Horror Books of the 1880s
The 21 most-read horror books first published between 1880 and 1889, led by The house of the Wolfings (1889), The Odd Number (1889) and The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories (1880).
This list collects 21 books from the 1880s by 19 authors, published between 1880 and 1889. 1 is free to read and 18 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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The house of the Wolfings
William Morris
The Odd Number
Guy de Maupassant
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The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories
Rosa Mulholland
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Shrine of Death and Other Stories
Emilia Francis, Lady Dilke
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David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales
Julian Hawthorne
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Idle Tales
Charlotte Riddell
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Mystery of the Campagna
Anne Crawford
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Diamond Lens with Other Stories
Fitz-James O'Brien
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Strange Stories
Alexandre Chatrian, Émile Erckmann
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Wizard's Son, Volume 1
Margaret O. Oliphant
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Wizard's Son Volume 3
Margaret O. Oliphant
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Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
John Charles Dent
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Mystery of a Turkish Bath
Rita
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Olalla
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Phantom Lover
Vernon Lee
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Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches
William Clark Russell
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Douglas Duane
Edgar Fawcett
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Corsican Brothers
Alexandre Dumas
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Weird Tales
E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Fall of the House of Usher, and Other Tales and Prose Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Rhys
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The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe [4 stories, 43 poems, 1 essay]
Edgar Allan Poe