Horror Books of the 1890s
The 38 most-read horror books first published between 1890 and 1899, led by The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Dracula (1897) and The Yellow Wallpaper (1892).
This list collects 38 books from the 1890s by 28 authors, published between 1890 and 1899. 7 are free to read and 23 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aric Cushing
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The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
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The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen
The Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells
Bram Stoker's Dracula omnibus
Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley
Dracula / Sign of Four
Anne Collins, Margaret Tarner
The Beetle. A Mystery
Richard Marsh
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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Andrew Lang
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling
Pharos
Guy Boothby
The three impostors or The transmutations
Arthur Machen
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Way It Came
Henry James
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Octave of Claudius
Barry Pain
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Itinerant House, and Other Stories
Emma Frances Dawson
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Book of Bargains
Vincent O'Sullivan
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Loup-garou!
Eden Phillpotts
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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 2: The Mesmerist's Victim
Alexandre Dumas
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Lot No. 249
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Studies of Death
Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
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Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain
John Henry Ingram
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Tales and Stories
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Little Room and Other Stories
Madeline Wynne
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Three Supernatural Stories
Wilhelmina FitzClarence
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Flight of the Shadow
Laura M. Dake
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Dream Tales and Prose Poems
Ivan Turgenev
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New Ghost Stories
Lettice Galbraith
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Bladys of the Stewponey
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Sir Edmund Orme
Henry James
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde
Poe (Assignation / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Ms Found in a Bottle)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume I - Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque I
Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman
The gold bug, The purloined letter, and other tales (Eleonora / Gold-Bug / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
![Cover of The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe together with a selection from his stories [4 stories, 45 poems]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11728408-M.jpg?default=false)
The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe together with a selection from his stories [4 stories, 45 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
![Cover of Poems and Tales from the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe [8 stories, 8 poems]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11726673-M.jpg?default=false)
Poems and Tales from the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe [8 stories, 8 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, William Peterfield Trent
Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)
Edgar Allan Poe