21 best-selling horror books like The House of the Worm by Mearle Prout

The House of the Worm

By: Mearle Prout

3.90

Format: None pages, None

The story tells of two men, and their struggle against an otherworldly blight that originated in a …

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Cover of The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch

1. The Opener of the Way

By: Robert Bloch

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Opener of the Way is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories and was the author's firs… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror
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2. The Hunters from Beyond

By: Clark Ashton Smith

3.63

Format: 32 pages,

first published in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, October 1932. read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror
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3. The Nameless City

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.62

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first publishe… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City

"But as always in my strange and roving existence, wonder soon drove out fear; for the luminous abyss and what it might contain presented a problem worthy of the greatest explorer."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City

"When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corps…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City

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4. The Picture in the House

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.50

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

The Picture in the House by Howard Phillips Lovecraft read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror
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5. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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6. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. The Last Test

By: H.P. Lovecraft , None

2.00

Format: None pages, ebook

read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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8. The Black Stone

By: Robert E. Howard

4.17

Format: None pages,

A marvelous rendition of the short story the Black Stone by Conan author Robert E. Howard. You can … read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror
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9. The Glamour of the Snow

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

He slowly turned bewildered, heavy eyes upon the desolate mountains, stared dizzily about him, trie… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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10. Out of the Aeons

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Hazel Heald

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

"Out of the Aeons" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, a writer from Somerville, M… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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11. The Man of Stone

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Hazel Heald

4.82

Format: None pages,

Minimally illustrated. read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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12. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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13. In the Walls of Eryx

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.91

Format: 163 pages,

"In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, written in January 1936 and first publis… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror

14. The Cairn on the Headland

By: Robert E. Howard

3.93

Format: 192 pages,

Excerpt: And the next instant this great red loon was shaking me like a dog shaking a rat. "Where i… read more

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15. The Mezzotint

By: M.R. James

5.00

Format: 646 pages,

This short story of the supernatural was originally published in 1904. It concerns a university don… read more

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16. The Hounds of Tindalos

By: Frank Belknap Long

3.19

Format: None pages,

Frank Belknap Long wrote a number of early Cthulhu Mythos stories. These included "The Hounds of Ti… read more

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17. The Whisperer in Darkness

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Ar… read more

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18. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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19. Smee: A Short Story

By: A.M. Burrage

3.76

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Smee is a crackling ghost story about a guest in a haunted house telling other visitors of the deat… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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20. I, the Vampire

By: Henry Kuttner

3.60

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

The best of Henry Kuttner's horror tales show no influence other than his own imagination: ‘‘I, the… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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21. The House of Shadows

By: Mary Elizabeth Counselman

3.63

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

22. The Red God Laughed

By: Thorp McClusky

3.79

Format: None pages, Magazine Entry

"A strange tale about the end of human life on Earth." Short story published in Weird Tales abou… read more

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  • short stories
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23. The Epiphany of Death

By: Clark Ashton Smith

3.04

Format: None pages, ebook

This story is about a man who accompanies his friend down into his ancestral catacombs. Before ent… read more

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24. The House of the Worm

By: Mearle Prout

3.90

Format: None pages, None

The story tells of two men, and their struggle against an otherworldly blight that originated in a … read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror

25. The Shadow from the Steeple

By: Robert Bloch

3.64

Format: 20 pages, None

None read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Dig Me No Grave by Robert E. Howard

26. Dig Me No Grave

By: Robert E. Howard

3.61

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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27. The Curse of Yig (Dark Adventure Radio Theatre)

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.07

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

A student of Native American lore investigates shadowy tales of the snake god of an extinct tribe o… read more

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  • horror
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28. The Space-Eaters

By: Frank Belknap Long

3.50

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Space-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide rang… read more

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29. Evening Primrose

By: John Collier

3.62

Format: 14 pages, Kindle Edition

A writer decides to encamp in a local department store to save on room and board, but mainly to fin… read more

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30. The Transfer

By: Algernon Blackwood

2.92

Format: 10 pages, Kindle Edition

I heard the curious little wail of the child's crying, with the effect, wholly unaccountable, that … read more

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31. The Creeper in the Crypt

By: Robert Bloch

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Psycho, a Lovecraftian tale of Arkham, town of eldritch horrors and monsters. Ga… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"The life of a painter demands solitude"

-Robert Bloch, The Creeper in the Crypt

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Robert Bloch

3.78

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Clark Ashton Smith

3.63

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The Nameless City

H.P. Lovecraft

3.62

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H.P. Lovecraft

3.50

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Oval Portrait

Edgar Allan Poe

3.94

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The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

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Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

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