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• Horror Story, and Other Horror Stories (c2008), by Robert Boyczuk (PDF with commentary at chizine.com)
• September and Other Stories (c2007), by Julie Ann Dawson (HTML at publicbookshelf.com)
• Legends of Terror! And Tales of the Wonderful and the Wild (London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826) (page images at Google)
• Tales of Terror (London: Chatto and Windus, 1899), by Dick Donovan
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• Tales of Terror, or the Mysteries of Magic: A Selection of Wonderful and Supernatural Stories, Translated from the Chinese, Turkish, and German (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Gaylord, 1833), ed. by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncanny Tales (cover title is "Uncanny Stories"; London: C. A. Pearson, Ltd. 1916), contrib. by E. R. Punshon, W. G. Litt, C. S. Jarvis, Cecil Morgan, Margaret Strickland, M. E. Royce, Roy Vickers, Lewis Lister, and G. B. Stern (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (C. Scribner's sons, 1903), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of terror (Small, Maynard, 1925), by Joseph Lewis French (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the blood is the life : and other stories (White Wolf Publishing, 1997), by F. Marion Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galeria funebre de historias trágicas espectros y sombras ensangrentadas. (Palacios, 1831), by Agustin Perez Zaragoza Godinez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendious history of the ancient military structures of Great Britain (printed by Howlett and Brimmer, 1825), by T. H. Fielding, T. McLean, and Howlett and Brimmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The thing from the lake (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1921), by Eleanor M. Ingram, Washington Square Press, and J.B. Lippincott Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The legend of Sleepy Hollow, and The spectre bridegroom. From the "Sketch book" (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1875), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The door of the unreal (Putnam, 1920), by Gerald Biss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dramatic works of William Shakespeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed (W. Borradaile, 1825), by William Shakespeare and Nicholas Rowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great short stories of detection, mystery and horror. (V. Gollancz, 1928), by Dorothy L. Sayers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales of mystery, imagination, and humour (H. Vizetelly, 1852), by Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Vizetelly (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melmoth the wanderer: a tale. (A. Constable and Co.; [etc., etc.], 1820), by Charles Robert Maturin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schauer-Novellen (F. Peter, 1843), by Ferdinand Kleophas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house of souls (A.A. Knopf, 1922), by Arthur Machen and Edward Steffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wave; an Egyptian aftermath (E. P. Dutton & company, 1916), by Algernon Blackwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evil guest (Downey & Co., 1895), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Brinsley Le Fanu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strange occurrences (Published for the author, 1877), by Leopold Davis and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little pilgrim. (London, New York, 1888), by Mrs. Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Body-snatcher. (Edinburgh Society, 1908), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (London, 1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson, Spottiswoode & Co, and Green Longmans (page images at HathiTrust)
• The yellow rose of New Orleans : a novel (G.W. Dillingham, 1895), by Nevada McNeill, G.W. Dillingham Company, Congo (Democratic Republic). Ministère des affaires sociales, and Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft (Germany) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scream at midnight (Macabre House, 1963), by Joseph Payne Brennan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• String of pearls (Published by E. Lloyd, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, 1850), by James Malcolm Rymer, Albert Smith, E. Lloyd, G. A. Macfarren, Edward P. Hingston, and Thomas Peckett Prest (page images at HathiTrust)
• A translation of R. L. Stevenson's 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' (880-01 Jubbulpore [India] : Christian Mission Press, [between 1890 and 1900?], 1890), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The secrets of Dr. Taverner (Llewellyn Publications, 1962), by Dion Fortune (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deliver me from Eva (Murray & Gee, 1946), by Paul Dayton Bailey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Italian, Volume 1 (of 3) : or, the confessional of the Black Penitents, by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Italian, Volume 2 (of 3) : or, the confessional of the Black Penitents, by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The nobles are coming, by Arthur Jean Cox, illust. by Bert Lief (Gutenberg ebook)
• The black drama, by Manly Wade Wellman, illust. by Margaret Brundage and Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The hairy ones shall dance, by Manly Wade Wellman, illust. by Margaret Brundage and Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fearful Rock, by Manly Wade Wellman, illust. by H. S. De Lay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The man who was pale, by Jack Sharkey, illust. by Leo Summers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Benighted, by J. B. Priestley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The life-masters, by Edmond Hamilton, illust. by Hugh Rankin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The hounds of Tindalos, by Frank Belknap Long, illust. by C. C. Senf (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chalk face, by Waldo David Frank (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sea curse, by Robert E. Howard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Listen, children ... listen!, by Wallace West (Gutenberg ebook)
