Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

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A handful of humorous ghost stories of the Victorian Era. Some of these stories are creepy and more moralistic than scary.

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A collection of eight humorist ghost stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by John Kendrick Bangs.

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Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basil Hallward. Once the painting is complete, Dorian realizes that it will always be young and attractive, while he aged and wither with the years. Carelessly, he wishes the opposite were true. A treatise on morals, self-indulgence and personal responsibility.

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In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purpose of destroying the world and delivering it to ancient gods to rule, and only an aged university librarian can stop them. The Dunwich Horror was first published in 1929 in Weird Tales.

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Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature, Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery.

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The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race". It is a novel about the deeply religious residents of a small village in Austria during the late sixteenth century and what happened to several of them when a strange man began to visit their insulated homeland.

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Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910. Some of the stories deal with the intellectual fashions of the day, the rest of the stories are in New York City, in what Wharton calls "the soul-deadening ugliness of the Middle West."

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This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories and several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of Buddhist Proverbs and explaining the use of incense and the nationwide fascination with poetry.

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A delightfully humourous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts by John Kendrick Bangs.

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In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Syme is lead to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. The Council consisting of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday.

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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

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The novel tells the story of Nine Gothic Horror Tales by the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker.

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Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here and The Signal Man is one of the best known.

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Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemistry, personal life has been marred by sorrow. He is haunted by his ghostly twin, who offers him the opportunity to forget completely all sorrow, wrong and trouble, claiming that this will make him happier.

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This is a collection of ghost stories in which the antagonists are various animals. Divided up into chapters of ghost sightings by each group of animals, you will hear of haunting by dogs, cats, birds, jungle animals, etc.

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A novelette by H. P. Lovecraft in the horror fiction genre. Written on October 16–19, 1924, it was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. The Shunned House of the title is based on an actual house in Providence, Rhode Island, built around 1763 and still standing at 135 Benefit Street.

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