 | The Monk (Oxford World's Classics) by Matthew Lewis
Buy used from: $0.29 Considered by many to be the grandfather of the modern horror novel.
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 | Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics) by Charles Robert Maturin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.15 A man wanders the earth searching for one to pass his curse upon.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $0.89 The most famous of vampire tales as well as one of the best novels in the English language.
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 | The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford Books of Prose)
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $3.25 This hearty volume traces the history of the gothic story from the 1800's to today.
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 | 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (100 Stories)
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $2.37 Perfect book to keep at your bedside. Plenty here to chew on; Bierce, Poe, Irving, Leiber, Lovecraft...need I continue?
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 | A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ambrose Bierce
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 Lately I haven't been able to get enough horror from this era. If you are unfamiliar, this is a nice and affordable introduction.
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 | Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $4.98 What list on the macabre would be complete without Poe?
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 | Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood by Algernon Blackwood
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.85 "The Willows" & "The Wendigo" are two of the most atmospheric tales of dark fiction.
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 | The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.85 No one painted a horror story in such a way as Lovecraft. "The Colour From Out Of Space" will give you chills.
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 | Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.84 While not generally known as a horror writer, tales like "The Metamorphosis" & "In The Penal Colony" fall nicely into the genre.
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 | Come Along with Me by Shirley Jackson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.33 "The Lottery" and "The Summer People" are masterpieces of the macabre.
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 | The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 "That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun." Welcome to the October Country.
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 | The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.01 Nice collection of horror stories in the pulp tradition.
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 | The Mammoth Book of Terror (Mammoth Books)
Buy used from: $0.99 I'm crazy for these Mammoth books. Stephen Jones is a masterful editor.
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 | Classic Horror Stories: Sixteen Legendary Stories of the Supernatural
Buy used from: $0.01 Kipling, Bierce, Poe, Hawthorne and even the Old Testament contribute to this nice collection. An all-around nifty book.
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 | Hell House by Richard Matheson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.48 Imagine a gritty version of Shirley Jackson's Haunting Of Hill House, and you have a good idea what we have here.
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 | The Dark Descent by Clive Barker
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.58 If you're to get only one book in this list, this should be the one. An exhaustive collection if there ever was one.
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