Most Popular Horror Books of the 19th century

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Fantasy · Horror · 19th century · Ghosts · Christmas Fiction

1843

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Horror · Vampires

1897

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Horror

1891

Carmilla

Sheridan Le Fanu

Horror · Gothic Horror · Vampires

1872

The Island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells

Horror · Science Fiction

1896

Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

Horror · Science Fiction · Necromancer

1818

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Horror · Science Fiction

1886

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1895

The Vampyre; A Tale

John William Polidori

Horror · Gothic Horror · Vampires

1819

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde

Horror · Short Stories · Mainstream

1891

Melmoth the Wanderer

Charles Maturin

Horror · Gothic Horror

1820

In a Glass Darkly

Sheridan Le Fanu

Horror · Short Stories

1872

The Brown Hand

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Horror

1899

The Horla

Guy de Maupassant

Horror · 19th century · Psychological Horror · Historical Fiction

1887

Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

Sweeney Todd

Thomas Preskett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, David Stuart Davies, Dick Collins

Horror · Gothic Horror · Historical Fiction · Mystery · Romance

1847

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

Horror · Ghosts

1898

The Lifted Veil

George Eliot

Horror · 19th century · Psychological Horror · Historical Fiction · Mystery

1859

Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

Wagner the Werewolf

George W. M. Reynolds

Horror · Gothic Horror · Werewolves

1847

The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories · Mystery

1894

The Ring of Thoth

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Horror · Egyptian Mythology · Gothic Horror · Weird Fiction · Mythology

1890

The Maker of Moons

Robert W. Chambers

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1896

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Horror

1892

The Phantom Ship

Frederick Marryat

Horror · 19th century · Ghosts · Werewolves · Historical Fiction

1838

At a Winter's Fire

Bernard Capes

Horror · Short Stories

1899

The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales

Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Horror · Short Stories

1898

The Blood of the Vampire

Florence Marryat

Horror

1897

Shapes in the Fire

M. P. Shiel

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1896

The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories

1895

The Mark O' the Deil, and Other Northumbrian Tales.

Howard Pease

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1894

The Haunted Station, and other stories

Hume Nisbet

Horror · 19th century · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror

1894

The Dead Man's Message: An Occult Romance

Florence Marryat

Horror

1894

The Watcher and Other Weird Stories

Sheridan Le Fanu

Horror · Short Stories

1894

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Ambrose Bierce

Fantasy · Horror · Gothic Horror · Short Stories · Mainstream

1892

Nightmare Tales

H. P. Blavatsky

Horror · Short Stories

1892

Là-Bas

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Horror · Mainstream

1891

Stories and Interludes

Barry Pain

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1891