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~ The Essentials ~

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein- Chapters 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-24
Bram Stoker - Dracula ~ Chapters: 1-56-1011-1516-20 21-27

~ The Icons  ~

H.P. Lovecraft links to The Alchemist, The Beast in the Cave, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Cats of Ulthar, Celephais, Dagon, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, Ex Oblivione, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, Herbert West: Reanimator, Memory, The Music of Erich Zann, The Nameless City, Nyarlathotep, The Picture in the House, Polaris, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Street, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, The Tree, The White Ship
Edgar Allan Poe - The Angel of the Odd, Berenice, The Black Cat, Bon-Bon, The Case of M. Valdemar, The Cask of Amontillado, A Descent into the Maelström, The Devil in the Belfry, Eleonora, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold Bug, Hop-Frog, The Imp of the Perverse, King Pest, Ligeia, The Man of the Crowd, The Masque of the Red Death, Metzengerstein, Morella, Ms. Found in a Bottle, The Murders In The Rue Morgue, Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym, Never Bet the Devil Your Head. The Oval Portrait, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Purloined Letter, The Raven, Shadow -- A Parable, Some Words With a Mummy, The Spectacles, The Sphinx, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, A Tale of Jerusalem, The Tell-Tale Heart

~ Horror Milestones ~

William Beckford - The History of the Caliph Vathek
Théophile Gautier - The Mummy’s Foot
Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
His first horror story...Edgar Allan Poe -Berenice
The first vampire story in English literature...John Polidori - The Vampyre
Horace Walpole- Castle of Otranto
[Otranto is widely recognized as the original True Gothic story]

