Horror Books of the 1920s
The 59 most-read horror books first published between 1920 and 1929, led by Brood of the Witch-Queen (1924), Witch Wood (1927) and The Masque of the Red Death (1922).
This list collects 59 books from the 1920s by 52 authors, published between 1920 and 1929. 4 are free to read and 44 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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Brood of the Witch-Queen
Sax Rohmer
Witch Wood
John Buchan
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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
The Mist
Stephen King
The Talisman
Stephen King, Peter Straub
The Secret of the Old Mill
Leslie McFarlane, Tony Carpentieri
Web of Dreams
V.C. Andrews
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Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]
Ambrose Bierce
The House on the Cliff
Leslie McFarlane
Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries
Barrett Harper Clark, Barrett H. Clark
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The Dark Frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes
The Return
Rachel Harrison
The Invited
Jennifer McMahon
The Demon Lover
Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)
The Omnibus of Crime
Dorothy L. Sayers
Short Stories
Schweikert, Harry Christian, Schweikert
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Door of the Unreal
Gerald Biss
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Haunted Woman
David Lindsay
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Haunted Hour; an anthology
Margaret Widdemer
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Drums of Jeopardy
Harold MacGrath
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Ornaments in Jade
Arthur Machen
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Gargoyle
Greye La Spina
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Weird Tales Presents: The Strange World of Harry Houdini
Various
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Ebenezer's Casket
John Ulrich Giesy, Junius B. Smith
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Woman of the Wood
Abraham Merritt
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Tales of Terror
Various
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Whispering Tunnels
Stephen Bagby
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Tales of Mystery and Horror
Maurice Level
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Canal, and Leonora
Everil Worrell
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Man with a Thousand Legs
Frank Belknap Long
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Spoiler of Men
Richard Marsh
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Whistling Monsters
Bruce Wallis
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Closed Cabinet
Anonymous
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Smoking Leg and Other Stories
John Metcalfe
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Weird Tales Double Feature: The Shadows & The Projection of Armand Dubois
Henry S. Whitehead
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Weird Tales Double Feature: The Skull and The Bodymaster
Harold Ward
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Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu
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Moment of Time
Richard Hughes
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Night Fears and Other Stories
L. P. Hartley
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Weird Tales Double Feature: The Death Pit & In Kashla's Garden
Oscar Schisgall
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Jailer of Souls
Henry Hamilton Edmund Craigie
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Riddle and Other Stories
Walter De la Mare
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Space-Eaters
Frank Belknap Long
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Shining Pyramid: The Definitive Edition
Arthur Machen
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Weird Tales: Jules de Grandin Vol. 1
Seabury Quinn
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Ivan Brodsky, The Surgeon of Souls
Victor Rousseau
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Dark Chamber
Leonard Cline
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Men of the Deep Waters
William Hope Hodgson
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Purple Sapphire, and Other Posthumous Papers: Complete Edition
Christopher Blayre
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Lost Valley and Other Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Golem
Gustav Meyrink
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Undying Monster
Jessie Douglas Kerruish
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Shadowy Thing
H. B. Drake
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Blue Wound
Garet Garrett
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Suitor From The Shades
Greye La Spina
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Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series
Richard Harris Barham
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Treasure
Selma Lagerlöf
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Gray Phantom
Herman Landon
The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe