📚 Horror

Fiction engineered to frighten: monsters and worse, and the traditions that keep writing them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject horror tales in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Fall of the House of Usher	Edgar Allan Poe	1704	237
	The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories	Algernon Blackwood	1906	138
	The Masque of the Red Death	Edgar Allan Poe	1922	85
	Four Past Midnight	Stephen King	1990	65
	The Tommyknockers	Stephen King	1985	58
	Phantoms	Dean Koontz	1983	46
	The Stepford Wives	Ira Levin	1972	41
	Whispers	Dean Koontz	1960	40
	The Thief of Always	Clive Barker	1992	23
	Floating dragon	Peter Straub	1982	18
	Cabal	Clive Barker	1988	16
	The New Girl	Robert Lawrence Stine	1989	16
	Prime Evil	Douglas. Winter	1988	15
	Fear Street - Secret Admirer	Robert Lawrence Stine	1996	15
	House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski	1998	14
	The Dark Descent	David G. Hartwell	1987	12
	Remember Me	Christopher Pike	1989	12
	50 great horror stories	John Canning	1969	11
	Works (Buried Talents / Dance of the Dead / Dress of White Silk / From Shadowed Places / I Am Legend / Mad House / Person to Person / Prey / The Funeral / The Near Departed / Witch	Richard Matheson	1970	9
	The Invitation (Point)	Diane Hoh	1991	9
	Dagon, and other macabre tales	H.P. Lovecraft	1965	8
	The ceremonies	T. E. D. Klein	1984	8
	The dream-quest of unknown Kadath	H.P. Lovecraft	1955	7
	Slumber Party	Christopher Pike	1985	6
	Dark Visions	Douglas E. Winter	1989	6
	The Fever	Diane Hoh	1992	6
	Fear Street Saga - Daughters of Silence	Wendy Haley	1997	5
	Darkness	Ellen Datlow	2010	3
	The Window	Carol Ellis	1992	2
	Fear Street Seniors - The Thirst	Golden Books	1998	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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