~ Early Works ~

W. Harrison Ainsworth - The Spectre Bride
J. Y. Akerman - The Miniature
Hans Andersen - The Mother and the Dead Child
Anonymous - The Curse, Earl Beardie’s Game at CardsLife in Death, The Lunatic and His Turkey, Arthur and Gorlagon, The Black Spider, The Dance of the Dead, Haunted, The Life and Horrid Adventures of the Celebrated Dr Faustus, The Monk of Horror, The Old Tower of Frankenstein, The Severed Arm, The Spectre Hand, The Spectre Mother, The Strange Guests, The Victim, The Witch Spectre
Anna Laetitia Aikin - Sir Bertrand: A Fragment
Louisa May Alcott - The Abbot’s Ghost, Doctor Dorn’s Revenge, Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy’s Curse, Pauline’s Passion and Punishment, Perilous Play, A Whisper in the Dark
Lucius Apuleius - The Golden Asse
[Noted as having an early vampire reference (123 AD)]
T. Petronius Arbiter - The Satyricon of Petronius
Richard Barham - Jerry Jarvis’s Wig, Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, Doctor in Divinity
Honoré De Balzac - An Episode Under the Terror, The Executioner, The Girl with the Golden Eyes, La Grande Bretêche, The Thing at Ghent
Charles Pierre Baudelaire - The Generous Gambler
Louis Becke - A Basket of Breadfruit
William Beckford - The History of the Caliph Vathek, The Nymph of the Fountain, The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah, The Story of Prince Barkiarokh, The Story of the Princess Zulkaïs and the Prince Kalilah
Giovanni Boccaccio - Putting the Devil into Hell.
Mary E. Braddon - At Chrighton Abbey, The Cold Embrace, Eveline’s Visitant, Good Lady Ducayne, John Granger
Charlotte Brontë - Napoleon and the Spectre
Rhoda Broughton - Behold It Was a Dream, Poor Pretty Bobby, The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
Charles Brockden Brown - Death of Cicero, Insanity, A Lesson on Concealment, A Lesson on Sensibility, Thessalonica, The Trials of Arden
Edward Bulwer-Lytton - The Coming Race, Glenallan, The House and the Brain, The Magician, Monos and Daimonos
Ned Buntline (Edward Judson) - The Mad Wolf
Lord Byron - The Burial, A Fragment of a Novel, Lord Byron Views the Rites
George Washington Cable - The “Haunted House” in Royal Street, Jean-Ah Poquelin, The Young Aunt with White Hair
William Carleton - Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman, The Three Wishes
Owen Chase - The Ship That Was Wrecked by a Whale
Kate Chopin - Désirée’s Baby
W. M. Clarke - The Robbery of the Astrologer
Emma B. Cobb - What Did Miss Darrington See?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Charles Collins - The Compensation House
Wilkie Collins - “Blow Up with the Brig!”, The Cauldron of Oil, The Frozen Deep, Gabriel’s Marriage, The Haunted Hotel, John Jago’s Ghost, The Last Stage Coachman, The Lady of Glenwith Grange, Mrs. Zant and the Ghost, The Poisoned Meal, The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask: Part First, Part Second, Part Third; A Stolen Letter, The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
Paul Louis Courier - A Tale of Terror
Thomas Crofton Croker - Daniel O’Rourke, The Confessions of Tom Bourke, The Legend of Knockgrafton
Isaac Crookenden - The Vindictive Monk
J. C. Cross - Julia of Louvain
Catherine Crowe - The Blind Beggar of Odessa, The Dutch Officer’s Story, The Garde Chasse, The Italian’s Story, Possessed By Demons, Round the Fire
Richard Cumberland - The Poisoner of Montremos
Allan Cunningham - The Haunted Ships, The Master of Logan
‘Anne of Swansea’ (Mrs Julia Anne Curtis) - The Unknown!
Alphonse Daudet- The Death of the Dauphin, The Three Low Masses
Daniel Defoe - The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, The Friendly Demon, The Ghost in All the Rooms
Paul de Kock - Sister Anne
Marquis de Sade - Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Tree, The Ghost in Master B.’s Room, The Haunted House, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, The Signal-Man, The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle, The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, To be Taken with a Grain of Salt, Telling Winter Stories, The Trial For Murder
Dr Nathan Drake - The Abbey of Clunedale, Captive of the Banditti, Henry Fitzowen, a Gothic Tale, Wolkmar and His Dog
Amelia B. Edwards - My Brother’s Ghost Story, In the Confessional, The Engineer, How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries, Monsieur Maurice, The New Pass, The Phantom Coach, The Story of Salome, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Was It an Illusion?
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) - The Lifted Veil
Folktales - The Man-Tiger, The Murder Hole, Nuckelavee, The Pear-Drum
Baron de la Motte Fouqué - Sir Huldbrand’s Wife
Thomas Frost - The Abduction
John Galt - The Black Ferry
Théophile Gautier - The Dead Leman, The Mummy’s Foot, The Romance of a Mummy, The Unwrapping of a Mummy
G. R. Gleig - A Pyrenean Adventure
Nikolai Gogol - The Overcoat, St. John’s Eve
William Child Green - Secrets of Cabalism
The Hon. Mrs Greene - Bound by a Spell
Mrs. Richard S. Greenough - Apollyona, Domitia, Monarè, Ombra
Ann Maria Hall - Le Femme Noir
Bret Harte - The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story By Ch-r-s D-c-k-n-s, High-Water Mark
John Harwood - Horror: A True Tale, The Underground Ghost
Wilhelm Hauff - From the Memoirs of Satan, The Story of the Haunted Ship
R. S. Hawker - The Botathen Ghost
