Horror

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era blend of science‑fiction and horror, set in a fog‑shrouded London where a lawyer…

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow is a late‑nineteenth‑century American collection of short stories that blends speculative…

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a series of journal entries from the English solicitor…

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis is a work of psychological fiction that begins with a startling, almost clinical description of…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, fantasy fiction, and horror tales, all rooted in…

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The opening places us in a cramped Victorian drawing‑room where a group of acquaintances huddle around a…

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

The collection opens with a richly detailed, first‑person recounting of a storm‑laden night in a grand…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume gathers the fantasy‑inflected horror and detective stories that have made Edgar Allan Poe a…

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era psychological thriller that blends science‑fiction speculation with gothic…

The Shunned House

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shunned House is a horror tale set in nineteenth‑century New England, opening with a richly detailed…

The Great God Pan

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen’s tale unfolds as a slow‑burning horror, beginning with a quiet, almost pastoral conversation…

The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce’s “The Damned Thing,” first published in 1898 as part of his collection *In the Midst of…

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla is a Gothic novella that blends the conventions of young‑women fiction with a chilling vampire tale.

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson

The House on the Borderland is a speculative adventure that begins with a disorienting, almost dream‑like…

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M. R. James

M. R. James’s Ghost Stories of an Antiquary gathers together a handful of his celebrated English horror…

The House of Souls

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen’s “The House of Souls” is a self‑reflective essay that traces the author’s uneasy shift from a…

The Vampyre; a Tale

John William Polidori

The work is a Gothic horror tale that begins with a long, rambling travelogue through the lakeside region of…

The Trial

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka’s *The Trial* is an allegorical work that plunges the reader straight into an absurd, nightmarish…

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

The piece is a Civil‑War‑era short story that opens with a stark tableau on a northern Alabama railroad…

The Wendigo

Algernon Blackwood

Dracula's Guest

Bram Stoker

The Willows

Algernon Blackwood

Varney the vampyre; Or, the Feast of Blood

Prest, Thomas Peckett; Rymer, James Malcolm

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4

Edgar Allan Poe