Classic horror novels

An abandoned creature seeks affection and acceptance, then turns toward revenge as rejection deepens the conflict with its creator.

A solicitor suspects his castle host is not human, before a group confronts the vampire's threat in England.

A lawyer's concern for his friend grows as he investigates a doctor's troubling connection with a violent stranger.

Affection becomes entangled with illness and fear when a mysterious young guest enters a secluded castle household.

At an English country house, a governess sees figures she believes are ghosts and fears for two children.

Youthful beauty conceals growing harm as a man's portrait bears the record of his pursuit of pleasure.

On a Pacific island, a castaway discovers humanlike creatures shaped by a scientist's experiments and governed through fear.

Omens threaten a prince's family as his pursuit of a bride drives her into the castle's hidden passages.

An Antarctic expedition's discoveries beneath the ice lead a geologist to warn others against returning to the region.

Inside a lonely, decaying mansion, a visitor finds his childhood friend consumed by illness and fear.

Scholars and collectors follow ordinary curiosity toward supernatural dangers hidden in old books, churches and objects.

Local stories feed a schoolteacher's fear of a headless rider while rivalry complicates his hopes of marriage.

Inherited papers and a strange carving draw an investigator through dreams, a police raid and a sailor's secret account.

A surveyor hears how a fallen meteorite brought an inexplicable colour and a strange blight to a farm.

Two canoeists shelter on a river island, where unstable ground and rising unease suggest forces beyond human understanding.

Behind a lord's polished manners, a young travelling companion discovers cruelty and begins to recognise the harm following him.

Japanese tales bring supernatural beings into ordinary lives through a musician's mysterious summons, a snow woman and travellers' encounters.

An inquest hears a witness describe a fatal attack by an unseen creature whose movements disturbed the grass.