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Alice Doane’s Appeal, The Ambitious Guest, The Antique Ring, The Battle-Omen, The Celestial Railroad, The Christmas Banquet, Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, Fragments From the Journal of a Solitary Man, The Gentle Boy, Graves and Goblins, The Gray Champion, The Hollow of the Three Hills, Lady Eleanore’s Mantle, The Marble Faun: Volume I & Volume II, The Minister's Black Veil, Old Esther Dudley, An Old Woman’s Tale, Roger Malvin’s Burial, Wakefield, The Wedding Knell, The White Old Maid, The Wives of the Dead, Young Goodman Brown
E. T. A. Hoffmann - Automata, The Deserted House, The Golden Flower Pot, The Mines of Falun, A New Year’s Eve Adventure, Rath Krespel, The Sand-Man, Mlle de Scudéri, Signor Formica
James Hogg - The Brownie of the Black Haggs, The Expedition to Hell, The Laird of Cassway, Mary Burnet, The Mysterious Bride, Rob Dodds, Smith Cracks, &c., Tibby Hyslop’s Dream, and the Sequel, The Witches of Traquair
Thomas Hood - The Shadow of a Shade, A Tale of the Great Plague
Leigh Hunt - Ronald of the Perfect Hand.
Robert Hunt - Tregeagle
Thomas Henry Huxley - Mrs. Thompson Among the Cannibals
Leigh Hunt - A Tale for a Chimney Corner
Washington Irving - Adventure of the German Student, The Adventure of My Aunt, The Adventure of My Grandfather, The Bold Dragoon, The Devil and Tom Walker, Guests from Gibbet Island, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Moor’s Legacy, The Spectre Bridegroom
Hannah Maria Jones - The Life of a Murderer
Anna Kingsford - The Enchanted Woman
Charles Lamb - Arabella Hardy
Letitia E. Landon - The Bride of Lindorf
Francis Lathorn - The Water Spectre
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, A Royalist Captain, Billy Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory, The Bridal of Carrigvarah, Carmilla, Catherine's Quest, A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family, The Child That Went With the Fairies. The Dead Sexton, A Debt of Honor, Devereux’s Dream, Dickon the Devil, Doctor Feversham’s Story, The Dream, The Drunkard's Dream, The Evil Guest, The Familiar, The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh, The Ghost and the Bone-Setter, Ghost Stories of Chapelizod, Green Tea, Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow, The Last Heir of Castle Connor, Madam Crowl’s Ghost, Mr. Justice Harbottle, Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand, Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess, The Phantom Fourth, The Quare Gander, The Room in the Dragon Volant, The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts, Sir Dominick’s Bargain, The Spirit’s Whisper, Squire Toby’s Will, Stories of Lough Guir, Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter, Ultor de Lacy, The Vision of Tom Chuff, The White Cat of Drumgunniol, Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling
Gaston Leroux - In Letters of Fire
Charles Lever - Post-Mortem Recollections of a Medical Lecturer
Miss Mary Lewis - Witchcraft and Wizardry in Wales
Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Anaconda, The Captive, The Castle Spectre, My Uncle’s Garret Window, The Midnight Embrace, Mistrust
Jonas Lie - The Cormorants of Andvær, The Earth Draws, Finn Blood, The Fisherman and the Draug, The Homestead Westward in the Blue Mountains, The Huldrefish, “It’s Me”, Isaac and the Parson of Brönö, Jack of Sjöhölm and the Gan-Finn, Tug of War, The Wind-Gnome  
Eliza Lynn Linton - The Fate of Madame Cabanel, Witchcraft in England, The Witches of Scotland
George Lippard - A Night in Monk-Hall
Edward Lloyd - The Dead Alive
George Macdonald - The Enchanted Forest, The Gray Wolf, A Ghost Story, The Golden Key, The Magic Mirror, A Tragedy of Bones, Uncle Cornelius His Story
Niccolò Machiavelli - Belphagor
Frederick Marryat - The Legend of the Bell Rock, The Story of the Greek Slave, The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains
John Masefield - Davy Jones’s Gift, The Devil and the Old Man
Wilhelm Meinhold - The Amber Witch
Herman Melville - Hood’s Isle and the Hermit Oberlus, The Lightning-Rod Man
Sutherland Menzies - Hugues, the Wer-Wolf
Prosper Mérimée - Federigo, La Belle Hélène, Mateo Falcone, The Venus of Ille
Edward Page Mitchell - The Ablest Man in the World, Back From That Bourne, The Balloon Tree, The Case of the Dow Twins, The Cave of the Splurgles, The Clock That Went Backward, The Crystal Man, The Devilish Rat, The Devil’s Funeral, Exchanging Their Souls, An Extraordinary Wedding, The Facts in the Ratcliff Case, The Inside of the Earth, The Last Cruise of the Judas Iscariot, The Legendary Ship, The Man Without a Body, The Pain Epicures, The Professor’s Experiment, The Senator’s Daughter, The Shadow on the Fancher Twins, The Soul Spectroscope, The Tachypomp, The Terrible Voyage of the Toad, An Uncommon Sort of Spectre, The Wonderful Corot 
A. B. Mitford - An Account of the Hara-Kiri, The Badger’s Money, Concerning Certain Superstitions, The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto, Fairy Tales, The Forty-Seven Rônins, The Ghost of Sakura, The Grateful Foxes, How a Man Was Bewitched And Had His Head Shaved By the Foxes, How Tajima Shumé was Tormented By a Devil of His Own Creation, Kazuma’s Revenge, The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki, The Story of the Demon Shudendôji, A Story of the Otokodaté of Yedo, Tsunémasa, The Wonderful Adventures of Funakoshi Jiuyémon
William Mudford - The Iron Shroud
Dinah M. Mulock - The Last House in C— Street, M. Anastasius
John Nicholson - Sawney Bean and His Family
