Classic Horror

Updated July 18, 2025
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Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Paper Book
Since its publication in 1897, Dracula has enthralled generation after generation of readers with the same spellbinding power with which Count Dracula enthralls his victims. Though Bram Stoker did not invent vampires, and in fact based his character's life-in-death on extensive research in...
Edgar Huntly
Brown, Charles Brockden
Ebook
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
  No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright...
The haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley
Paper Book
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a 'haunting...
The phantom of the opera
Leroux, Gaston
Paper Book
A half-crazed, disfigured musician living in the labyrinthine cellars of the Paris Opera House creates a series of strange and mysterious events to further the career of a beautiful young singer. Leroux's tale of the "phantom" is widely regarded as one of the most famous of all horror stories,...
The strange case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
Stevenson's classic "shilling shocker" has remained in the public imagination for well over a century, spawning numerous adaptations. Now available in an accessible format for all readers. "Man is not truly one, but truly two." A terrible killer lurks in London's dark...
Sweeney Todd : the demon barber of Fleet Street
Mack, Robert L.
Paper Book
'Ladies and Gentlemen...I have to state that Mrs Lovett's pies are made of human flesh!'This shocking announcement provides the stunning d'enouement to a narrative first published over a period of four months in the winter of 1846-7. The revelation marked only the beginning, however, of the...
The turn of the screw
James, Henry
Ebook

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