• A voice from the inner world, by A. Hyatt Verrill, illust. by Frank R. Paul (Gutenberg ebook)
• The skeleton crew : or, Wildfire Ned (Gutenberg ebook)
• At the mountains of madness, by H. P. Lovecraft, illust. by Howard V. Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Conjure wife, by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Frank Kramer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The marrying monster, by Claus Stamm (Gutenberg ebook)
• Drakula: angol regény (in Hungarian), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The night wire, by H. F. Arnold (Gutenberg ebook)
• The blood of the vampire, by Florence Marryat (Gutenberg ebook)
• Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Macabre, by Hugh Walpole (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dangerous Scarecrow, by Carl Jacobi (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Most Horrible Story, by John Jakes, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Joss: A Reversion, by Richard Marsh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kauhujen talo (in Finnish), by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Flowering Evil, by Margaret St. Clair (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pillar of Fire, by Ray Bradbury, illust. by Donel (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les châteaux d'Athlin et de Dunbayne (2/2), Histoire arrivée dans les Montagnes d'Écosse. (in French), by Ann Ward Radcliffe, trans. by François Soulés, illust. by Claude Louis Desrais (Gutenberg ebook)
• Asleep in Armageddon, by Ray Bradbury (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les châteaux d'Athlin et de Dunbayne (1/2), Histoire arrivée dans les Montagnes d'Écosse. (in French), by Ann Ward Radcliffe, trans. by François Soulés, illust. by Claude Louis Desrais (Gutenberg ebook)
• El caso extraño del Doctor Jekyll (in Spanish), by Robert Louis Stevenson, trans. by Emilio Augusto Soulère (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ses noveloj el "Rakontoj de mistero kaj imago" (in Esperanto), by Edgar Allan Poe, trans. by Albert Frank Milward (Gutenberg ebook)
• La Puto kaj la Pendolo: Rakonto el la Hispana Inkvizicio (in Esperanto), by Edgar Allan Poe, trans. by Alexander Pride (Gutenberg ebook)
• Don't Think About It, by William W. Stuart (Gutenberg ebook)
• The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance., by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Living Mummy, by Ambrose Pratt, illust. by Louis D. Fancher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4, by Charles Robert Maturin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3, by Charles Robert Maturin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 2, by Charles Robert Maturin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1, by Charles Robert Maturin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lentävä hollantilainen (in Finnish), by Frederick Marryat, trans. by Väinö Nyman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Demonien ruhtinatar: Kertomus (in Finnish), by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol' (Gutenberg ebook)
• Zofloya, ou le Maure, Histoire du XVe siècle (in French), by Charlotte Dacre, trans. by Madame de Viterne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les mystères d'Udolphe (in French), by Ann Ward Radcliffe, trans. by Madame de Chastenay, illust. by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories, by Grant Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ιστορίες αλλόκοτες (in Greek), by Edgar Allan Poe, trans. by N. Spandones (Gutenberg ebook)
• I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 4 (in Italian), by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 3 (in Italian), by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 2 (in Italian), by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 1 (in Italian), by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Doom of the House of Duryea, by Earl Peirce (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Doors of Death, by Arthur B. Waltermire (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Medici Boots, by Pearl Norton Swet (Gutenberg ebook)
• In the Dark, by Dale Clark (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Diary of Philip Westerly, by Paul Compton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tiger Cat, by David H. Keller (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Long Arm, by Franz Nabl, contrib. by Roy Temple House (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Golgotha Dancers, by Manly Wade Wellman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Isle of the Undead, by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (Gutenberg ebook)
• Brown John's Body, by Winston K. Marks (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ring Once for Death, by Robert Arthur, illust. by Ernest Kurt Barth (Gutenberg ebook)
• There is a Reaper ..., by Charles V. De Vet, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Monster, by S. M. Tenneshaw (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Invaders, by Benjamin Ferris, illust. by Vincent Napoli (Gutenberg ebook)
• The White Feather Hex, by Don Peterson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Each Man Kills, by Victoria Glad, illust. by Vincent Napoli (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Damned Thing: 1898, From "In the Midst of Life", by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain, by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (Gutenberg ebook)

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