Horror Books of the 1910s
The 54 most-read horror books first published between 1910 and 1919, led by Le fantôme de l'opéra (1911), The Black Cat (1914) and The Haunted Bookshop (1919).
This list collects 54 books from the 1910s by 36 authors, published between 1910 and 1919. 5 are free to read and 41 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.

Le fantôme de l'opéra
Gaston Leroux

The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe

The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley
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The Eye of Osiris
R. Austin Freeman
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The Centaur
Algernon Blackwood
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The Human Chord
Algernon Blackwood
- FREE🎧

The Return
Walter De la Mare
- FREE🎧

The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker
- FREE🎧

The Sorcery Club
Elliott O'Donnell

True Irish Ghost Stories
St. John D. Seymour, Harry L. Neligan
- FREE

Scottish Ghost Stories
Elliott O'Donnell
- FREE🎧

The Best Ghost Stories
Daniel Defoe, Montague Rhodes James

Krysař
Viktor Dyk

Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century)
Walker, Hugh, Sir Walter Scott

A Book of Short Stories
Stuart Pratt Sherman, Washington Irving
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Citadel of Fear
Francis Stevens
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Flaw in the Crystal
May Sinclair
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Conqueror Worm
Edgar Allan Poe
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Exchange of Souls
Barry Pain
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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
William Drake Westervelt
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Light Invisible
Robert Hugh Benson
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Mirror Of Shalott
Robert Hugh Benson
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Here and Hereafter
Barry Pain
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30 Ghost Stories
Various
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Lost Valley
Algernon Blackwood
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Ten Minute Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Man with the Black Feather
Gaston Leroux
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Listener and Other Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Dormant
E. Nesbit
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Labyrinth
Francis Stevens
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Thrill Book Vol. I No. 3, April 1, 1919
J. Hampton Bishop, Susan Carleton
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Lady of the Barge
W. W. Jacobs
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Mantle and Other Stories
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
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Grim Thirteen
Various
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Thrill Book Vol. I No. 4, April 15, 1919
Clarence Leroy Andrews, George C. Hull
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Irtonwood Ghost
Elinor Glyn
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Sinister House
Leland Hall
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Thrill Book Vol. I No. 5, May 1, 1919
Frederick Booth, Harold Hersey
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Thrill Book Vol. I No. 6, May 15, 1919
P. A. Connolly, Harcourt Farmer
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Thrill Book Vol. I No. 7, June 1, 1919
P. A. Connolly, John Russell Coryell
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Thrill Book Vol. I No. 8, June 15, 1919
Will Gage Carey, John Russell Coryell
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Pan's Garden, a Volume of Nature Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Thrill Book Vol. II No. 1, July 1, 1919
Clarence Leroy Andrews, Christopher Bannister
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Thrill Book Vol. II No. 2, July 15, 1919
R. Ray Baker, H. Bedford-Jones
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Thrill Book Vol. II No. 3, August 1, 1919
Various
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Absolute Evil
Julian Hawthorne
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Fantastics and Other Fancies
Lafcadio Hearn
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Vandover and the Brute
Frank Norris
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King in Babylon
Burton Egbert Stevenson

A Study of the Short Story
Henry Seidel Canby, Henry S. Camby

Forty-Two Tales
Edgar Allan Poe

The Elements of the Short Story
Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Washington Irving
![Cover of Poems and Tales [12 stories, 16 poems]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11690587-M.jpg?default=false)
Poems and Tales [12 stories, 16 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, Paul, Harry Gilbert
![Cover of Selected Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe [5 stories, 22 poems]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11802900-M.jpg?default=false)
Selected Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe [5 stories, 22 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, Roscoe Gilmore Stott