Must-Read Horror Classics
- “The Castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole (1764)
- “Vathek” by William Beckford (1786)
- “The Mysteries of Udolpho” by Ann Radcliffe (1794)
- “The Monk: A Romance” by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1796)
- “Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley (1818)
- “Melmoth the Wanderer” by Charles Maturin (1820)
- “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
- “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde (1890)
- “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen (1894)
- “Dracula” by Bram Stoker (1897)
- “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James (1898)
- “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” by H.P. Lovecraft (1927)
- “At the Mountains of Madness” by H.P. Lovecraft (1936)
- “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
- “Conjure Wife” By Fritz Lieber (1943)
Must-Read Horror Classics
Begin (or continue) your horror literature education with our list of the top 15 classic horror novels published before 1950.