Paranormal horror books scare you with what shouldn't exist: curses passed down for generations, mummies that wake up, and forces no one can explain. This is supernatural horror at its source, the paranormal fiction that came long before modern thrillers.
These are the novels and stories that built the genre. Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson and Sheridan Le Fanu turned the unexplained into some of the most unsettling pages in literature.
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These paranormal horror books go beyond the usual ghost story, with Egyptian curses, shape-shifting creatures and the Great God Pan. Start with The Turn of the Screw, then try Machen's The House of Souls or Bierce's Can Such Things Be?
A governess in a remote country house becomes convinced that two ghosts want the children in her care. Henry James never tells you if they are real, which is exactly why this novella still unsettles readers.
A curse laid by a man hanged for witchcraft haunts the Pyncheon family and their gloomy mansion for two centuries. Hawthorne's classic shows how guilt and old sins can poison a house.
An American family buys a haunted English castle and refuses to be scared, leaving its centuries-old ghost humiliated. Wilde's funny and surprisingly tender take on the haunted house story, with the original illustrations.
Strange accidents, a box no one may use and a voice from the walls terrify the Paris Opera. Leroux's novel follows the mysterious Opera Ghost and his obsession with a young singer.
A shape-shifting creature from Egypt stalks a rising politician through London, told by four narrators who each see a piece of the horror. In 1897 it outsold Dracula, and it is just as gripping today.
Machen's essential collection, with The Great God Pan, The White People and The Inmost Light. Stories where ancient forces leak into ordinary lives, admired by Lovecraft and Stephen King.
Philip Vanderdecken sails the oceans to free his father from the curse of the Flying Dutchman. A seafaring novel full of omens, a werewolf episode and a doomed ghost ship.
The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder and The Signal-Man, Dickens at his eeriest. The Signal-Man, about a railway worker haunted by a warning spirit, is one of the best ghost stories in English.
Scholars, old books and cursed relics: M. R. James's first collection includes Lost Hearts and Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad. The model for the English ghost story.
Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane rides home through a haunted valley and meets the Headless Horseman. Irving's tale of rural superstition is the original American ghost legend.
An Egyptologist falls into a trance after a night attack, and his daughter seems linked to a mummified queen who wants to return. Stoker's mummy novel is a slow, eerie build toward the great experiment.
Twenty-four tales of the unexplained, from an invisible killer in The Damned Thing to the haunting An Inhabitant of Carcosa. Bierce's short, sharp stories never explain too much.
On a transatlantic steamer, every passenger who sleeps in cabin 105 goes overboard. Crawford's famous sea ghost story, followed here by his tale By the Waters of Paradise.
A sailor joins the Mortzestus and soon sees shadowy figures climbing out of the sea onto the ship. Hodgson, a former sailor himself, turns a voyage into a slow siege by something not of this world.
A Venetian palace turned hotel hides a crime, and the guests who sleep in one room suffer terrible dreams. Collins mixes mystery and the supernatural in this short, atmospheric novel.
After a fright near an empty house, a young boy falls unconscious and his spirit wanders a strange dream world. Blackwood's first novel blends childhood terror with the uncanny.
On the Night of All Souls, the dead Templars of Soria rise from their tombs. A short Spanish legend by Becquer about a cruel dare and its ghostly price.
Few people know this subgenre, but paranormal investigators were solving cases long before ghost-hunting shows. Carnacki, John Silence and Dr. Hesselius face the supernatural with science, ritual and nerve.
Six cases of Thomas Carnacki, who fights haunted rooms and invisible horses with an electric pentacle and ancient rituals. The most famous occult detective of the Edwardian era.
Five cases from the papers of Dr. Martin Hesselius, the first occult detective in fiction, including Green Tea and the vampire novella Carmilla. Le Fanu's masterpiece of psychological and supernatural dread.
Dr. John Silence treats patients whose troubles come from beyond: psychic attacks, ancient fire spirits and a werewolf on a lonely island. Five cases that mix occult knowledge with real compassion.
A London nerve specialist cures cases of vampirism, reincarnation and psychic attack with occult methods. Written by an occultist who based Taverner on her own teacher.
Moris Klaw solves crimes by sleeping where they happened and reading the thoughts left behind. Ten cases of cursed relics, mummies and hauntings by the creator of Fu Manchu.
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