend arrives to keep him company but still a sense of impending doom hangs over the House of Usher.
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
28 days •
ⓘ 1818 • Daring young scientist Victor Frankenstein creates life... and a monster. Death and the creature pursue him from Geneva to Scotland to the very edges of the known world.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
M.R. James
17 days •
ⓘ 1904 • In quiet rural settings, dark and unsettling supernatural forces are at work. A collection of spooky ghost stories.
The Haunted Hotel
Wilkie Collins
26 days •
ⓘ 1879 • A palace, refurbished as a hotel, haunts its guests with glimpses of its tragic and frightening past.
Hauntings
Vernon Lee
16 days •
ⓘ 1890 • British author Violet Paget's atmospheric supernatural stories of passion, possession, and psychological terror.
Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters
H. Addington Bruce
14 days •
ⓘ 1908 • An investigation into many hauntings and ghost stories with a skeptic's eye.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
24 days •
ⓘ 1902 • A diabolical hell hound has leapt out of legends to ravage the moors in England's West Country. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson dive in to protect the remaining Baskerville heir.
The House of the Vampire
George Sylvester Viereck
9 days •
ⓘ 1907 • A classic Victorian gothic horror story, one of the first to include vampires that do more than feed off blood.
The Inmost Light
Arthur Machen
4 days •
ⓘ 1894 • A scientist's dangerous experiments entangle his wife and put her very soul at risk.
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
28 days •
ⓘ 1895 • A classic of weird and supernatural fiction, this collection of stories traces the mysterious forbidden play "The King in Yellow" and the trail of madness, despair, and death it leaves behind.
The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker
24 days •
ⓘ 1911 • Adam Salton arrives in England from Australia to find strange horrors and mysteries: mesmeric attacks, giant kites, murder, and all the while a great evil slithers beneath the ground.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
5 days •
ⓘ 1820 • In the dreamy town of Sleepy Hollow, ghosts haunt the woods, Native American bewitchments hang over the land, and a cloaked rider waits for Ichabod Crane.
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
16 days •
ⓘ 1926 • Stifled by her family and the duties expected of a woman, Lolly Willowes shockingly moves alone to the countryside where a life of witchcraft awaits.
The Maker of Gargoyles
Clark Ashton Smith
2 days •
ⓘ 1932 • Stone creations of a troubled artist turn deadly in this chilling tale.
The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
Emile Erckmann
21 days •
ⓘ 1876 • A collection of supernatural stories from Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian, praised by Lovecraft and M.R. James.
A Mirror for Witches
Esther Forbes
14 days •
ⓘ 1928 • During the height of the Salem witch hunts, young Doll Bilby is accused and begins to doubt her innocence.
The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
2 days •
ⓘ 1902 • To the owner of the monkey's paw go three wishes, but also an enormous price.
Pickman's Model
H.P. Lovecraft
2 days •
ⓘ 1926 • Richard Upton Pickman's disturbing art, depicting fiendish creatures, hide an even more terrifying secret.
Poems
Edgar Allan Poe
18 days •
ⓘ 1845 • Collected poetry of Edgar Allan Poe including The Raven, The Sleeper, Lenore, The Conqueror Worm, and others.
The Shadowy Third
Ellen Glasgow
20 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A collection of spooky stories filled with ghosts - or are they hallucinations? - hauntings of the past, and revenge.
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
15 days •
ⓘ 1843 • A collection of stories by Poe including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Premature Burial and more.
Ten Days in a Mad-House
Nellie Bly
10 days •
ⓘ 1887 • The result of an undercover investigation into the brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.
Three Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
8 days •
ⓘ 1868 • A collection of spooky tales including the famous short story "The Signal-Man", "The Trial for Murder" and "The Haunted House"
The Three Impostors
Arthur Machen
22 days •
ⓘ 1895 • An episodic novel of weird and horror tales, culminating in a deadly horror. Linking each story is a secretive pagan society who weave a web of deception through London.
Visible and Invisible
E.F. Benson
24 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A collection of ghostly supernatural stories from one of the medium's masters.
Wandering Ghosts
F. Marion Crawford
23 days •
ⓘ 1903 • A collection of supernatural tales including the chilling stories "The Upper Berth" and "The Screaming Skull."
The Wendigo
Algernon Blackwood
7 days •
ⓘ 1910 • Journey to the lonely Canadian wilderness where old trappers whisper of something in the woods, a beast that moves with lightning quickness and calls out to you in the dark of night.
The Whisperer in Darkness
H.P. Lovecraft
10 days •
ⓘ 1931 • In the depths of Vermont's primordial forests, strange creatures out of myth appear. One isolated man believes he has proof of these monsters' existence, but can he survive to tell the world?
The Willows
Algernon Blackwood
8 days •
ⓘ 1907 • Along the banks of the Danube, on one of the shifting impermanent islands of sand, willows blow in the unceasing wind. And one can glimpse dangerous, unforgettable beings in the night.
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