Free Horror Books to Read Online
227 horror books in the public domain, free to read on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML. Start with The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Dracula (1897) and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
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The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aric Cushing
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
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Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
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The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
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The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
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The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen
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The Jewel of Seven Stars
Bram Stoker
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
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The House of Seven Gables Readalong
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft, Enrique Breccia
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
Mary Shelley
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The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance
James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest
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The Shunned House
H.P. Lovecraft
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Dunwich Horror
H.P. Lovecraft
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The Call of Cthulhu
H.P. Lovecraft
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Life Blood
Thomas Hoover
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
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Tales of Terror and Mystery
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Monk: A Romance. In Three Volumes. By M. G. Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
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The Willows
Algernon Blackwood
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The Magician
William Somerset Maugham
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Montague Rhodes James
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes - Volume One (Balloon-Hoax / Four Beasts in One / Gold-Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oval Portrait / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall)
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Vampyre
John William Polidori
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Brood of the Witch-Queen
Sax Rohmer
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The Phantom of the Opera (Dedalus European Classics)
Gaston Leroux
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Things near & far
Arthur Machen
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Uncle Silas
Sheridan Le Fanu
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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Charles Dickens, John Tenniel
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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Wendigo
Algernon Blackwood
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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Andrew Lang
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The house of the Wolfings
William Morris
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Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock
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The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
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The Damned
Algernon Blackwood
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The House of Souls
Arthur Machen
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
H.P. Lovecraft
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Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]
Ambrose Bierce
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The Damned Thing
Ambrose Bierce
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The Purple Cloud
M. P. Shiel, J. J. Cameron
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes - Volume Five
Edgar Allan Poe
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
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The mark of the monster
Jack Williamson
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The thing in the woods
Harper Williams
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The Return
Walter De la Mare
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Tales of terror
Dick Donovan
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The black kiss
Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner
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The life-eater
Harold Ward
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Conjure Wife
Fritz Leiber
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker
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The Sorcery Club
Elliott O'Donnell
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Murder mask
Edgar Daniel Kramer
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The Dark Frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes
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John Silence
Algernon Blackwood
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The Graveyard Rats
Henry Kuttner
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The Ghost Pirates
William Hope Hodgson
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Scottish Ghost Stories
Elliott O'Donnell
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The Best Ghost Stories
Daniel Defoe, Montague Rhodes James
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Varney the vampyre; or, the feast of blood
Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
Edgar Allan Poe
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Dracula's Guest
Bram Stoker
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
Edgar Allan Poe
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Pickman's model
H.P. Lovecraft
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The Colour Out of Space
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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Selections From Poe [6 stories, 35 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, John Montgomery Gambrill
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The picture in the house
H.P. Lovecraft
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The shadow over Innsmouth
H.P. Lovecraft
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The Night Land
William Hope Hodgson
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 02
Ambrose Bierce
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Night of the living dead
George A. Romero
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The Beetle: A Mystery
Richard Marsh
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Clarimonde
Théophile Gautier
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The Parasite: A Story
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
William Hope Hodgson
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Huntress
Lisa Jane Smith
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Curious, if True
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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The room in the tower, and other stories
E. F. Benson
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A Thin Ghost and Others
M. R. James
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Four Weird Tales
Algernon Blackwood
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Three John Silence Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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The haunter of the dark
H.P. Lovecraft
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The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations
Arthur Machen
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The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"
William Hope Hodgson
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The Joss
Richard Marsh
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Round the Fire Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Widdershins
Oliver Onions
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Three More John Silence Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Elliott O'Donnell
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The blood of the vampire
Florence Marryat
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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce
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The House of the Vampire
George Sylvester Viereck
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The Lost Stradivarius
John Meade Falkner
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Pillar of Fire
Ray Bradbury
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The Phantom Ship
Frederick Marryat
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The Lady of the Shroud
Bram Stoker
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Day and Night Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Ormond, or, The secret witness
Charles Brockden Brown
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Wandering ghosts
F. Marion Crawford
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The Salem horror
Henry Kuttner
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Studies in love and in terror
Marie Belloc Lowndes
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Lukundoo, and other stories
Edward Lucas White
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The Room in the Dragon Volant
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu
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The Mystery of Choice
Robert W. Chambers
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Visible and Invisible
E. F. Benson