Subject heading
Horror stories
185 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 legends61
- Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists59
- Legendary beings and transformations36
- Demonology, angelology, and possession20
- Ancient religions, animism, and ritual13
- Ritual magic and grimoires8
- UFOs, extraterrestrials, and contact6
- Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis6
Related subjects
- Children's fiction163
- Fiction149
- Horror tales106
- Juvenile fiction97
- Horror fiction49
- horror47
- Ghost stories42
- Short Stories40
- American Horror tales34
- Ghosts34
- Supernatural30
- Vampires, fiction29
- Vampires28
- Ghosts, fiction27
- Mystery and detective stories26
- Gothic fiction25
- American literature24
- Fantasy fiction23
- murder22
- Detective and mystery stories21
Books
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
1800
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Under the sunset
Bram Stoker
1882
Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer, Sylke Hachmeister
2000
Collected Ghost Stories
Montague Rhodes James
1931
Great Short Stories of the World
Isak Dinesen, Sholem Aleichem, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Reader's Digest Association, Truman Capote, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Nigel Balchin, William Somerset Maugham, Santha Rama Rau, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Anatole France, Антон Павлович Чехов, Nadine Gordimer, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Corrado Alvaro, Sally Benson, John Updike, Damon Runyon, Pearl S. Buck, Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson, Alberto Moravia, H. G. Wells, Lilika Nakos, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassat, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Rumer Godden, Hernando Tellez, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Benchley, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Machado de Assis, Jean Stafford, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, James Thurber, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Montague Rhodes James, Максим Горький, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Josh Gregory, Doris Lessing, Saki, Wallace Stegner, Marcel Aymé, Colette, Ring Lardner, Paul Horgan, Thomas Head Raddall, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, Henry Lawson
1972
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Slesar, Gertrude Henderson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Helen McCloy, Kris Neville, Edgar Allan Poe, Baron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton, Manly Wade Wellman, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fritz Leiber, F. W. Harvey, Cornell Woolrich, Avram Davidson, C. L. Moore, John Hay, Robert W. Chambers, August Derleth, Judith Merril, Edith Wharton
1989
Magic at the Crossroads (Dark Hearts)
Daniel Parker
1996
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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
Sleeping beauties
Stephen King, Owen King
2017
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
1983
The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris
Shirley Jackson
1949
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The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe [4 stories, 43 poems, 1 essay]
Edgar Allan Poe
1884
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume I - Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque I
Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodbury
1894
Betrayed
P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast
2007
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HISTORIAS ESTRAORDINARIAS (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Four Beasts in One / Gold-Bug / Imp of the Perverse / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Oval Portrait / Premature Burial / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1871Spanish
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Alvin Schwartz, Victor Rivas, Dirk Zimmer
1984
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Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires (Angel of the Odd / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Domain of Arnheim / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Landor's Cottage / Lionizing / Maelzel's Chess Player / 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 / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tale of Jerusalem / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1884French
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Oeuvres complètes de Ch. Baudelaire - Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Angel of the Odd / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Domain of Arnheim / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / King Pest / Landor's Cottage / Lionizing / Oval Portrait / Power of Words / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1892French
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Storie incredibili (Berenice / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Morella / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1869Italian
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Unbegreifliche Ereignisse und geheimnißvolle Thaten (Assignation / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Man of the Crowd / Morella / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oblong Box / Pit and the Pendulum / Spectacles / Sphinx / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man / Three Sundays in a Week / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1861German
Obliterated
Chris Mentillo
2015
Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake
2011
Bad Girls Don't Die
Katie Alender
2009
Bec
Darren Shan
2000