Most Popular Horror Books of the 1940s

The Lurker at the Threshold

H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction

1945

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

H. P. Lovecraft

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

1943

Tales of Piracy, Crime and Ghosts

Daniel Defoe

Horror · Short Stories · Mainstream · Thriller

1945

Out of Space and Time

Clark Ashton Smith

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

1942

Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

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

1945

Genius Loci and Other Tales

Clark Ashton Smith

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

1948

Night's Black Agents

Fritz Leiber

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1947

Dark Carnival

Ray Bradbury

Horror · Short Stories

1947

The Opener of the Way

Robert Bloch

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1945

The Scarf

Robert Bloch

Horror · Psychological Horror · Psychological Thriller · Thriller

1947

The Women of the Wood

A. Merritt

Fantasy · Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1948

The Lottery and Other Stories

Shirley Jackson

Horror · Short Stories

1949

Darker Than You Think

Jack Williamson

Fantasy · Horror

1948

The Vaivaisukko Bride

D Scott-Moncrieff

Horror · Science Fiction · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction

1949

Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories

Marjorie Bowen

Horror · Gothic Horror · Short Stories · Mystery

1949

The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories

A. N. L. Munby

Horror · Short Stories

1949

The Dowry

Maggie Gould

Horror

1949

Things That Go Bump in the Night

Louis Clark Jones

Horror · Short Stories

1949

Life Everlasting and Other Tales of Science, Fantasy and Horror

David H. Keller

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1949

Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural

Algernon Blackwood

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1949

British Library Tales of the Weird #80

The Unwelcome

Claude Seignolle

Horror · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Witches

1948

British Library Tales of the Weird #76

The Black Mirror

Johnny Mains, Winifred Duke

Horror · Crime Fiction · Gothic Horror · Historical Fiction · Thriller

1948

Not for the Squeamish

D Scott-Moncrieff

Horror · Science Fiction · Psychological Horror · Vampires · Weird Fiction

1948

Slayer by Stealth

Wilton Hazzard

Fantasy · Horror · Psychological Horror

1948

Sleep No More: Twelve Stories of the Supernatural

L. T. C. Rolt

Horror · Short Stories

1948

Terror Strikes

N. Wesley Firth

Horror

1948

Spooks in the Valley

Louis Clark Jones

Horror · Short Stories

1948

Fires Burn Blue

Andrew Caldecott

Horror · Short Stories

1948

The Ghostly Tales of Henry James

Henry James

Horror · Short Stories

1948

The Works of M. P. Shiel

M. P. Shiel

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction

1948

The Best Short Stories of M. P. Shiel

M. P. Shiel

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1948

The Travelling Grave and Other Stories

L. P. Hartley

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1948

Not Long for This World

August Derleth

Horror · Short Stories

1948

Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

Arthur Machen

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1948

The Web of Easter Island

Donald Wandrei

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction

1948

Revelations in Black

Carl Jacobi

Horror · Science Fiction · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1947