Renton Nicholson - The Actor’s Tale
Francis North - The Kentish Barons
Fitz-James O’Brien - An Arabian Nightmare, The Bohemian, The Child Who Loved A Grave, The Crystal Bell, A Day Dream, A Dead Secret, The Diamond Lens, The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu, Jubal, the Ringer, How I Overcame My Gravity, The Lost Room, The Man Without a Shadow. The Other Night, The Pot of Tulips, Seeing the World, A Terrible Night, Three of a Trade, Tommatoo, A Voyage in My Bed, What Was It?
William D. O’Conner - The Ghost
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - The Library Window, Old Lady Mary, The Open Door, The Portrait
Charles Perrault - Bluebeard
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Beyond the GatesCalico, The Day of My Death, The Gates Ajar, The Gates Between, In the Gray GothKentucky’s Ghost, Night-Watches, No News, One of the Elect, Since I Died, The Tenth of January, What Was the Matter?
Charles Pigault-Lebrun - The Unholy Compact Abjured
James Platt - The Devil’s Debt, The Witches’ Sabbath
John Polidori - The Vampyre
Thomas Peckett Prest - The Demon of the Hartz
Alexander Pushkin - The Queen of Spades
Thomas De Quincey - The Dice, Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow, The Masque
Raphael - The Magic Watch
Clara Reeve - The Old English Baron
Mrs Baillie Reynolds - A Witch Burning
G. M. W. Reynolds - The Body-Snatchers, The Iron Coffin, The Tribunal of the Inquisition
Phil Robinson - The Man-Eating Tree
James Malcolm Rymer - The Resuscitation of a Vampire
Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile - Marshal Blücher, The Mysterious Horseman
Marcel Schwob - Bloody Blanche
Sir Walter Scott - The Tale of the Mysterious Mirror, The Tapestried Chamber, Wandering Willie’s Tale
Mary Shelley - The Bride of Modern Italy, The Dream, An Eighteenth-Century Tale, The Evil Eye, Ferdinando Eboli, The Heir of Mondolfo, The Invisible Girl, The Last Man, The Mortal Immortal: A Tale, The Parvenue, The Pole, Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman, The Sisters of Albano, A Tale of the Passions, Transformation, Valerius The Reanimated Roman
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Assassins
Horace Smith - Sir Guy Eveling’s Dream
P’ou Song-lin - Carrying a Corpse, Childless, The Corpse the Blood-Drinker, Deceiving Shadows, The-Devils-of-the-Ocean, The Dutiful Son, The Fault and Its Consequences, The Fresco, The Ghost in Love, Love Rewarded, The Laughing Ghost, Love’s-Slave, The Marble Arch, The Mysterious Island, The Patch of Lamb’s Skin, Peaceful-Light, The Princess Nelumbo, The Spirit of the River, Theft of the Peach, The Two Brothers, Unknown Devils
Sir Richard Steele - The Story of the Cornish Lovers
Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House, The Ghost in the Mill
Eugène Sue - The Raft of Death
P‘u Sung-ling - The Alchemist, Appendix I, The Buddhist Priest of Ch‘ang-Ch‘ing, Chou K’o-Ch’ang and His Ghost, The Clay Image, The Cloth Merchant, The Country of the Cannibals, Cruelty Avenged., Dishonesty Punished, Dr. Tsêng’s Dream, The Dwarf Hunters, Examination for the Post of Guardian Angel, The Flower Nymphs, His Father’s Ghost, The Fisherman and His Friend, In the Infernal Regions, Hsiang-ju’s Misfortunes, Jen Hsiu, Joining the Immortals, Killing a Serpent, The King, Little Chu, The Mad Priest, The Magic Sword, The Man Who Was Thrown Down A Well, The Marriage of the Virgin Goddess, Miss Lien-Hsiang, Miss Quarta HuThe Mysterious Head, The Painted Skin, Planchette, Raising the Dead, The Resuscitated Corpse, The Shui-Mang Plant, The Spirit of the Hills, The Spirits of the Po-yang Lake, Spiritualistic Séances, The Stolen Eyes, A Supernatural Wife, Taking Revenge, The Talking Pupils, The Three States of Existence Through Many Lives, The Taoist Priest of Lao-Shan, Mr. Tung, or Virtue Rewarded, The Thunder God, The Trader’s Son, The Wei-Ch’i Devil, The Woman in Green, The Wolf Dream, The Wonderful Stone
Jonathan Swift - An Account of the Death of Mr. Partridge
William Makepeace Thackeray - The Devil’s Wager, The Painter’s Bargain
Johann Ludwig Tieck - Wake Not The Dead
Ada Trevanion - A Ghost Story
Mark Twain - A Curious Dream, A Ghost Story, The Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet
Unknown - Accadian Poem on the Seven Evil Spirits, Address to the Gods of the Underworld, The Adventures of Sanehat, Anpu And Bata, The Coffin-Lid, The Cross-Surety, The Dead Mother, The Dead Witch, The Doomed Prince, A Dream of Death, The Headless Princess, Koshchei the Deathless, The Lanai Horror, The Mysterious Stranger, The Negative Confession, The Peasant and the Workman, The Witch, The Witch Hare, Setna and the Magic Book, The Shipwrecked Sailor, Tales of the Magicians, The Warlock, The Witch and the Sun’s Sister.
From the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead:
Of Entering into the Great House, Of Entering the Presence, Of Evil Recollections, Of Rescue, Of Opening the Tomb, Of Not Sailing to the East, Of Going About in the Underworld
Beowulf
1-5,
6-10, 11-15, 16-20, 21-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40, 41-43
Horace Walpole - The King and his three Daughters, Maddalena, A new Arabian Night’s Entertainment, The Dice-Box. A Fairy Tale, Mi Li. A Chinese Fairy Tale The Peach is Brandy. A MilesianTale, A true Love Story
Samuel Warren - The Spectre-Smitten, The Thunder-Struck
Sarah Wilkinson - The Mysterious Novice, The Spectre
Mary Wollstonecraft - Crazy Robin
Mrs Henry Wood - The Ghost, Reality or Delusion?

