| Christopher Marlowe |
Doctor Faustus (c. 1592) |
| William Shakespeare |
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1606) |
| John Webster |
The White Devil (1612) |
| William Godwin |
Caleb Williams (1794) |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis |
The Monk (1796) |
| Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann |
The Best Tales of Hoffmann (1814-16) |
| Jane Austen |
Northanger Abbey (1817) |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
Frankenstein (1818) |
| Charles Maturin |
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) |
| James Hogg |
The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Twice-Told Tales (1837) |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1838) |
| Jeremias Gotthelf |
The Black Spider (1842) |
| Eugene Sue |
The Wandering Jew (1844-45) |
| Herman Melville |
The Confidence Man (1857) |
| Sheridan Le Fanu |
Uncle Silas (1864) |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) |
| H. Rider Haggard |
She (1887) |
| Robert W. Chambers |
The King in Yellow (1895) |
| H. G. Wells |
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) |
| Bram Stoker |
Dracula (1897) |
| Henry James |
The Turn of the Screw (1898) |
| Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness (1902) |
| Bram Stoker |
The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) |
| M. R. James |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) |
| Arthur Machen |
The House of Souls (1906) |
| Algernon Blackwood |
John Silence (1908) |
| G. K. Chesterton |
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) |
| William Hope Hodgson |
The House on the Borderland (1908) |
| Ambrose Bierce |
Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
(1909) |
| Oliver Onions |
Widdershins (1911) |
| E. F. Benson |
The Horror Horn (1912-34) |
| David Lindsay |
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) |
| Franz Kafka |
The Trial (1925) |
| James Branch Cabell |
Something About Eve (1929) |
| E. H. Visiak |
Medusa (1929) |
| Guy Endore |
The Werewolf of Paris (1933) |
| Marjorie Bowen |
The Last Bouquet (1933) |
| Alexander Laing |
The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck (1934) |
| Hugh Walpole, ed. |
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1937) |
| C. S. Lewis |
The Dark Tower (c. 1938) |
| Dalton Trumbo |
Johnny Got His Gun (1939) |
| H. P. Lovecraft |
The Outsider and Others (1939) |
| Clark Ashton Smith |
Out of Space and Time (1942) |
| Fritz Leiber |
Conjure Wife (1943) |
| Cornell Woolrich |
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945) |
| H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth |
The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) |
| Paul Bailey |
Deliver Me from Eva (1946) |
| Boris Karloff, ed. |
And the Darkness Falls (1946) |
| August Derleth, ed. |
The Sleeping and the Dead (1947) |
| Walter Van Tilburg Clark |
Track of the Cat (1949) |
| Sarban |
The Sound of His Horn (1952) |
| William Golding |
Lord of the Flies (1954) |
| Richard Matheson |
I Am Legend (1954) |
| Ray Bradbury |
The October Country (1955) |
| Joseph Payne Brennan |
Nine Horrors and a Dream (1958) |
| Robert Bloch |
Psycho (1959) |
| Nigel Kneale |
Quatermass and the Pit (1959) |
| H. P. Lovecraft |
Cry Horror! (1959) |
| Shirley Jackson |
The Haunting of Hill House (1959) |
| Philip K. Dick |
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) |
| Jerzy Kosinski |
The Painted Bird (1965) |
| J. G. Ballard |
The Crystal World (1966) |
| Robert Aickman |
Sub Rosa (1968) |
| Kingsley Amis |
The Green Man (1969) |
| Anthony Boucher |
The Complete Werewolf (1969) |
| John Gardner |
Grendel (1971) |
| William Peter Blatty |
The Exorcist (1971) |
| John Brunner |
The Sheep Look Up (1972) |
| Manly Wade Wellman |
Worse Things Waiting (1973) |
| Robert Marasco |
Burnt Offerings (1973) |
| Stephen King |
Salem's Lot (1975) |
| Harlan Ellison |
Deathbird Stories (1975) |
| Hugh B. Cave |
Murgunstrumm and Others (1977) |
| Bernard Taylor |
Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977) |
| John Farris |
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By (1977) |
| Stephen King |
The Shining (1977) |
| William Hjortsberg |
Falling Angel (1977) |
| Whitley Streiber |
The Wolfen (1978) |
| David Morrell |
The Totem (1979) |
| Peter Straub |
Ghost Story (1979) |
| Jonathan Carroll |
The Land of Laughs (1980) |
| Richard Laymon |
The Cellar (1980) |
| Thomas Harris |
Red Dragon (1981) |
| F. Paul Wilson |
The Keep (1981) |
| Dennis Etchison |
The Dark Country (1982) |
| Karl Edward Wagner |
In a Lonely Place (1983) |
| Tim Powers |
The Anubis Gates (1983) |
| Robert Erwin |
The Arabian Nightmare (1983) |
| Iain Banks |
The Wasp Factory (1984) |
| T. E. D. Klein |
The Ceremonies (1984) |
| Robert Holdstock |
Mythago Wood (1984) |
| Michael Bishop |
Who Made Stevie Crye? (1984) |
| Dan Simmons |
Song of Kali (1985) |
| Clive Barker |
The Damnation Game (1985) |
| Peter Ackroyd |
Hawksmoor (1985) |
| Lisa Tuttle |
A Nest of Nightmares (1986) |
| Charles N. Grant |
The Pet (1986) |
| Robert McCammon |
Swan Song (1987) |
| Ramsey Campbell |
Dark Feasts (1987) |
