Most Popular Horror Books of the 1920s

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The Connoisseur and Other Stories

Walter de la Mare

Horror · Short Stories

1926

Mist and Other Ghost Stories

Richmal Crompton

Horror · Short Stories

1928

10.0/10 1 ratings

British Library Tales of the Weird #46

The Undying Monster

Jessie Douglas Kerruish

Horror · Norse Mythology · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Werewolves

1922

8.0/10 1 ratings

Wailing Well

M. R. James

Horror · Vampires

1928

7.0/10 1 ratings

Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery

Sheridan Le Fanu

Horror · Short Stories

1923

7.0/10 1 ratings

The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Horror · Short Stories

1922

6.5/10 2 ratings

The Hands of Orlac

Maurice Renard

Horror · Science Fiction

1929

Old Man's Beard

H. Russell Wakefield

Horror · Short Stories

1929

The Painted Face

Oliver Onions

Horror · Short Stories

1929

Strange Stories

Algernon Blackwood

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1929

Handheld Fantasy Classics #1

The Runagates Club

John Buchan

Fantasy · Horror · Anthology · Collection · Short Stories

October 30, 1928

They Return at Evening

H. Russell Wakefield

Horror · Short Stories

1928

Spook Stories

E. F. Benson

Horror · Short Stories

1928

British Library Tales of the Weird #68

Possessed

Johnny Mains, Rosalie and Edward Synton

Horror

1927

The Dark Chamber

Leonard Cline

Horror

1927

Ghost Stories

Michael Arlen

Horror · Short Stories

1927

The Hand of Horror

Owen Fox Jerome

Horror

1927

Some Ghost Stories

A. M. Burrage

Horror · Short Stories

1927

Lukundoo and Other Stories

Edward Lucas White

Horror · Short Stories

1927

Ancient Sorceries and Other Tales

Algernon Blackwood

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1927

The Dance of Death and Other Tales

Algernon Blackwood

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1927

The Ghost Book #1

The Ghost Book

Cynthia Asquith

Horror · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction

1926

The Secrets of Doctor Taverner

Dion Fortune

Horror · Crime Fiction · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror

1926

Cursed Be the Treasure

H. B. Drake

Horror

1926

More Tales of the Uneasy

Violet Hunt

Horror · Short Stories

1925

The Shadowy Thing

H. B. Drake

Horror

1925

The Green Ray

Vance Thompson

Horror · Science Fiction

1925

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

M. R. James

Horror · Short Stories

1925

Cold Harbour

Francis Brett Young

Horror

1924

Masquerades: Studies in the Morbid

Shane Leslie

Horror · Short Stories

1924

Ghosts in Daylight

Oliver Onions

Horror · Short Stories

1924

Night Fears

L. P. Hartley

Horror · Short Stories

1924

The Glorious Mystery

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories

1924

Ornaments in Jade

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories

1924

Out of the Ages

Devereux Pryce, Gina R Collia

Horror · Ancient Mythology · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Adventure

1923

The Other End

R Ellis Roberts

Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection · Short Stories

1923