Welcome, thrill-seeker! Prepare to dive into the captivating universe of horror books, where each story will make you question shadows and nocturnal noises.
Our catalog is a true treasure for fans of horror books. We offer a selection that will shake your nerves and awaken your deepest fears.
But horror books aren’t just about fear. Here, you’ll find books that will not only terrify you, but also make you think, reflect, and sometimes even move you.
Want to explore the mind of a serial killer? Or perhaps you prefer haunted houses and restless spirits? Are you intrigued by creatures of the night or science fiction tales with a dark twist? We have horror books for all tastes.
So, if you’re ready to challenge your fears and immerse yourself in a reading you won’t be able to escape from, you’re in the right place. Browse, discover, and download the horror books waiting for you.
Happy scares!
1) Children's Horror Books
Because fear and terror are not just a matter for adults, we have created a collection of children’s horror books for everyone at home to enjoy.
Several of the classic horror books are considered suitable for reading to the youngest members of the family, as they are stories with the element of fear and intrigue; some of them are even short readings.
We invite you to review our list and choose the stories that may be more in line with your child’s age and maturity to face fears.
2) Cosmic Horror Books
In cosmic horror books, you will find unfathomable worlds, parallel dimensions, and dreams that crystallize and derive from episodes of madness. Ancestral beings that awaken and alter the established order.
Unlike other types of horror stories, in cosmic horror books, there are usually no heroes, and no man is relevant enough to decide his own destiny.
This type of horror does not focus entirely on deities, but can also be a natural phenomenon, such as thunder, a volcano, or an eclipse, so it is cosmic, of the cosmos as a whole. If you wish to enter a totally different world of horror, we invite you to take a look at this section.
3) Ghost Horror Books
When we are in the dark, most of us can sometimes feel as if some presence is there, and we begin to see silhouettes that our brain little by little gives a really dark shape.
Perhaps that is why there is a fear of the dark, of the unknown, and not knowing what we can find. How many ghosts have we been able to imagine?! Not only in moments of darkness, even during the day, and sometimes we can doubt if it is really a figment of our imagination.
If you are one of those who like “stories from beyond”, where ghosts have their most fearsome appearances, with supernatural, demonic, or religious elements, we bring you our collection of ghost horror books in PDF.
4) Gothic Horror Books
Gothic literature has left us with great works, and in one way or another, it has accompanied us throughout the centuries. Great classics and popular modern horror works have acquired and shared their distinctive features.
In gothic horror books, the stories are primarily set in dark, decadent, and ruinous environments. These environments can be cemeteries, wastelands, gloomy forests, crypts, and castles.
The spaces and environments are varied, but always generate in the characters feelings of anxiety and strangeness. These stories can be fed by popular legends and paranormal figures such as witches, ghosts, and vampires.
5) Horror and Romance Books
Can’t there be romance in horror stories? Of course, there is, and you can enjoy this excellent combination in our list of horror and romance books.
Stories of this type combine romance with paranormal or supernatural elements and characters and the setting and style of storytelling are inspired by the gothic novel.
Not only will you find passionate and dedicated lovers, but also vampires, sorcery, and ghosts, among others, will be part of the story. You will be able to enjoy unconventional love affairs.
6) Horror and Science Fiction Books
Horror and Science Fiction are two genres that have managed to integrate and link in such a way that their mixture has given birth to great stories.
In the horror genre, the stories take on fear as a central element of the plot. On the other hand, science fiction tries to speculate about the future, space, and everything it contains, or about strange elements, parallel realities…
The mix of the characteristics of both genres in the development of the stories makes them unique and amazingly creepy works, you can enjoy this plot in our collection of Horror and Science Fiction books.
7) Horror Books for Halloween
Halloween has been expanding from Ireland (its possible origin), from Europe to the United States, and more recently in Latin America.
Many symbols with different meanings are used. The main ones are pumpkins with a malevolent expression with a light inside, witches, black cats, ghosts, skulls, and costumes.
Many of these elements and even the inspiration for your decorations and costumes can be found in our list of horror books for Halloween.
8) Horror Books for Teenagers
The horror genre is one of the most captivating in reading, especially since you can enjoy it from a very young age, such as adolescence. During this age, we feel braver and this drives us to want to know and share stories of this kind.
You can take advantage of this desire to develop the habit of reading in an entertaining and chilling way. Some of these stories you may already know from their movie, but you only got a taste of what you’ll find in teen horror books.
Perhaps you are one of those who like terror but not enough to lose sleep, or, you are from a team that does not care and likes feeling fear to the fullest. In our collection, you will find free stories for all levels of fear.
9) Horror Books with Haunted Houses
Haunted houses are so called because paranormal phenomena such as apparitions, noises, movements of objects, etc., occur inside them.
Most of us, when we see an abandoned house or property, with an old style, we are intrigued, and even more, if it is a house with stories that go beyond our reasoning.
