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Horror

The best books on horror, ranked by quality.

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 1890
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (141 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic
  2. 2
    The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (103 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic
  3. 3
    Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1846
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (311 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic
  4. 4
    Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë · 1847
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (191 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Romance Gothic
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe · 1704
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (23 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic Short stories
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    Uncle Silas Sheridan Le Fanu · 1864
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (11 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Gothic
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    The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe · 1846
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (22 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Gothic Short stories
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    Dracula Bram Stoker · 1897
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (255 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic
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    The Woman in White Wilkie Collins, John McLenan, Summit Press Staff · 1800
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (22 ratings)
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    Frankenstein Mary Shelley · 1818
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (229 ratings)
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    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 1875
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (152 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Gothic
  12. 12
    The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe · 1922
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (21 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Gothic Short stories
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    Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu · 1871
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (66 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Gothic
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    The king in yellow Robert W. Chambers · 1895
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (18 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Short stories
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    The Beetle Richard Marsh · 1897
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (9 ratings)
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    Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin · 1820
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (2 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Gothic
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    Short Fiction H.P. Lovecraft · 2018
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
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    The Mummy! Jane C. Webb Loudon · 1828
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
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    The empty house Algernon Blackwood · 1906
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
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    The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson · 1946
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (7 ratings)
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    Lady Audley’s Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (5 ratings)
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    Northanger Abbey Jane Austen · 1818
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 (48 ratings)
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    In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (3 ratings)
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    Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle · 1963
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Classics Horror Short stories
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