These horror books in Portuguese are for you if you like a good scare while you practice the language. Vampires, ghosts, monsters and cosmic horror are waiting in free PDFs.
You'll find the giants of the genre, from Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker to H. P. Lovecraft. There is also horror written in Portuguese by authors from Brazil and Portugal, like Álvares de Azevedo.
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Horror Books Written in Portuguese
These horror books were born in Portuguese, written by authors from Brazil and Portugal. They range from the dark romanticism of Álvares de Azevedo to the cruel stories of Machado de Assis and the legends of the Amazon.
In a tavern, a group of drunk young men take turns telling stories of crime, cursed love and death. The masterpiece of Brazilian romantic horror by Álvares de Azevedo, in the edition of Brazil's National Library.
Fortunato tends to the sick with a devotion everyone admires, until a friend discovers the pleasure he takes in other people's pain. One of Machado de Assis's most disturbing stories, short and perfect for reading in Portuguese.
Stories set on the rivers and in the jungle of the Amazon, where legends, witchcraft and the supernatural mix with the violence of daily life. It includes classics like A feiticeira and O baile do judeu, in a clean, easy-to-read edition.
A student traveling by night to São Paulo meets Satan at an inn, and the devil guides him through a world of vice and disillusion. Álvares de Azevedo's fantastic drama, the inseparable companion to Noite na Taverna.
At a gathering where everyone mocks the idea of ghosts, a pale judge agrees to tell what he saw as a young man and could never forget. A little-known ghost story by Machado de Assis, published in 1876.
One night on the banks of the Parnaíba River, an old boatman tells how he saw a pile of bones come together and dance in the middle of the forest. A tale of rural horror and Brazilian folklore by Bernardo Guimarães, told with humor and chills.
Eighteen stories about the obsessions, perversions and secrets hidden in the Rio de Janeiro night at the start of the 20th century. João do Rio's most unsettling book, in a facsimile of the 1910 first edition.
A writer wakes up with eyesight that passes through flesh and begins to see everyone around him as skeletons. A short, macabre story by Humberto de Campos, from 1932.
After dinner in Lisbon, three naval officers and three women argue about whether the supernatural exists, until the conversation takes an unsettling turn. A story by the poet Florbela Espanca, in an illustrated digital edition.
The great horror classics can also be read in Portuguese, several of them in our own Project Aldus editions. Here you'll find Dracula, Frankenstein, Poe's stories and Lovecraft's cosmic horror.
Victor Frankenstein brings a creature to life and flees the moment he sees it move, and the creature, abandoned by everyone, comes back demanding answers. Our own Project Aldus edition, translated into Portuguese from the text Mary Shelley revised in 1831.
Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to close a sale with a count who never eats and never ages, and the horror follows him all the way to England. Our own Project Aldus edition of Bram Stoker's great vampire classic, told through letters and diaries.
A London lawyer investigates the strange bond between the respected Dr. Jekyll and the brutal Mr. Hyde. Stevenson's short novel about the double and the evil we all carry inside, complete in Portuguese.
From his cell, a man tells how drink made him cruel to his cat Pluto and how a second black cat dragged him into murder. Our own Project Aldus edition of one of Poe's darkest stories, ideal for reading in one sitting.
A man answers the call of his childhood friend Roderick Usher and finds a mansion that seems to sicken along with its owners. Our own Project Aldus edition of Poe's most influential gothic tale.
Among his great-uncle's papers, Francis Thurston finds a bas-relief of a tentacled monster and the clues to an ancient cult. Our own Project Aldus edition of the story that started Lovecraft's mythos.
Dorian Gray stays young and beautiful while his portrait, locked away, ages and rots with every one of his sins. Our own Project Aldus edition of Oscar Wilde's only novel, an essential gothic classic.
A governess arrives at an English country house to look after two children and begins to see figures no one else seems to notice. Henry James's most ambiguous and disturbing ghost story, complete in Portuguese.
Laura lives with her father in an isolated castle until a carriage accident brings the beautiful, mysterious Carmilla into their home. The vampire novella that inspired Dracula, complete in Portuguese.
A man swears he isn't mad while telling how he planned, night after night, the death of the old man whose vulture eye he couldn't stand. Our own Project Aldus edition of Poe's most famous monologue, short and intense.
A masked figure haunts the Paris Opera from its cellars and becomes obsessed with the young singer Christine Daaé. Gaston Leroux's gothic novel that inspired the famous musical, complete in Portuguese.
A giant helmet falls from the sky and crushes the heir of Otranto on his wedding day, and an old prophecy begins to come true. Our own Project Aldus edition of the 1764 novel that launched gothic literature.
An English ghost tries to terrify the American family that bought his castle, but no one takes his hauntings seriously. Oscar Wilde's story that mixes horror and humor, ideal for starting to read in Portuguese.
A scientific expedition to Antarctica finds, beyond a range of colossal mountains, the ruins of a city older than humanity. Lovecraft's novella that takes cosmic horror to the polar ice.
Condemned by the Inquisition in Toledo, a prisoner wakes in a dark cell where every trap is designed to drive him mad. One of Poe's most harrowing horror stories, with a Harry Clarke illustration on the cover.
A curse cast during the witch trials haunts the Pyncheon family and their old mansion for generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic novel, complete in Portuguese.
Count Hippolyt marries the pale Aurelia and discovers that his wife slips out at night toward the cemetery. A tale of vampires and ghouls by the German master of the fantastic, E. T. A. Hoffmann.
A man marries Morella, a woman obsessed with mysticism, and when she dies he fears her soul has passed into their daughter. A short Poe tale about death and identity.
In an isolated house in Ireland, a man holds off creatures that crawl out of an abyss and sets out on a journey to the end of the universe. Hodgson's novel that anticipated Lovecraft's cosmic horror.
That was our collection of horror books in Portuguese, from English gothic to the stories of Machado de Assis. We hope you've found your next read for a sleepless night.
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