Haunted house books are as old as horror itself, and they still work. It all started with The Castle of Otranto, the 1764 novel that made the haunted castle famous.
In these stories, the house is a character, not just a setting. Pick a long novel by Hawthorne or Henry James, or a short story by Poe, Dickens or Lovecraft.
If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, these are the classics that came before it. Every book is free to read online or download in PDF.
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Haunted House Novels
These haunted house novels give the house plenty of time to work on you. Follow cursed families and brave tenants from Otranto's castle to Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables.
The 1764 novel that started gothic fiction. A giant helmet falls from the sky, portraits walk out of their frames, and the castle itself seems determined to punish the family that stole it.
A young peasant volunteers to spend three nights in the sealed east wing of Lovel Castle, where groans and a ghostly armored figure point to a buried crime. One of the first gothic novels, written in 1778 as a reply to Otranto.
A decaying New England mansion carries a curse laid by a man hanged for witchcraft, and every generation of the Pyncheon family pays for it. Hawthorne's classic about a house that remembers its sins.
No tenant lasts long at River Hall, and the law clerk sent to solve the problem decides to sleep there himself. A Victorian ghost novel that mixes real chills with sharp humor about lawyers and landlords.
A Venetian palace is turned into a luxury hotel, and the guests in one room start having terrible dreams. Wilkie Collins builds a ghost story around a death that nobody can explain.
A governess at the isolated country estate of Bly becomes convinced that two ghosts are after the children in her care. Henry James never tells you if she is right, which is why the story still unsettles readers.
A recluse in a remote Irish house fights off swine-like creatures that climb out of the pit below it, then gets pulled into a vision of the end of the universe. A haunted house novel that turns into cosmic horror.
One house, one night, one story. These haunted house short stories by Poe, Bulwer-Lytton, Stoker and Lovecraft are perfect for reading before the lights go out.
A man visits his sick childhood friend in a crumbling mansion that seems to share its owner's fate. Poe's most famous tale, where the house and the family collapse together.
A skeptic spends the night in a London house that no tenant can stand for more than three days, and finds out exactly why. Published in 1859, it is often called the best haunted house story of the Victorian era.
A group of friends rents a house with a bad reputation and each one spends the night in a different room. This 1859 Christmas collection was written by Dickens with Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and other writers.
A nurse tells how she and a little orphan girl moved into a cold manor in the fells, where a phantom child knocks at the windows on winter nights. A classic Victorian ghost story about a family secret.
An American family buys an English castle, ghost included, and refuses to be scared. Wilde's comic take on the haunted house, where the ghost ends up being the victim.
A student rents an old house that once belonged to a cruel hanging judge, hoping for peace and quiet to study. The rats in the walls and the portrait over the fireplace have other plans.
A woman confined to an upstairs room of a rented colonial mansion starts seeing someone trapped behind the wallpaper. A short, disturbing story about a house that slowly takes over a mind.
An aunt and her nephew spend a night in an empty house where a murder was committed, waiting to see what happens. The title story opens Blackwood's first collection of ghost tales.
A gentle ghost couple wanders the rooms of the house they once shared, looking for something they left behind. A very short and lyrical story, perfect for a single sitting.
A house in Providence has killed its tenants one by one for over a century, and a man and his uncle decide to spend the night in its cellar. Lovecraft's take on the classic haunted house story.
The last of the de la Poer line restores his family's ancestral priory and starts hearing rats scurrying inside the walls. What lies beneath the house is far worse.
A math student rents the attic room where a witch once lived, and its odd angles start opening doors to other dimensions. Lovecraft mixes the haunted house with cosmic horror.
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