Speculative Fiction > Horror

Sub-Genres of Horror

• Horror > Gothic Horror
• Horror > Haunted House
• Horror > on Horror
• Horror > Supernatural
• Horror > Vampires

Featured Authors

• H.P. Lovecraft
• Richard Matheson
• Jack Finney
• Stephen King
• Peter Straub

    Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft

This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction have been waiting for: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's morst horrifying visions including The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Colour Out of Space, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time and more.

Genre: Horror

    The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers--and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

Genre: Haunted House, Horror

    The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H.P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales.

Year: 1919
Genre: Horror

    I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.

Year: 1954
Genre: Horror, Vampires

    The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, the family cat becomes a predatory menace, and Scott must struggle to survive in a world that seems to be growing ever larger and more perilous--until he faces the ultimate limits of fear and existence.

Year: 1956
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

    Psycho by Robert Bloch

Norman Bates loves his Mother. She has been dead for the past twenty years, or so people think. Norman knows better though. He has lived with Mother ever since leaving the hospital in the old house up on the hill above the Bates motel.

Year: 1959
Genre: Horror