Halloween Stories
Please enjoy this collection of great stories, featuring ghosts, ghouls, vampires and other supernatural phenomena. These stories and poems are a fun and entertaining way to get in the mood for Halloween. For more, visit Gothic, Ghost, Horror & Weird Library. You may also enjoy Mystery Stories. Especially for young children, we offer Halloween Stories for Children
The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs
Luella Miller - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad' - M.R. James
The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
Sredni Vashtar - H.H. Munro (SAKI)
The Phantom Coach - Amelia B. Edwards
The Hand and A Ghost - Guy de Maupassant
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
The Cats of Ulthar - H.P. Lovecraft
The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
Carmilla and Madam Crowl's Ghost - Joseph Sheriden Le Fanu
The Judge's House and Dracula's Guest - Bram Stoker
A Gentle Ghost and The Shadows on the Wall - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes - Henry James
The Terrible Old Man - H.P. Lovecraft
The Beast With Five Fingers - W.F. Harvey
The Phantom Rickshaw - Rudyard Kipling
The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe
The Boarded Window and The Death of Halpin Frayser - Ambrose Bierce
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot; The Damned Thing; The Moonlit Road; and One Summer Night - Ambrose Bierce
The Ambitious Guest and Graves and Goblins - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Skeleton Lake, The Woman's Ghost Story, and The Empty House - Algernon Blackwood
What Was It? - Fitz-James O'Brien
The King in Yellow and The Messenger - Robert W. Chambers
The Body Snatcher and Thrawn Janet - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mortal Immortal and The Invisible Girl - Mary Shelley
The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Striding Place - Gertrude Atherton
A Pair of Hands: An Old Maid's Ghost-Story - Arthur Quiller-Couch
Joseph: A Story - Katherine Rickford
Halloween Poems
Song of the Witches (Macbeth) - William Shakespeare
Hallowe'en in a Suburb - H.P. Lovecraft
Phantasmagoria - Lewis Carroll
The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree - Dora Sigerson Shorter
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