Subject heading
American Horror tales
69 books carry this heading. It is a source-library term, kept as recorded; related traditions and headings below are drawn from co-occurrence, not editorial judgment.
Related traditions
- Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends55
- Ancient religions, animism, and ritual9
- Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis8
- Legendary beings and transformations5
- Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists4
- Occultism and esotericism3
- Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences2
- Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition2
Related subjects
- Fiction55
- Horror tales45
- horror41
- Short Stories40
- Horror stories34
- Children's fiction33
- Horror fiction32
- American literature28
- Gothic fiction26
- Fiction, horror24
- catalepsy24
- Juvenile fiction22
- American fiction21
- Crime20
- Dragons20
- Classic Literature19
- Detective and mystery stories19
- Hysteria19
- Knights19
- burial vaults19
Books
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Seltsame Geschichten (Balloon-Hoax / Descent into the Maelström / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1890German
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Novels
Charles Brockden Brown
1887
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe
1856
Beware!
Robert Lawrence Stine
2002
Nightmare Hour - Time for Terror
Robert Lawrence Stine
1999
Scary stories to tell in the dark
Alvin Schwartz
1605
The Haunting Hour - Chills in the Dead of Night
Robert Lawrence Stine, Various
2001
Remember Me
Christopher Pike
1989
The Regulators
Stephen King
1996
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Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire
1857French
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The Fall of the House of Usher, and Other Tales and Prose Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Rhys
1889
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
1800
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The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
1845
100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories
Al Sarrantino, Al Sarrantonio, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1993
Cults!
Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenburg, Frank Harris - undifferentiated, Leonard Kip, Edwin L. Sabin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Edward D. Hoch, Kit Reed, Donald Franson, Stephen King, John Varley, William F. Temple, Katherine MacLean, Martin H. Greenberg
1983
Dagon, and other macabre tales
H.P. Lovecraft
1965
Dark Forces
Kirby McCauley, Dennis Etchison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Edward Bryant, Davis Grubb, Robert Aickman, Karl Edward Wagner, Joyce Carol Oates, T. E. D. Klein, Gene Wolfe, Theodore Sturgeon, Ramsey Campbell, Clifford D. Simak, Russell Kirk, Lisa Tuttle, Robert Bloch, Edward Gorey, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Grahan Wilson, Stephen King
1980
Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
2010
I Shudder at Your Touch
Stephen King, Michele B. Slung, Valerie Martin, Haydn Middleton, Ruth Rendell, T. L. Parkinson, Ronald Duncan, Michael Blumlein, May Sinclair, Patrick McGrath, Robert G. Ackman, Carolyn Banks, Robert Smythe Hichens, Harriet Zinnes, R. Murray Gilchrist, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Fowler, Eric P. McCormack, Hugh B. Cave, Thomas M. Disch, Angela Carter, Stephen R. Donaldson, Clive Barker, Michelle Slung
1991
Necronomicon
H.P. Lovecraft
2008
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Poems and Tales from the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe [8 stories, 8 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, William Peterfield Trent
1898
Prime Evil
Douglas. Winter, Douglas E. Winter, Stephen King, Paul Hazel, Dennis Etchison, Clive Barker, Thomas Tessier, M. John Harrison, David Morrell, Peter Straub, Charles L. Grant, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell, Whitley Strieber, Jack Cady, Cover Art
1988
Scary!
Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine, Jerome Bixby, Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan, Leon Garfield, Isaac Asimov, Zenna Henderson, Roald Dahl, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Joan Aiken, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch
1998
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King
2015