Horror Books of the 1940s
The 18 most-read horror books first published between 1940 and 1949, led by Stuart Little (1945), The House on the Borderland (1946) and The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris (1949).
This list collects 18 books from the 1940s by 15 authors, published between 1940 and 1949. 1 is free to read and 2 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
18 books
Stuart Little
E. B. White
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The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris
Shirley Jackson
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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
The Lurker at the Threshold
August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft
The Uninvited
Dorothy MacArdle
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
The Haunting of Toby Jugg
Dennis Wheatley
Darker Than You Think
Jack Williamson, John Stewart Williamson
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Herbert A. Wise
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
The Pillars of the World
Anne Bishop
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Deliver Me from Eva
Paul Bailey
Sleep No More
L. T. C. Rolt
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe
Treasury of Animal Stories
E. Louise Malley, E. Louise Mally
Three Novels - Headlong Hall -Nightmare Abbey-Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love Peacock
Selected Tales and Poems [24 stories, 47 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe