Guide to Related Topics
Interviews
Laird Barron
Ramsey Campbell
Ellen Datlow
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Joe R. Lansdale
Thomas Ligotti
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Horror Literature through History
Horror in the Ancient World
Horror in the Early Modern Era
Horror in the Middle Ages
Horror in the Eighteenth Century
Horror in the Nineteenth Century
Horror from 1900 to 1950
Horror from 1950 to 2000
Horror in the Twenty-First Century
Horror Types and Subgenres
Apocalyptic Horror
Dark Fantasy
Eco-horror
Ghost Stories
The Gothic Literary Tradition
Gothic Poetry
Horror Comics
Horror Literature and Science Fiction
Lovecraftian Horror
New Weird
Occult Fiction
Psychological Horror
Vampire Fiction from Dracula to Lestat and Beyond
Weird and Cosmic Horror Fiction
Young Adult Horror Fiction
Monsters, Creatures, Threats, and Villains
Devils and Demons
Doubles, Doppelgängers, and Split Selves
Gothic Hero/Villain
Incubi and Succubi
Mad Scientist
Monsters
Mummies
Vampires
Werewolves
Witches and Witchcraft
Zombies
Topical Studies
Body Horror
Cthulhu Mythos
Gender, Sexuality, and the Monsters of Literary Horror
Horror Anthologies
Horror Criticism
Horror Literature in the Internet Age
Horror Literature as Social Criticism and Commentary
Horror Publishing, 1975–1995: The Boom Years
Horror Video Games
The Legacy of Frankenstein: From Gothic Novel to Cultural Myth
Novels versus Short Fiction
The Numinous
Occult Detectives
Penny Dreadful
Pulp Horror
Religion, Horror, and the Supernatural
Romanticism and Dark Romanticism
Shakespearean horrors
Small Press, Specialty, and Online Horror
Spiritualism
Splatterpunk
The Sublime
Surrealism
Terror versus Horror
The Uncanny
Unreliable Narrator
Weird Tales
Tropes, Themes, and Narrative Techniques
Ancestral Curse
Body Snatching
Byronic Hero
Dreams and Nightmares
Forbidden Knowledge or Power
Frame Story
The Grotesque
The Haunted House or Castle
Possession and Exorcism
Transformation and Metamorphosis
Unreliable Narrator
Authors and Works
Aickman, Robert
“Ringing the Changes”
Ainsworth, William Harrison
Ajvide Lindqvist, John
Alcott, Louisa May
Ballard, J. G.
Barker, Clive
Books of Blood
The Damnation Game
Barlow, R. H.
Barron, Laird
Baudelaire, Charles
“The Beast with Five Fingers” by W. F. Harvey
Beaumont, Charles
Benson, E. F.
Bierce, Ambrose
“The Death of Halpin Frayser”
Blackwood, Algernon
John Silence: Physician Extraordinary
“The Willows”
Bleiler, E. F.
Bloch, Robert
“Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bowen, Marjorie
Bradbury, Ray
The October Country
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Brennan, Joseph Payne
Brite, Poppy Z.
The Brontë Sisters
Brown, Charles Brockden
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
Butler, Octavia E.
Buzzati, Dino
Byron, Lord
Campbell, Ramsey
Alone with the Horrors
“The Chimney”
“Mackintosh Willie”
Carroll, Jonathan
Carter, Angela
Chambers, Robert W.
The King in Yellow
Charnas, Suzy McKee
Cisco, Michael
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collier, John
Collins, Wilkie
Communion by Whitley Strieber
Coppard, A. E.
Crawford, F. Marion
“The Screaming Skull”
Dagon by Fred Chappell
Datlow, Ellen
de la Mare, Walter
“The Listeners”
“Out of the Deep”
The Return
“Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen
Derleth, August
The Lurker at the Threshold
Dick, Philip K.
du Maurier, Daphne
Due, Tananarive
Ellison, Harlan
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
“The Whimper of Whipped Dogs”
Etchison, Dennis
Ewers, Hanns Heinz
Alraune
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Farris, John
Faulkner, William
Féval, Paul
Gaiman, Neil
Gautier, Théophile
“The Ghost Ship” by Richard Middleton
Gogol, Nikolai
Grabiński, Stefan
The Dark Domain
Grant, Charles L.
Haggard, H. Rider
She
Haining, Peter
Hand, Elizabeth
The Hands of Orlac by Maurice Renard
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Thomas
Hartley, L. P.