 


~ Late 19th/Early 20th Century ~

Alvey A. Adee - The Life Magnet
Pedro Antonio De Alarcón - The Tall Woman
W. D. Alexander - Burial of the Last Prince of Kauai
Grant Allen - The Beckoning Hand, My New Year’s Eve Among the Mummies, Pallinghurst Barrow, The Thames Valley Catastrophe, Wolverden Tower
Arnold M. Anderson - Ghost of Buckstown Inn
William Ashley Anderson - The End of the Game
Anonymous - Banshees, The Burglar’s Ghost, The Dead Man of Varley Grange, The Dead Woman’s Photograph, The Ghost in the Bank of England, The Ghost of the Count, The Ghost of a Live Man, The Ghost of Washington, How He Caught the Ghost, A Misfit Ghost, The Old Mansion, The Parlor-Car Ghost , The Phantom Hag, A Phantom Toe, The Phantom Woman, The Printer’s Devil, Sandy’s Ghost, In the Slaughteryard, The Spectre Bride, The Story of Clifford House, The Strange Guests, An Unbidden Guest, The Weird Woman
F. Anstey - Accompanied on the Flute, The Black Poodle, The Curse of the Catafalques, The Return of Agamemnon, The Siren, The Story of a Sugar Prince, A Toy Tragedy, The Wraith of Barnjum
Edwin Lester Arnold- A Dreadful Night
Alice and Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance and the Vampire
Gertrude Atherton - The Bell in the Fog, The Dead and the Countess, Death and the Woman, The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number, The Striding Place, Talbot of Ursula, The Tragedy of a Snob
Stacy Aumonier - Old Fags
Mary Austin - The Readjustment
"B" - The Stone Coffin
Nathaniel T. Babcock - The Man with the Brown Beard
Louisa Baldwin (Mrs. Alfred Baldwin) - How He Left the Hotel, The Real and the Counterfeit, Many Waters Cannot Quench Love
John Kendrick Bangs - Carleton Barker, First And Second, The Dampmere Mystery, The Exorcism That Failed, The Ghost Club, Ghosts That Have Haunted Me, The Literary Remains of Thomas Bragdon, A Midnight Visitor, The Mystery of Barney O’Rourke, A Psychical Prank, A Quicksilver Cassandra, The Speck on the Lens, The Spectre Cook of Bangletop, Thurlow’s Ghost Story, The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall