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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

Horror non-fiction
- The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould
- "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Vampire, His Kith and Kin by Montague Summers
Horror fiction

- 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 . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- Cutlery
- "The Monkey Spoons" by . in Weird Tales, 42 (4) (May 1950)
- Mirrors
- "The Diary of Philip Westerly" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- Paintings
- Hell Screen 1918, by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- "Naked Lady" by . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890, by Oscar Wilde
- "The Sinister Painting" by . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
Cosmic horror
- Portal:Cthulhu Mythos
- Hypnos, 1923 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- "The Door into Infinity" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
Cryptids and strange creatures
Demons
- The Music of Erich Zann, 1922 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- The Other Gods, 1933 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Ghost stories
Gothic fiction
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 Book of the Dead" by . 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 . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
- "In the Dark" by . 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 . 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 . in Weird Tales, 27 (1) (January 1936)
- "Four Wooden Stakes" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- "Isle of the Undead" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)
- "Doom of the House of Duryea" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)
- "I, the Vampire" by . in Weird Tales, 29 (2) (February 1937)
- "Cross of Fire" by . in Weird Tales, 33 (5) (May 1939)
- "Spanish Vampire" by . in Weird Tales, 34 (3) (September 1939)
- "The Antimacassar" by . 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
- "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 . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- "The Hairy Ones Shall Dance" by . in Weird Tales, 31 (2) (February 1938)
- "Black Hound of Death," 1936 by Robert E. Howard
- "The Werewolf Howls" by . 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 . in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)
- "Lycanthropus" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)
- "Witch-Burning" by . in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936)
Horror authors

- H. F. Arnold
- Edward Frederic Benson
- Ambrose Bierce
- Zealia Bishop
- Algernon Blackwood
- Robert William Chambers
- August William Derleth
- Stefan Grabinski
- William Hope Hodgson
- Robert Ervin Howard
- Montague Rhodes James
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Walter de la Mare
- Edward Plunkett (Lord Dunsany)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Seabury Quinn
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bram Stoker
- Manly Wade Wellman