Horror Books of the 1900s
The 65 most-read horror books first published between 1900 and 1909, led by The Jewel of Seven Stars (1902), The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes (1903) and The Magician (1908).
This list collects 65 books from the 1900s by 37 authors, published between 1900 and 1909. 12 are free to read and 37 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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The Jewel of Seven Stars
Bram Stoker
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Magician
William Somerset Maugham
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Montague Rhodes James
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes - Volume One (Balloon-Hoax / Four Beasts in One / Gold-Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oval Portrait / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall)
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood
Semilla del Diablo
Ira Levin
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The Hill of Dreams
Arthur Machen
House Of The Vampire, The
George Sylvester Viereck
The Bad Place
Dean Koontz
Ruby
V.C. Andrews
The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
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The House of Souls
Arthur Machen
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The Purple Cloud
M. P. Shiel, J. J. Cameron
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes - Volume Five
Edgar Allan Poe
The Prestige
Christopher Priest
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories]
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Necromancers
Robert Hugh Benson
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John Silence
Algernon Blackwood
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The Ghost Pirates
William Hope Hodgson
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Selections From Poe [6 stories, 35 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, John Montgomery Gambrill
American Short Stories
Charles Sears Baldwin, Washington Irving
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White People
Arthur Machen
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Tongues of Conscience
Robert Smythe Hichens
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Afterward
Edith Wharton
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Seen and the Unseen
Richard Marsh
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Goddess: A Demon
Richard Marsh
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Stories in the Dark
Barry Pain
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Castle of the Carpathians
Jules Verne
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Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science
George Griffith
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Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
Richard Gordon Smith
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Unprofessional Tales
Norman Douglas
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Two Supernatural Stories
Perceval Landon
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The Vampire Nemesis and Other Weird Tales of the China Coast
Dolly
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Moon-Face and Other Stories
Jack London
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Little Stories
Silas Weir Mitchell
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Red Laugh
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
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Ghost Hunters
Allen Upward
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Human Affairs
Vincent O'Sullivan
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Shadow of the Unseen
James Blyth, Barry Pain
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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4
Various
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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1
Various
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Vampire
Luigi Capuana
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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2
Various
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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3
Various
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Pocket Island
Charles Clark Munn
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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5
Various
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House by the Lock
Alice Muriel Williamson
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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6
Various
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Don Juan In Hell
George Bernard Shaw
Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Tales (Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Diddling / Gold-Bug / Mesmeric Revelation / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oblong Box / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Spectacles / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Gold-Bug and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales (Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Gold Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum)
Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories (Assignation / Berenice / Domain of Arnheim / Eleonora / Landor's Cottage / Ligeia / Metzengerstein / Morella / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
Mystery Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume Seven - Tales-Fantasy and Extravaganza
Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Tales - Volume I
Edgar Allan Poe
The Best American Tales
William Peterfield Trent, Washington Irving
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume IV - Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume Six - Tales-Horror and Death (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Morella / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Shadow / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Tales - Volume I (Assignation / Berenice / Bon-Bon / Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Descent into the Maelstrom / Devil in the Belfry / Duc De L'Omelette / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / How to Write a Blackwood Article / King Pest / Ligeia / Lionizing / Loss of Breath / Man That Was Used Up / Metzengerstein / Morella / MS. Found in a Bottle / Predicament / Shadow / Silence / Tale of Jerusalem / Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Tales - Volume II
Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery
Edgar Allan Poe