The horror books in Spanish on this page run from Drácula and Frankenstein to the stories of Horacio Quiroga. They are classics of fear to read in Spanish, in PDF.
You'll find two families: great horror novels translated into Spanish and authors who wrote fear in Spanish. Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft sit next to Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Emilia Pardo Bazán.
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These horror books in Spanish gather the pillars of the genre, from Stoker and Shelley to Poe and Lovecraft. Poe's stories take one evening to read, while the gothic novels ask for more stamina.
Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to sell a house to Count Dracula and finds out who his host really is. Our own Project Aldus edition in Spanish, with a synopsis and reading guide before the epistolary novel.
Victor Frankenstein brings a creature to life, abandons it at once, and the creature comes back demanding answers. Our own Project Aldus edition in Spanish, with a synopsis and reading guide.
A London lawyer looks into the link between the respectable Dr Jekyll and the brutal Edward Hyde. Stevenson's great tale of the double, short and gripping, with a synopsis up front.
A condemned man tells how drink made him cruel to Pluto, his black cat, until it led him to murder. Our own Project Aldus edition in Spanish of a Poe story you can finish in one evening.
A narrator swears he isn't mad while describing how an old man's eye drove him to kill. Our own Project Aldus edition in Spanish, with a synopsis and reading guide for Poe's famous monologue.
A man visits his friend Roderick Usher in a gloomy mansion where Usher's sister is wasting away from an unknown illness. Our own Project Aldus edition in Spanish, with a guide to the poem and the passages read aloud.
The papers of a dead Providence professor reveal a cult devoted to Cthulhu, a creature asleep beneath the ocean. Our own Project Aldus edition in Spanish of the story that founded Lovecraft's cosmic horror.
In a castle in Styria, Laura befriends a young stranger who is as charming as she is unsettling. Le Fanu's vampire novella, published twenty-five years before Dracula.
A governess in charge of two children at an English country house becomes convinced that ghosts are circling them. Henry James leaves the reader to decide between the supernatural and madness.
Dorian Gray stays young while his portrait ages and carries the mark of every sin. Our own Project Aldus edition in Spanish of Oscar Wilde's only novel, with a synopsis and reading guide.
A masked figure haunts the cellars of the Paris Opera and falls for the young singer Christine Daaé. Gaston Leroux's gothic novel, complete in Spanish.
An English ghost tries to frighten the American family that bought his castle, without the slightest success. A funny ghost story, ideal for a first read in Spanish.
A recluse lives in a lonely house in Ireland besieged by creatures that crawl out of a pit. William Hope Hodgson's visionary novel, halfway between supernatural horror and cosmic voyage.
A man watches his wife, steeped in the occult, die giving birth to a daughter who looks far too much like her. A Poe story of just a few pages about death and reincarnation.
Horacio Quiroga is often called the Latin American Poe, and his stories still feel unsettling today. Bécquer, Lugones and Emilia Pardo Bazán round out this look at horror written in Spanish.
Horacio Quiroga's most famous collection, with El Almohadón de Plumas, La Gallina Degollada and A la Deriva. Fifteen stories where the jungle, illness and madness give rise to fear.
Bécquer's legends, including El Monte de las Ánimas, Los Ojos Verdes and Maese Pérez el Organista. Wandering souls, water nymphs and curses in Spanish Romantic prose.
On the Night of the Dead, Beatriz sends her cousin to fetch a ribbon she lost on the Mount of Souls. Bécquer's legend adapted as an illustrated easy read, ideal for beginners in Spanish.
Twelve tales where science tips over into terror, such as La Lluvia de Fuego and Yzur. The 1906 collection that made Leopoldo Lugones a forerunner of Argentine fantasy fiction.
In a Galician village, a seventy-year-old man marries a fifteen-year-old girl, and he is the one who gets his strength back. Emilia Pardo Bazán's vampire story, cruel and ironic.
A young man explains why his father, a scientist obsessed with hypnosis, had him locked away, and what macabre secret his stepmother hid. Rubén Darío's horror story, somewhere between catalepsy and vampirism.
