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Welcome to the MASTERS OF TERROR CLASSIC HORROR FICTION page. This area is designed to act as an introduction for those who wish to delve into some of the classic works of horror. Many short stories and novels are available on-line to read free of charge. (Now you'll never get any work done!) This page links to many of those and also links to some terrific biographies and other sites.Art copyright © T.M. Arensberg 1998 |
TEN POPULAR CLASSICS OF HORROR FICTION
- Five novels and five short stories.EDGAR ALLAN POE - THE TELL TALE HEART (short story) - My favourite Poe story - plenty of terror and suspense.
WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON - THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND
HENRY JAMES - THE TURN OF THE SCREW
SHIRLEY JACKSON - THE LOTTERY (short story)
ARTHUR MACHEN - THE GREAT GOD PAN (short story)
OSCAR WILDE - THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
H.P. LOVECRAFT - THE OUTSIDER (short story)
M.R. JAMES - CASTING THE RUNES (short story) 'Casting The Runes' was the inspiration for the film 'Curse Of The Demon' (Night Of The Demon-UK) which many consider to be one of the finest horror films ever made.
Classic Author Reference
- Biographies, articles and of course on-line storiesALGERNON BLACKWOOD -
Biography at Classic Horror And Fantasy. Stories : An Egyptian Hornet, A Victim Of Higher Space, The House Of The Past.AMBROSE BIERCE - Stories :
An Occurence on Owl Creek Bridge, The Stranger,One Summer Night, The Realm of the Unreal, Night Doings, The Secret of Macarger's Gulch, Beyond the Wall, The Boarded Window, My Favourite Murder (find in index), Can Such Things Be?WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS - Stories :
The Haunted Hotel, A Terribly Strange Bed, The Evil Genius, I Say No, The Law And The Lady, The Moonstone (Novel), The Woman In White (Novel)F. MARION CRAWFORD - Stories :
For the Blood is the Life, The Upper Berth, The Screaming Skull.WALTER DE LA MARE -
Biography at Classic Horror And FantasyGUY DE MAUPASSANT - Stories :
5 Tales from the Tragedy and Comedy of Life by Guy de Maupassant (includes a Biography)CHARLES DICKENS - Stories :
The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain (Novel), A Christmas Carol (Novel) (then search), The Chimes, The Signal-ManSIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - Stories :
The Five Orange Pips , Wisteria Lodge , The Boscombe Valley Mystery , The Devil's Foot , The Engineer's Thumb , The Second Stain , The Cardboard Box , The Horror of the Heights , The Terror of Blue John Gap , The Brazilian Cat , The Sussex VampireNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE - Stories :
Circe's Palace, The Pygmies, The Artist of the Beautiful , The Great Stone Face , Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure , The Birth Mark , Earth's Holocaust , Higginbotham's Catastrophe , The Maypole of Merry Mount , The Wedding Knell, Heidegger's Experiment , The Golden Fleece , Lady Elanore's Mantle , The Haunted Mind , The Ambitious Guest , Alice Doane's Appeal , The Prophetic Pictures , The Bosom Serpent, The Hollow of the Three HillsWILLIAM HOPE HODGSON - Stories :
Carnacki the Ghost-Finder (Novel), The Derelict, The House on the Borderland (Novel), The Boats of the Glen Carig (Novel)W.W. JACOBS - Stories :
The Monkey's PawHENRY JAMES - Stories :
The Jolly Corner, Turn of the Screw (Novel), The Altar Of The Dead, Glasses, The Coxon FundM.R. JAMES -(1862-1936) Biography at Classic Horror And Fantasy. Stories : Canon Alberic's Scrap Book, Lost Hearts, The Ash Tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, Casting The Runes, Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You My Lad!, A School Story, The Mezzotint ,
JOSEPH SHERIDAN Le FANU - Stories :
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, Carmilla (Novel), Green Tea, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Purcell Papers, Schalken The PainterGASTON LEROUX - Stories :
Phantom Of The Opera (Novel)MATTHEW LEWIS -
The Monk (Novel) The grand-daddy of the modern horror novel many would say and quite possibly the first real identifiable horror novel (1795).H.P. LOVECRAFT - Stories/Poems :
The Outsider, The Statement of Randolph Carter , The Thing in the Moonlight, Cool Air , Fungi from Yuggoth, History of the Necronomicon , Nemesis , Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Astrophobos, He, In The Vault, Memory, Nathicana, Polaris, The Descendant, The Horror At Red Hook, The Messenger, The Nameless City, The Other Gods, The Quest Of Iranon, Where Poe Once WalkedARTHUR MACHEN -
Biography at Classic Horror And Fantasy. Stories - The White People, The Great God Pan.CHRISTOPHER MORLEY - Stories :
The Haunted BookshopMARGARET OLIPHANT - Stories : The Secret Chamber,
The Portrait, The Library Window : A Story of the Seen and UnseenEDGAR ALLAN POE - Stories : The Case Of M. Valdemar, The Black Cat, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Island of the Fay, Shadow, Mesmeric Revelation, The Sphinx , The Oval Portrait, The Oblong Box, Loss of Breath, The Man That Was Used Up, The Devil in the Belfry, Mystification, The Assignation, Some Words with a Mummy, Man of the Crowd, Premature Burial, Hop Frog, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death
JOHN POLIDORI -
The Vampyre (Novel)RAY RUSSELL - Stories :
Last Will and TestamentSAKI (H.H. MUNRO) - Stories :
The Music On The Hill, Tobermory, The Open Window, The Hounds of Fate, Mrs. Packletide's TigerMARY SHELLEY - Stories :
Frankenstein (Novel), The Mortal Immortal, The Last Man, Prometheus UnboundCLARK ASHTON SMITH - Stories :
The Seed from the Sepulcher, The Double Shadow, Sadastor, The Abominations of Yondo, The Flower Devil, The Mithridate, The VoiceROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - Stories :
The Body-Snatcher , The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Novel)BRAM STOKER - Stories :
The Judges House, The Lair Of The White Worm (Novel), Dracula (Novel), Dracula's GuestMARK TWAIN - Stories :
A Ghost StoryH.G. WELLS - Stories :
The Invisible Man (Novel), The Country of the Blind, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Door in the Wall, A Dream of Armageddon, The Star, The Cone, A Moonlight Fable, The Diamond Maker, The Truth About Pyecraft, The Time Machine (Novel) (then search site), The War Of The Worlds (Novel)OSCAR WILDE - Stories :
The Canterville Ghost , The Picture of Dorian Gray (Novel)
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