Reading list: Halloween Book Bingo - Classic Horror Square

Created by: Murder by Death

These are the popularly agreed upon "Classics"; horror stories that have stood the test of time. How much time is probably open to massive debate, so for the purposes of this list and my sanity, I'm going to include only those "classics" that were written before 1970.

This is NOT a rule of the bingo game, merely a guideline for myself when creating the list so as not to end up with a largely duplicative list to Genre: Horror.

If you have titles you think fit this category that you want to recommend, please add them in the comments section and I'll get them on the list asap.

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Books: 44

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Raven and Annabelle Lee

by John Chatty, Edgar Allan Poe

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The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Invisible Man

by H.G. Wells

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and o... - Robert Louis Stevenson, Harry Harrison

The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and other stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Harry Harrison

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The Crawling Chaos

by H.P. Lovecraft

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11.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

by Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann

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The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

by William L. Hedges, Washington Irving

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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

by Henry James

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Carmilla

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Note: Can also be used for:
Gothic square
Genre: Horror square

17.

Melmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H.G. Wells

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19.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

by M. R. James, Everett F. Bleiler (Editor), John MacBride (Illustrator)

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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller

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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Ter... - H.P. Lovecraft

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

by H.P. Lovecraft

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The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine Hedges

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Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

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The Sandman

by E.T.A. Hoffmann

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Uncle Silas

by Victor Sage, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Note: Can also be used for:
Gothic square
Genre: Horror square

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In a Glass Darkly

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Note: Can also be used for:
Gothic square
Genre: Horror square

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The Bottle Imp

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Body Snatcher

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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29.

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Monkey's Paw (Creative Short Stories)

by William Wymark Jacobs;W. W. Jacobs

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The Devil's Elixirs

by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ronald Taylor

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The Castle of Otranto

by Michael Gamer, Horace Walpole

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

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35.

The Signalman: A Ghost Story

by Charles Dickens, Simon Bradley

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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

by Edith Wharton, Laszlo Kubinyi

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The Monk

by Matthew Gregory Lewis

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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

by John William Polidori

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Some of Your Blood

by Steve Rasnic Tem, Theodore Sturgeon

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The Exorcist

by William Peter Blatty

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

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42.

The Halloween Tree

by Ray Bradbury

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43.

The Shining

by Stephen King

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44.

The Haunted Hotel

by Wilkie Collins

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Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 9 years ago

Sheridan Le Fanu: "Uncle Silas" (ISBN 13: 9780140437461; ISBN 10: 0140437460), "In a Glass Darkly" (ISBN 13: 9780192839473; ISBN 10: 0192839470), and "Carmilla" (ISBN 13: 9781504001618) -- all of them also for "Gothic," "Genre: Horror," and "Dark and Stormy Night" (and I could have sworn I'd already listed "Uncle Silas," but apparently not, or I'm now losing track once and for all)

Already listed for other squares, but since you asked which of ones would also be considered "Classic Horror":

Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Bottle Imp" (ISBN 10: 1600964168; ISBN 13: 9781600964169) and the "The Body Snatcher" (ISBN 13: 9781860920011; ISBN 10: 1860920012)
Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Devil's Foot" (ISBN 13: 9781438514840; ISBN 10: 1438514840) and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (ISBN 13: 9780451528018; ISBN 10: 0451528018)
W.W. Jacobs: "The Monkey's Paw" (ISBN 10: 1583419195; ISBN 13: 9781583419199)
E.T.A. Hoffmann: "The Devil's Elixirs" (ISBN 13: 9781847490841; ISBN 10: 1847490840)
Horace Walpole: "The Castle of Otranto (ISBN 13: 9780140437676; ISBN 10: 0140437673)
Ann Radcliffe: "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (ISBN 13: 9780140437591; 0140437592)
Charles Dickens: "The Signalman" (ISBN 10: 1781255911; ISBN 13: 9781781255919)
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton" (ISBN 10: 0684842572; ISBN 13: 9780684842578)

Murder by Death 9 years ago

Added them (I had already gotten Carmilla; I thought I had Uncle Silas too but I think I have a habit of putting the isbn in the search field and just hitting "enter" which saves the page, it doesn't add the books. I think I do this a lot, which would explain all the "I'd swear I already added that one!"). :P

Abandoned by user 9 years ago

What a great list! You did a great job!

Murder by Death 9 years ago

Thanks! I'm pretty sure Themis Athena did at least half the work helping me with finding books. She either has a killer library at home and/or she spent a LOT of time researching books for all the lists. Either way her contribution was invaluable and appreciated! :)

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 9 years ago

Aww, thank you MdB -- it was just the old GR Listopia fiend instincts asserting themselves! :D

My profound kudos to you, though, for having created all these lists in the first place (especially with setting up lists being so much more cumbersome here than on GR). AND thank you so much again for so quickly adding all my extra suggestions, too. Multiple contributor reading lists have definitely made it to the top of my features wish list in the last couple of days!

Most of my suggestions were taken from my BL shelves, btw (which essentially combine my RL library and, as part of my TBR, my Amazon wishlist). Other than the books by R.L. Stine, by whom I've read next to nothing, and a very quick check on the limits of what is considered "gothic," no research was involved ... I'd never have had the time for that!

Murder by Death 9 years ago

I think my RL library wants to be your RL library when it grows up. ;-)

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 9 years ago

I'm not so sure about that -- and anyway, the library corner of my living room wants to be your library / reading room when it grows up, AND my analogue library wants to be your digital one if it ever shape-shifts ...!!

Murder by Death 9 years ago

Lol... but I don't have a digital library! :D We need one of those big rooms that sit in an alternate realm: one giant library of all the books, accessible to everyone with an overstuffed bookshelf.

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 9 years ago

Wow. With the amount of books you go through, I could have *sworn* you have a digital library! That said, I don't either ... and yes, we do need that room, absolutely!

Murder by Death 9 years ago

No, I can't read digitally; doctor's orders. Doesn't really break my heart though; I just don't enjoy digital as much as I do real books. If only I could expand my library shelves the way I can digital memory, lol.

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 9 years ago

Hah. Wouldn't that be awesome!!

8 years ago

I had a hard time deciding this one this year because I read a lot of the classics last year, but I found The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. It's free on Gutenberg.

Murder by Death 8 years ago

Added! :)

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 8 years ago

John William Polidori - "The Vampyre" -- obviously also for "Vampires", in case it's not on that list already.

Murder by Death 8 years ago

Added! :)

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 8 years ago

Thanks!

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 7 years ago

Books from Halloween Bingo 2018 participant reading plan lists posted to date:

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (9780375803017)
The Shining by Stephen King (9780450040184)

Murder by Death 7 years ago

Added. :)

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books 7 years ago

The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins (9781784871154)

Murder by Death 7 years ago

Added.

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