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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.— Excerpted from Horror fiction on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Horror

Horror non-fiction

• The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould
• Supernatural Horror in Literature by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Horror fiction

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster from The Bride of Frankenstein. A common modern depcition of the monster.

• 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 Pearl Norton Swet in Weird Tales (August-September 1936, vol. 28, no. 2)

Cutlery

• "The Monkey Spoons," by Mary Elizabeth Counselman in Weird Tales (May 1950, vol. 42, no. 4)

Mirrors

• "The Diary of Philip Westerly," by Paul Compton in Weird Tales (August-September 1936, vol. 28, no. 2)

Paintings

• Hell Screen 1918, by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• "Naked Lady," by Mindret Lord in Weird Tales (September 1934, vol. 24, no. 3)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890, by Oscar Wilde
• "The Sinister Painting," by Greye La Spina in Weird Tales (September 1934, vol. 24, no. 3)

Cosmic horror

• Portal:Cthulhu Mythos
• Hypnos, 1923 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• "The Door into Infinity," by Edmond Hamilton in Weird Tales (August-September 1936, vol. 28, no. 2)

Cryptids and strange creatures

• The Horror of the Heights, 1913 by Arthur Conan Doyle

Demons

• The Music of Erich Zann, 1922 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• The Other Gods, 1933 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Ghost stories

• Portal:Ghost stories

Gothic fiction

• Portal: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 Frank Gruber in Weird Tales (November-December 1941, vol. 36, no. 2)

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 Bram Stoker in Weird Tales (September 1934, vol. 24, no. 3)
• "In the Dark," by Ronal Kayser in Weird Tales (August-September 1936, vol. 28, no. 2)

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 Howard Wandrei in Weird Tales (September 1934, vol. 24, no. 3)

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
  • December 1845 edition from The American Review
  • April 1926 edition from Amazing Stories
• In the Vault, 1925 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• Cool Air, 1928 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• Skull-Face, 1929 by Robert Ervin Howard

Vampires

• Clarimonde, 1836 by Théophile Gautier, translated by Lafcadio Hearn
• 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
• "Four Wooden Stakes," by Victor Rowan in Weird Tales (August-September 1936, vol. 28, no. 2)
• "Isle of the Undead," by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach in Weird Tales (October 1936, vol. 28, no. 3)
• "Doom of the House of Duryea," by Earl Peirce in Weird Tales (October 1936, vol. 28, no. 3)

Werewolves

• Wagner the Wehr-wolf, 1846 by George W. M. Reynolds
• The Mark of the Beast, 1890 by Rudyard Kipling
• The Lay of the Were-Wolf, 1911 by Marie de France
• In the Forest of Villefére, 1925 by Robert E. Howard
• Wolfshead, 1926 by Robert E. Howard
• The Hyena, 1928 by Robert E. Howard
• "Werewolf of the Sahara," by Gladys Gordon Trenery in Weird Tales (August-September 1936, vol. 28, no. 2)
• "The Werewolf Howls," by Clifford Ball in Weird Tales (November-December 1941, vol. 36, no. 2)

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 Robert William Nelson in Weird Tales (September 1934, vol. 24, no. 3)
• "Lycanthropus," by C. Edgar Bolen in Weird Tales (August-September 1936, vol. 28, no. 2)
• "Witch-Burning," by Mary Elizabeth Counselman in Weird Tales (October 1936, vol. 28, no. 3)

Horror authors

Edgar Allan Poe

• 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

See also

• Portal:Apocalyptic fiction
• Portal:Fantasy
• Portal:Science fiction