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