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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."Horror fiction," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

A jack-o'-lantern. The eyes and mouth of a carved pumpkina are lit from within while the rest of the carved vegetable is in darkness against a black background. — Horror

Horror non-fiction

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, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)

Cutlery

"The Monkey Spoons" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman. in Weird Tales, 42 (4) (May 1950)

Mirrors

"The Diary of Philip Westerly" by Paul Compton. in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)

Paintings

"The Family Portraits" 1805, by Johann August Apel
"Hell Screen" 1918, by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
"Naked Lady" by Mindret Lord. in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" 1890, by Oscar Wilde
"The Sinister Painting" by Greye La Spina. in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)

Cosmic horror

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Hypnos, 1923 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
"The Door into Infinity" by Edmond Hamilton. in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)

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

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Gothic fiction

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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 Awakener in the Desert" by Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath, translated by John Oxenford in Ainsworth’s Magazine (March 1842)
"The Book of the Dead" by Frank Gruber. 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 Bram Stoker. in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
"In the Dark" by Ronal Kayser. 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 Howard Wandrei. 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 J. Wesley Rosenquest. in Weird Tales, 27 (1) (January 1936)
"Four Wooden Stakes" by Victor Rowan. in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
"Isle of the Undead" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)
"Doom of the House of Duryea" by Earl Peirce. in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)
"I, the Vampire" by Henry Kuttner. in Weird Tales, 29 (2) (February 1937)
"Cross of Fire" by Lester del Rey. in Weird Tales, 33 (5) (May 1939)
"Spanish Vampire" by Edgar Hoffmann Price. in Weird Tales, 34 (3) (September 1939)
"The Antimacassar" by Greye La Spina. 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
"Men-Wolves," 1837 by Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki
"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 Gladys Gordon Trenery. in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
"The Hairy Ones Shall Dance" by Gans T. Field. in Weird Tales, 31 (2) (February 1938)
"Black Hound of Death," 1936 by Robert E. Howard
"The Werewolf Howls" by Clifford Ball. 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 Robert William Nelson. in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
"Lycanthropus" by C. Edgar Bolen. in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
"Witch-Burning" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman. in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)

Horror authors

See also

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