Horror Books of the 1960s
The 59 most-read horror books first published between 1960 and 1969, led by At the Mountains of Madness (1968), Night Shift (1960) and The Dunwich Horror (1963).
This list collects 59 books from the 1960s by 41 authors, published between 1960 and 1969. 4 are free to read and 4 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft, Enrique Breccia
Night Shift
Stephen King
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The Dunwich Horror
H.P. Lovecraft
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson, Bernadette Dunne
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Tales of Terror and Mystery
Arthur Conan Doyle
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
The Collector
John Fowles
Aura
Carlos Fuentes
Kiss Kiss
Roald Dahl
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
H.P. Lovecraft
Whispers
Dean Koontz
La fête du mais
Thomas Tryon
The Shrinking Man
Richard Matheson
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]
Edgar Allan Poe
A Fine and Private Place
Peter S. Beagle
Beowulf
Rosemary Sutcliff
50 Great Horror Stories
John Canning
Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbinders in Suspense
Alfred Hitchcock, Agatha Christie
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Henry Farrell
Stories from the Twilight Zone
Rod Serling
Dagon, and Other Macabre Tales
H.P. Lovecraft
The Satanist
Dennis Wheatley
The Birds and Other Stories
Daphne du Maurier
The Werewolf Principle
Clifford D. Simak
Ghostly Gallery
Alfred Hitchcock
The Lime Twig
John Hawkes
Image of the Beast
Philip José Farmer
Horrors!
Drake Douglas
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Ten Great Mysteries [10 stories, 5 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, Conklin, Groff
Jane-Emily
Patricia Clapp
21 Great Stories
Abraham Harold Lass, Norma L. Tasman
Tales of Mystery and Terror (Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words With a Mummy / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
Angel Among Witches
Adela Gale
Tales of the Mysterious and the Macabre
Algernon Blackwood
The House of the Nightmare, and Other Eerie Tales
Kathleen Lines, Ambrose Bierce
Thrillers and More Thrillers
Robert Arthur, August Derleth
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Ghost and horror stories of Ambrose Bierce [24 stories]
Ambrose Bierce, E.F. Bleiler
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, David Galloway
More Stories From the Twilight Zone
Rod Serling
Lois the Witch
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror
Robert Donald Spector, Horace Walpole
The Undying Past
Hebe Elsna, Laura Conway
American Short Stories
Douglas Grant, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Humor, Horror and the Supernatural
Saki
18 Best Stories
Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price
The Experience of Literature
Gene Montague, Edgar Allan Poe
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Selected Stories and Poems [10 stories, 12 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
From the Twilight Zone
Rod Serling
The Fall of the House of Usher and Four Other Tales (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Oval Portrait / Three Sundays in a Week)
Edgar Allan Poe
Three Gothic Novels
William Beckford
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe Stories [27 stories, 8 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
Tales, and, The raven and other poems
Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Terror and the Unknown
Algernon Blackwood
The Realm of Fiction - 61 Short Stories
James B. Hall, Fiódor Dostoievski
Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories
Evan Lodge, Marjorie Braymer
New Stories From the Twilight Zone
Rod Serling
Twilight Zone Revisited
Walter B. Gibson