Horror Books of the 1950s
The 32 most-read horror books first published between 1950 and 1959, led by Fahrenheit 451 (1953), 'Salem’s Lot (1959) and The Magician's Nephew (1955).
This list collects 32 books from the 1950s by 24 authors, published between 1950 and 1959. 1 is free to read and 2 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
'Salem’s Lot
Stephen King
The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
I am Legend
Richard Matheson
Psycho
Robert Bloch
The October Country
Ray Bradbury
Three Hearts and Three Lions
Poul Anderson
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Conjure Wife
Fritz Leiber
Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
Jan Potocki
The dream-quest of unknown Kadath
H.P. Lovecraft
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
The Ka of Gifford Hillary
Dennis Wheatley
A Stir of Echoes
Richard Matheson
To the Devil - a Daughter
Dennis Wheatley
The Sundial
Shirley Jackson
Great American Short Stories
Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner
The mask of Cthulhu
August Derleth
Ghost Stories
Joan Aiken, Ruth Ainsworth
Future Perfect
H. Bruce Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
Clarence Lee Cline, C. L. Cline
The Body Snatchers
Jack Finney
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury
Roger butterfield, Roger Place Butterfield
Selected Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
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Feasting Dead
John Metcalfe
Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Alone / Annabel Lee / Black Cat / City in the Sea / Eldorado / Masque of the Red Death / Raven / To -- --)
Edgar Allan Poe
Great Short Stories
Wilbur Lang Schramm, Edgar Allan Poe
Hook Moon Night
Faye Gibbons
America's Literature
James David Hart, James D. Hart
Selected Short Stories (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Devil in the Belfry / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Hop-Frog / Ligeia / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe