Horror category: 36739 books

Alice receives a fright during a walk across campus.Two sisters Andrea and Hope encounter danger in the forest near their home.Abigail receives a threatening phone call in the middle of the night.Gary makes a dangerous discovery while preparing to attend a costume party.The Twist & Other Horror...

Rachel and Nolan's dinner party has a gruesome end.Laurel tries to convince two police officers that her roommate is a cold blooded murderer.Emily awakens from a long sleep. She discovers that her world has changed."A Simple Task & Other Horror Stories" contains five horror...

Darren finds something horrible during a video chat with his girlfriend. Lizzie makes a terrifying discovery when she ventures into the apartment upstairs. After Marsha's rich husband asks for a divorce, she decides to get revenge.  And his fortune. Winston's visit to an antique shop becomes a disturbing...

Debra and Haley's car breaks down in a deserted part of the city. While they are waiting for the arrival of a tow truck, they make a terrifying discovery. Jon is a vicious predator and he is very hungry. On a cold snowy night, he stalks his prey. Lissie goes to the drugstore on a Friday...

Herman has an unhealthy obsession with machines. He believes he can fix anything. His wife is tired of his antics and decides to leave him. After he is alone in the house, Herman makes a startling discovery about his obsession. Parker is a struggling comedian. His last performance at a local...

Four drunk young women have a gruesome adventure during a winter bachelorette party. A naive young wife learns a terrible lesson on the eve of her wedding anniversary. A young man's happy honeymoon trip turns deadly when his new wife plans a murder. After discovering that her...

Trevor goes to the university library to study for midterm examinations and he falls asleep in one of the study rooms. When he wakes up, he discovers that the life that he once knew has become a terrifying nightmare.On a cold snowy day, three friends Lisa, Carrie and Ralph find a strange package...

Alien? Predator? Who can deny it … science fiction and horror can go together like a hand inside a glove. And they do in this collection of stories by one of Britain’s most highly-praised practitioners of imaginative fiction. An Earthman tries to learn a deadly alien martial art, and finds...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. We have original fiction from Dale Bailey ("I Was a Teenage Werewolf") and Livia Llewellyn...

A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of Poe, by one of America's foremost anthologists. Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who...

H. Bedford-Jones was a hugely prolific author of pulp stories and dime novels. His 'Wolf Woman' is an excellent example of his work. Many of the horror stories of monsters and ghouls, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are...

Elizabeth Gaskell is one of the most significant female writers of the Victorian era. Her novels aside, Gaskell had numerous short pieces published in various periodicals, including Harper’s and Charles Dickens’ All the Year Round. 'The Old Nurse's Story' ranks amongst her best tales. Many of...

Frederick Marryat was one of the pioneers of the sea novel, and a major influence on writers such as Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway. In his day, his short fiction was wildly popular, and 'The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains' remains widely anthologised. Many of the horror stories of monsters...

'Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come - but I must not and cannot think!' H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction...