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Horror — 101 PDFs & ePubs
101 classic horror books · free in PDF & EPUB
Every horror book on this shelf is in the public domain and free to download in PDF or EPUB — or to read online, no sign-up required. This is where the genre was invented: the gothic castles of Walpole, the vampires of Le Fanu and Stoker, Shelley's creature, and the quiet English ghost stories that still outscare most modern fiction.
New to classic horror? The short stories are the fastest door in — Carmilla or The Willows take an evening. If you want the full novel experience, Dracula and Frankenstein remain the twin pillars, and both read far stranger and sharper than their movie versions.
New to horror? Start here
Dracula
Told in letters, diaries and newspaper clippings, it still reads like found footage — a century before found footage existed.
Masters of horror
The authors who built the genre — all their books free in the library.
All horror books
101 books, sorted however you like.
A Descent into the Maelström
A Sicilian Romance
At the Mountains of Madness
Berenice
Black Hound of Death
Carmilla
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
Cool Air
Dagon
Dig me no grave
Dracula
Dracula's Guest
A hidden gem from this shelf
The Night Land
A dying-earth epic of watchtowers, abyssal things, and love that crosses impossible dark.
Eleonora
Frankenstein
From Beyond
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Herbert West-Reanimator
Hop Frog
I'll Kill You Tomorrow
John Silence Stories
Kerfol
Ligeia
Markheim
Morella
Pickman's Model
Shadow: A Parable
The Black Cat
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"
The Body Snatcher
The Call of Cthulhu
The Canterville Ghost
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Cask of Amontillado
The Cats of Ulthar
The colour out of space
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Dunwich Horror
The empty house
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Festival
The Ghost Pirates
The Hanging Stranger
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
The Haunter of the Dark
The Horror at Red Hook
The House by the Churchyard
The House on the Borderland
The Hungry Stones
The Hyena
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Jewel of Seven Stars
The Judge's House
The King in Yellow
The Lady of the Barge
The Lair of the White Worm
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Lifted Veil
The Lurking Fear
The Man of the Crowd
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
The Masque of the Red Death
The Minister's Black Veil
The Monkey's Paw
The Mortal Immortal
The Music of Erich Zann
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Nameless City
The Night Land
The Oblong Box
The Outsider
The Oval Portrait
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Rats in the Walls
The Red Room
The Shadow Out of Time
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shunned House
The Silver Key
The Slayer of Souls
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Toll-House
The Tomb
The Turn of the Screw
The Vampire Maid
The Well
The Wendigo
The Whisperer in Darkness
The willows
The Wolf-Leader
The Yellow Wallpaper
William Wilson