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Horror fiction is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole.
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Horror non-fiction
- The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould
- "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Vampire, His Kith and Kin by Montague Summers
Horror fiction
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- A Dream of Red Hands by Bram Stoker
- A Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce
- The Beast in the Cave, 1918 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
- The Book, 1938 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (unfinished)
- The Case of Euphemia Raphash by Matthew Phipps Shiel
- The Disinterment,1937 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and D. W. Rimel
- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, 1921 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Green Meadow, 1927 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson
- The Horror in the Burying-Ground, 1937 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Hazel Heald
- John Silence, Physician Extraordinary, 1908 by Algernon Blackwood
- Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
- Medusa's Coil by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
- The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Temple, 1925 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Tomb, 1922 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Vaila, 1896 by Matthew Phipps Shiel
- Xélucha, 1896 by Matthew Phipps Shiel
Cults
- The Grisly Horror, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
Cursed and enchanted objects
- Clothes
- "The Medici Boots" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- Cutlery
- "The Monkey Spoons" by . in Weird Tales, 42 (4) (May 1950)
- Mirrors
- "The Diary of Philip Westerly" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- Paintings
- Hell Screen 1918, by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- "Naked Lady" by . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890, by Oscar Wilde
- "The Sinister Painting" by . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
Cosmic horror
- Portal:Cthulhu Mythos
- Hypnos, 1923 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- "The Door into Infinity" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
Cryptids and strange creatures
Demons
- The Music of Erich Zann, 1922 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Other Gods, 1933 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Ghost stories
Gothic fiction
Mad science
- Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, 1831 by Mary Shelley
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1896 by H. G. Wells
- The Invisible Man, 1897 by H. G. Wells
- Herbert West: Reanimator, 1922 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Mummies
- "The Book of the Dead" by . in Weird Tales, 36 (2) (November-December 1941)
Murderers
- The Imp of the Perverse, 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Cask of Amontillado, 1846 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The String of Pearls, 1846-47 anonymous work
- Hop-Frog, 1849 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Max Hensig, 1907 by Algernon Blackwood
- The Vengeance of Nitocris, 1928 by Tennessee Williams
- "The Coming of Abel Behenna" by . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
- "In the Dark" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
Nature
- Malevolent aspects of nature (including animals and plants) and nature running amok. Includes spirits or forces of nature.
- The Willows, 1907 by Algernon Blackwood
- The Tree, 1921 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- "Vine Terror" by . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
Sea monsters
- The Horror at Martin's Beach, 1923 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sonia Haft Greene Lovecraft Davis
Undead
- Not including stories of vampires, mummies or others listed in separate sections
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe
- In the Vault, 1925 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Cool Air, 1928 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Skull-Face, 1929 by Robert Ervin Howard
Vampires
- "The Vampyre," 1819 by John William Polidori
- Clarimonde, 1836 by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, translated by Lafcadio Hearn
- "The Vampire," 1871 by Jan Neruda
- Carmilla, 1872 by Sheridan Le Fanu
- Dracula, 1897 by Bram Stoker
- The House of the Vampire, 1907 by George Sylvester Viereck
- The Room in the Tower, 1912 by Edward Frederic Benson
- "Return to Death" by . in Weird Tales, 27 (1) (January 1936)
- "Four Wooden Stakes" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- "Isle of the Undead" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)
- "Doom of the House of Duryea" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)
- "I, the Vampire" by . in Weird Tales, 29 (2) (February 1937)
- "Cross of Fire" by . in Weird Tales, 33 (5) (May 1939)
- "Spanish Vampire" by . in Weird Tales, 34 (3) (September 1939)
- "The Antimacassar" by . in Weird Tales, 41 (4) (May 1949)
- "Share Alike," 1953 by Jerome Bixby and Joe E. Dean
- "She Only Goes Out at Night," 1956 by William Tenn
Werewolves
- "Gypsy Song," 1771 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "The Boarwolf," 1826 by Robert Pearse Gillies
- "The Werewolf of the Hartz Mountains," 1839 by Frederick Marryat
- Wagner the Wehr-wolf, 1846 by George W. M. Reynolds
- "The Loup-Garou: A Legend of Auvergne" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 11 (1864) by George James De Wilde (transcription project)
- The Mark of the Beast, 1890 by Rudyard Kipling
- "The Camp of the Dog," 1908 by Algernon Blackwood
- The Lay of the Were-Wolf, 1911 by Marie de France
- "Werwolf," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Wolf of the Steppes," 1919 by Greye La Spina
- In the Forest of Villefére, 1925 by Robert E. Howard
- Invaders from the Dark, 1925 by Greye La Spina
- Wolfshead, 1926 by Robert E. Howard
- The Hyena, 1928 by Robert E. Howard
- "Werewolf of the Sahara" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- "The Hairy Ones Shall Dance" by . in Weird Tales, 31 (2) (February 1938)
- "Black Hound of Death," 1936 by Robert E. Howard
- "The Werewolf Howls" by . in Weird Tales, 36 (2) (November-December 1941)
Witchcraft, curses and magic
- The White People, 1904 by Arthur Machen
- Brood of the Witch Queen, 1918 by Sax Rohmer
- The Alchemist, 1916 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Horror at Red Hook, 1927 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Haunter of the Ring, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
Horror poetry
- Darkness, 1816 by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Nemesis, 1917 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- "Sable Revery" by . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
- "Lycanthropus" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- "Witch-Burning" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)
Horror authors
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- H. F. Arnold
- Edward Frederic Benson
- Ambrose Bierce
- Zealia Bishop
- Algernon Blackwood
- Robert William Chambers
- August William Derleth
- Stefan Grabinski
- William Hope Hodgson
- Robert Ervin Howard
- Montague Rhodes James
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Walter de la Mare
- Edward Plunkett (Lord Dunsany)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Seabury Quinn
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bram Stoker
- Manly Wade Wellman