Most Popular Horror Books of the 20th century

Ravenloft

I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire

P. N. Elrod

Fantasy · Horror

1993

Swamp Foetus

Poppy Z. Brite

Horror · Short Stories

1993

Necroscope #2

Necroscope II: Vamphyri!

Brian Lumley

Horror

1988

Classics of the Macabre

Daphne du Maurier

Horror · Short Stories · Mystery

1987

Manitou #1

The Manitou

Graham Masterton

Horror

1975

Peter Straub's Ghosts

Peter Straub

Horror · Anthology

1995

The Wild

Whitley Strieber

Fantasy · Horror

1991

Creed

James Herbert

Horror

1990

Stinger

Robert R. McCammon

Horror · Science Fiction

1988

Halo

Chet Day

Horror

1987

City Jitters

Christopher Fowler

Horror · Short Stories

1986

The Prey

Robert Arthur Smith

Horror

1981

The Elementals

Michael McDowell

Horror

1981

Weird Legacies

Mike Ashley

Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Short Stories

August 30, 1977

Out of Space and Time: Volume 1

Clark Ashton Smith

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1974

The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror

H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1971

The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales

Kathleen Lines

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection

1967

Pan Book of Horror Stories #1

The Pan Book of Horror Stories

Johnny Mains, Herbert van Thal

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Ghosts · Gothic Horror

1959

Out of Space and Time

Clark Ashton Smith

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1942

Sherlock Holmes - The Original Stories #7

The Valley of Fear

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Horror · Cozy Mystery · Crime Fiction · Sherlock Holmes · Historical Fiction

1915

The Monkey's Paw

W. W. Jacobs

Horror

1902

The Armageddon Rag

George R. R. Martin

Fantasy · Horror

1983

H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus #2

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1985

The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1995

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1985

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1938

Anno Dracula #1

Anno Dracula

Kim Newman

Horror · Alternate History

1992

Songs the Dead Men Sing

George R. R. Martin

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1983

Horror-7

Robert Bloch

Horror · Short Stories

1963

The Outsider and Others

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1939

A Night in the Lonesome October

Roger Zelazny

Fantasy · Horror

1993

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1971

Fevre Dream

George R. R. Martin

Fantasy · Horror · Vampires

1982

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Horror

1959

Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1945

David Ash #2

The Ghosts of Sleath

James Herbert

Horror

1994