Classic Horror

Updated July 18, 2025
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At the mountains of madness
Lovecraft, H. P.
Paper Book
Introduction by China MiƩville Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and...
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Paper Book
Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker
Brown, Charles Brockden
Paper Book
One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more...
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Ghostly tales and eerie poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, Edgar Allan
Paper Book
This deluxe anthology, featuring 15 tales and 11 poems, brings Poe's work to a new generation of readers in a beautifully illustrated hardcover volume, the newest addition to the bestselling Illustrated Junior Library series. A timeless collection. Full color.
The haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley
Paper Book
The greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series! One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been...
The phantom of the Opera
Leroux, Gaston
Paper Book
Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and The Phantom of the Opera is his tour de force, as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession, The Phantom of the Opera has thrilled and entertained...
Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
This story of a double-life in which the protagonist by day worked as a respectable doctor and by night roamed the back alleys of old-town London, was first published as a 'shilling shocker' in 1886 and became an instant classic. In the first six months of publication 40,000 copies were sold, and it...
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...
Three vampire tales
Williams, Anne
Paper Book
Three classic works of vampire literature come together for the first time in one volume. Complementing the complete texts are background essays as well as additional selections by the three authors and others. Because the vampire novel has proven so influential in film, an extensive filmography is...
The turn of the screw
James, Henry
Paper Book
'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me, it stopped short' The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by...

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