Haunted houses are a propitious setting for the development of great stories. Homes are supposed to generate a warm, family-like atmosphere, however, this is not the case in horror books with haunted houses.
10) Horror Books Written by Women
When we think of horror books it is very easy to think of great authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, or H.P. Lovecraft. But they are not the only ones, there are also excellent horror books written by women.
It is not so easy for authors to awaken in us the feeling of terror while we immerse ourselves in reading, to make us look out of the corner of our eyes to check that there is no strange presence around us.
But they have done it, and in recognition of their work, we have decided to create this section for you to get to know new horror stories and the authors behind them.
11) Horror Short Stories
Stories capable of causing fear, shocks and chills are also present in short texts. Horror short stories are one of the most widely read groups, mainly due to the interest they arouse in the general reading public.
With narratives that generate fear, the authors of these books manage to activate the minds and perceptions of the readers, taking them to an unparalleled level of emotion and exaltation.
If you like this type of emotion, you should not miss this collection of free horror short stories. All are ideal to raise your adrenaline levels.
12) Paranormal Horror Books
Terror and paranormal events are the perfect combination, they are out of logic stories, unreasonable, and at the same time chilling and terrifying. Perhaps many of our nightmares are fueled by this type of reading.
Paranormal events or phenomena are those that science cannot explain, and perhaps that lack of explanation is what most attracts our attention.
With paranormal horror books, you won’t stop being amazed at the wit of the authors to describe in the darkest way the manifestation of evil and the fight that will take place to try to defeat it.
13) Psychological Horror Books
There are fears that are in us and accompany us in the darkness. We are in bed and they are waiting for us impatiently behind the door. These fears, inspired by childhood trauma or by specific stories, end up getting deeper. They are the shadow in the distance with which the writer has to play to make psychological horror an art.
These kinds of fears are formed in our minds, attend to our subjective world and move away from the most graphic horror. Since it is not presented by monsters, witches, vampires, zombies, haunted houses and industrial quantities of blood.
It is usually considered that the pioneering author of this modality was the great American storyteller Edgar Allan Poe, who through stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Man of the Crowd or The Imp of the Perverse, among others, found a new way to make the traditional Gothic novel obsolete.
14) Suspense Books
Suspense is a narrative technique that manages to keep us hooked, it is like a power of seduction that the authors strategically employ to captivate us in the development of the story.
Aside from fear, another characteristic of the horror genre is suspense. We experience it, for example, when we do not know what may happen to the characters, it generates in us questions that for the moment will not have an answer and forces us to stay in the reading until we find out.
If you are one of those who are fascinated by that feeling or state of uncertainty, doubt, anxiety, feeling a certain degree of tension, you can not miss the Horror and Suspense Books we have available for you for free.
15) Horror Books in French
The literary genre of terror has as its main objective to provoke fear in readers, in fact, the main characteristic of this genre is the effect it generates in the audience, which we refer to as fear.
Horror books are distinguished by managing to affect the thoughts of the people who read them, through the events that the story covers; these events can be executed by human characters or not.
According to what experts say, a character of supernatural origin or belonging to the monster category is not required to terrify readers. You can see this and enjoy it in each of the categories ofhorror books that we have put together for you.
Enjoy this selection of 15 horror books in French.
16) Horror Books in Portuguese
The literary genre of terror has as its main objective to provoke fear in readers, in fact, the main characteristic of this genre is the effect it generates in the audience, which we refer to as fear.
Horror books are distinguished by managing to affect the thoughts of the people who read them, through the events that the story covers; these events can be executed by human characters or not.
According to what experts say, a character of supernatural origin or belonging to the monster category is not required to terrify readers. You can see this and enjoy it in each of the categories ofhorror books that we have put together for you.
Enjoy this selection of 15 horror books in Portuguese.
17) Horror Books in Spanish
The literary genre of terror has as its main objective to provoke fear in readers, in fact, the main characteristic of this genre is the effect it generates in the audience, which we refer to as fear.
Horror books are distinguished by managing to affect the thoughts of the people who read them, through the events that the story covers; these events can be executed by human characters or not.
According to what experts say, a character of supernatural origin or belonging to the monster category is not required to terrify readers. You can see this and enjoy it in each of the categories ofhorror books that we have put together for you.
Enjoy this selection of 15 horror books in Spanish.
18) Vampire Books
Vampires have an aura of darkness and charm that has captivated many readers of vampire literature. It is that effect of fear, combined with an inevitable attraction that has captured the public’s attention for centuries.
The figure of the vampire comes from literature and its origins date back to the 18th century, although it was the 19th century that produced the narrative stories that would make way for Bram Stoker’s great Dracula.
The 20th century was not left behind, it was during this period that a creature that was completely demonic and despicable was humanized even more. Since then, it has not stopped evolving and today, many authors continue to amaze us with vampire stories.
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