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Horror — 107 PDFs & ePubs
107 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
75 of 107 books match this length.
A Descent into the Maelström
Berenice
Beyond the Door
Black Hound of Death
Carmilla
Cool Air
Dagon
Dig me no grave
Eleonora
From Beyond
Herbert West-Reanimator
Hop Frog
A hidden gem from this shelf
Shadow: A Parable
A candlelit room, a plague outside, and a presence that may be grief itself.
I'll Kill You Tomorrow
Kerfol
Ligeia
Markheim
Morella
Pickman's Model
Shadow: A Parable
The Black Cat
The Body Snatcher
The Call of Cthulhu
The Canterville Ghost
The Cask of Amontillado
The Cats of Ulthar
The colour out of space
The Decapitated Chicken
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Dunwich Horror
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Feather Pillow
The Festival
The Hanging Stranger
The Haunter of the Dark
The Horror at Red Hook
The Hound
The Hyena
The Imp of the Perverse
The Judge's House
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 Nameless City
The Oblong Box
The Outsider
The Oval Portrait
The Picture in the House
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Rats in the Walls
The Red Room
The Shunned House
The Silver Key
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 Vampire Maid
The Vampyre
The Well
The Wendigo
The willows
The Yellow Wallpaper
William Wilson