Horror Books

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

H. P. Lovecraft

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short horror novel by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime...

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine. In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Mac..

The Parenticide Club

Ambrose Bierce

The Parenticide Club is a collection of horror tales written by Ambrose Bierce, an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. Bierce's book The Devil's Dictionary ..

The Willows

Algernon Blackwood

The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has bee..

The Parasite - A Story

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Parasite is an 1894 novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Parasite makes use of a form of mind control similar to the mesmerism of the Victorian era; it works on some hosts but not others.The m..

The Lost Stradivarius

John Meade Falkner

The Lost Stradivarius, by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin..

Le Horror Altissime

Arthur Conan Doyle

Le idea que le narration extraordinari, appellate le "Fragmento Joyce-Armstrong", es un "joco practic" extensive — tunc create per un humano incognite con un humorismo perverse e sinistre — ha nunc es..

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years. First published in 1872, it ..