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Horror.

From the creeping dread of The Yellow Wallpaper to the cosmic terror of Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, our horror shelves are stacked with stories that chill and thrill in equal measure. Here you'll find the foundational nightmares that shaped the genre—ancient vampires, reanimated flesh, and quiet tales that unsettle the soul. Perfect for long nights and flickering candlelight.

29 books

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

A scientist's reckless ambition births a sentient being—one whose loneliness curdles into rage.

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Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

A gathering of eerie and supernatural tales, where the ordinary world thins at the edges and something strange steps quietly through.

$8.50

The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole's foundational gothic novel, where a doomed castle, a monstrous prophecy, and supernatural terror announce a whole new genre.

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At the mountains of madness

At the mountains of madness

H.

From $9.00

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M.

From $9.50

The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

A collection of Rudyard Kipling's early supernatural and uncanny tales, set largely in colonial India, where the heat, the isolation and the guilt of the living conjure visitors wh

$9.50

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

A gathering of short supernatural tales for a shivery evening, hauntings, apparitions and uncanny visitations collected in the classic manner of the ghost-story anthology.

$9.50

The House on the Borderland

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson's visionary tale of horror and cosmic wonder, in which a remote house becomes the threshold to unimaginable forces.

$9.00

Tales of Terror and Mystery

Tales of Terror and Mystery

A collection of dark and suspenseful stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from the eerie to the horrifying.

$9.50

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Algernon Blackwood's unsettling tales of the uncanny, where dread seeps in through the ordinary.

$9.50

Carmilla

Carmilla

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The Damned Thing: 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"

The Damned Thing: 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"

Ambrose Bierce's chilling tale of an unseen menace, told at a coroner's inquest over a mangled corpse.

$9.50

The Great God Pan

The Great God Pan

Arthur Machen's chilling novella of forbidden experiment and ancient dread, in which a glimpse behind the veil of the world unleashes a creeping, unnameable horror.

$9.50

The Shunned House

The Shunned House

H.

$9.00

The call of Cthulhu

The call of Cthulhu

H.

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The Dunwich horror

The Dunwich horror

H.

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The Cask of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of cold revenge, told by a narrator luring his victim into the catacombs by the promise of a rare wine.

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The String of Pearls

The String of Pearls

The original penny dreadful that gave the world Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, and Mrs Lovett's terrible pies.

$9.50

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving's immortal tale of the gangling schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, the drowsy Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, and the terrifying midnight rider who haunts its glen.

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The Monk

The Monk

Matthew Lewis's notorious Gothic novel, a lurid, gripping tale of a revered monk undone by temptation, in which piety collapses into obsession, corruption and supernatural terror.

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The Two Magics

The Two Magics

Henry James pairs his celebrated ghost story with a lighter companion tale.

$8.50

The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow

Robert W.

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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a respectable doctor and his monstrous alter ego, a taut and unsettling fable of the double life hidden within a single divided soul.

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The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James’s gothic novella traps a young governess, two children, and a country house inside one of literature’s most unnerving studies in ambiguity, repression, and dread.

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The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau

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The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's chilling short story of a woman confined for her health, whose narrowing world comes to fixate on the pattern of her room's wallpaper.

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

A respected doctor’s dangerous experiments unleash his hidden self, a creature of pure appetite.

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Dracula

Dracula

A creeping dread unfolds through letters and diaries as an ancient evil crosses into Victorian London.

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