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of the Seven Gables
“Young Goodman Brown”
Hearn, Lafcadio
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Herbert, James
The Rats
Hichens, Robert
Hill, Joe
Hill, Susan
The Woman in Black
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Hodgson, William Hope
The House on the Borderland
The Night Land
Hoffmann, E. T. A.
“The Sand-man”
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Howard, Robert E.
Hubbard, L. Ron
Fear
Hugo, Victor
Huysmans, J. K.
The Damned
Irving, Washington
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Jackson, Shirley
The Haunting of Hill House
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
James, M. R.
“Casting the Runes”
Joshi, S. T.
Joyce, Graham
Kafka, Franz
Keene, Brian
Ketchum, Jack
The Girl Next Door
Kiernan, Caitlín R.
The Drowning Girl
King, Stephen
It
Misery
Night Shift
“The Reach”
The Shining
The Dark Tower
Kipling, Rudyard
“The Phantom ‘Rickshaw”
“The Recrudescence of Imray,”/“The Return of Imray”
“They”
Kirk, Russell
“There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding”
Klein, T. E. D.
The Ceremonies
Dark Gods
Kneale, Nigel
Koja, Kathe
Koontz, Dean
Phantoms
Kuttner, Henry
Lane, Joel
Lansdale, Joe R.
“Lazarus” by Leonid Andreyev
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
Carmilla
“Green Tea”
In a Glass Darkly
“Schalken the Painter”
Lee, Tanith
Lee, Vernon
Leiber, Fritz
Conjure Wife
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”
Our Lady of Darkness
Lewis, Matthew
The Monk
Ligotti, Thomas
“The Last Feast of Harlequin”
Link, Kelly
Long, Frank Belknap
“Lot No. 249” by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lovecraft, H. P.
At the Mountains of Madness
“The Call of Cthulhu”
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“The Colour out of Space”
“The Dunwich Horror”
“The Music of Erich Zann”
“Pickman’s Model”
“The Rats in the Walls”
Machen, Arthur
“The Great God Pan”
“The Novel of the Black Seal”
“The White People”
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
Martin, George R. R.
Sandkings
Matheson, Richard
Hell House
I Am Legend
Maturin, Charles
Melmoth the Wanderer
Maupassant, Guy de
“The Horla”
McCammon, Robert R.
McDowell, Michael
McGrath, Patrick
Metcalfe, John
Meyrink, Gustav
The Golem
Miéville, China
The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
Moore, Alan
Morrell, David
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Morrow, W. C.
“Mr. Arcularis” by Conrad Aiken
Newman, Kim
Nolan, William F.
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Oates, Joyce Carol
O’Brien, Fitz-James
O’Connor, Flannery
“Good Country People”
Oliver, Reggie
Onions, Oliver
The Other by Thomas Tryon
Palahniuk, Chuck
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Poe, Edgar Allan
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
“Ligeia”
“The Masque of the Red Death”
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Quinn, Seabury
Quiroga, Horacio
Radcliffe, Ann
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ray, Jean
Malpertuis
Rice, Anne
Interview with the Vampire
“The Rocking-horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence
Rohmer, Sax
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Russell, Ray
“Sardonicus”
Saki
“Sredni Vashtar”
Samuels, Mark
“The White Hands”
Sarban
Schulz, Bruno
Schweitzer, Darrell
Shea, Michael
Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein
Shiel, M. P.
Shirley, John
“A Short Trip Home” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Silent Snow, Secret Snow” by Conrad Aiken
Simmons, Dan
Carrion Comfort
Song of Kali
Smith, Clark Ashton
The Songs of Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“Thrawn Janet”
Stoker, Bram
Dracula
The Jewel of Seven Stars
Straub, Peter
Ghost Story
Sturgeon, Theodore
Summers, Montague
Tem, Melanie
Tessier, Thomas
Trilby by George du Maurier
“The Vampyre” by John Polidori
VanderMeer, Jeff
Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest
Vathek by William Beckford
Wagner, Karl Edward
Wakefield, H. R.
Walpole, Horace
The Castle of Otranto
Wandrei, Donald
Wellman, Manly Wade
Wells, H. G.
The Invisible Man
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Welty, Eudora
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore
Wharton, Edith
Wheatley, Dennis
The Devil Rides Out
Whitehead, Henry S.
Wilson, F. Paul
Wyndham, John
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman