Classic horror stories?

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I am a big fan of horror stories, and love classic/old literature. I have read Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein", Bram Stoker's "Dracula" The Grim Fairytales (if that counts), and Many of Edgar Allen Poes works. I am looking for more books similar or of interest to those. I've read stephen kind and darran shan and people like them. So preferably someone new

Answer 1

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Here are some books worth checking out... A mix of old and new(ish). :)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks

Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Green Man by Kingsley Amis

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

I am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

Sweetheart, Sweetheart by Bernard Taylor

The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber

Answer 2

H. P Lovecraft once wrote an essay on "weird fiction," I'd say it is still one of the more extensive reviews of such fiction in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It's easily available in any of the collections of his work.

Oh and read Lovecraft while you're at it.

Answer 3

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