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Lovecraft's 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' Reading List

Description: Books discussed in Lovecraft's famous essay, for anyone who wants a reading checklist.

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

62,503 members

818 reviews

3.9

7 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, Bookwomble, NinieB, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Beowulf Poet

29,453 members

363 reviews

3.8

7 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ahef1963, Bookwomble, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

4,354 members

143 reviews

3.1

7 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ahef1963, Bookwomble, NinieB, ambybobamby

4

by William Shakespeare

37,510 members

337 reviews

4.2

6 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, NinieB, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by William Shakespeare

29,945 members

261 reviews

4

6 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, NinieB, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

19,758 members

369 reviews

½ 3.7

6 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, Bookwomble, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

3,321 members

66 reviews

½ 3.3

6 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, Bookwomble, NinieB, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

8

41,647 members

686 reviews

4

5 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Northanger Abbey

25,135 members

464 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, NinieB, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

14,622 members

374 reviews

4

5 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, NinieB, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

13,618 members

83 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ahef1963, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Turn of the Screw

9,480 members

296 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Christopher Marlowe

5,694 members

88 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ahef1963, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Matthew Lewis

5,093 members

104 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, Bookwomble, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions)

by Mary Shelley

2,491 members

29 reviews

4

5 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by William Beckford

1,500 members

48 reviews

3.1

5 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, elenchus, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

17

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (Phoenix 60p paperbacks)

by Robert Browning

166 members

3.8

5 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ahef1963, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre

by W. W. Jacobs

164 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ahef1963, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The House of Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9,686 members

118 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

8,099 members

58 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

21

The Yellow Wallpaper [short story]

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3,942 members

167 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by H. Rider Haggard

3,263 members

75 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

23

by Gustav Meyrink

2,044 members

48 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

24

by George MacDonald

2,043 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

25

Melmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Maturin

1,864 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

26

Tales of Hoffmann

by E. T. A. Hoffmann

1,045 members

8 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Complete Writings with Variant Readings (Oxford Standard Authors Series) {Keynes, ed.}

by William Blake

479 members

4 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ahef1963, ambybobamby

28

The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

by William Hope Hodgson

348 members

14 reviews

3.8

4 Members: Rtrace, Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

29

The Captain of the "Polestar" [short story]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

95 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, NinieB, ambybobamby

30

Merrills English Texts, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,Christabel and Other Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

19 members

4 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ahef1963, ambybobamby

31

The Picture of Dorian Gray

47,445 members

749 reviews

4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6,147 members

44 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

33

3,350 members

32 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

34

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

2,856 members

69 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, Bookwomble

35

The House on the Borderland

by William Hope Hodgson

1,803 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

36

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,607 members

17 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

37

by William Godwin

1,372 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ambybobamby

38

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

1,041 members

44 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

933 members

32 reviews

4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

40

The Jewel of Seven Stars

776 members

30 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

41

by John William Polidori

773 members

34 reviews

3.1

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

42

The Lair of the White Worm

709 members

32 reviews

½ 2.6

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

43

In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

by Ambrose Bierce

660 members

14 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

44

by William Hope Hodgson

637 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

45

by Friedrich de LaMotte Fouqué

522 members

9 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Magus: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy

by Francis Barrett

515 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

47

The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

417 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ambybobamby

48

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

by Sir Walter Scott

376 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

49

Yenne Velt: The Great Works of Jewish Fantasy and Occult

by Joachim Neugroschel

364 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

50

Can Such Things Be?

by Ambrose Bierce

307 members

6 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

51

The Ghost Pirates

by William Hope Hodgson

300 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

52

by Hanns Heinz Ewers

251 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

53

The Phantom Ship

by Frederick Marryat

239 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

54

The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories

by Wilkie Collins

219 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Thousand and One Nights

by Antoine Galland

209 members

4 reviews

4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, ambybobamby

56

The Body Snatcher [short story]

by Robert Louis Stevenson

191 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Lancashire Witches

by William Harrison Ainsworth

184 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

58

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. 1820

109 members

½ 4.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

59

A Thin Ghost and Others

108 members

7 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

60

Ghost Stories and Mysteries

by J. S. LeFanu

106 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

61

by Algernon Blackwood

105 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

62

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

by Hanns Heinz Ewers

79 members

3.9

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

63

69 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

67 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

65

A Warning to the Curious: Ghost Stories

64 members

1 review

4.2

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ambybobamby

66

The Episodes of Vathek

by William Beckford

57 members

3.2

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

67

Jimbo: A Fantasy

by Algernon Blackwood

52 members

3.1

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

68

by Charles Robert Maturin

42 members

½ 4.5

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

69

The Upper Berth [short story]

by F. Marion Crawford

39 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ambybobamby

70

The Spider {novella}

by Hanns Heinz Ewers

38 members

4 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

71

The Invisible Eye: Tales of Terror by Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian

by Erckmann-Chatrian

36 members

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

72

by Francis Brett Young

30 members

1 review

3.2

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ambybobamby

73

The Maker of Moons

by Robert W. Chambers

29 members

4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

74

The Diary of a Madman and Other Tales of Horror (Pan original)

by Guy de Maupassant

29 members

½ 3.5

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

75

Eddas and sagas : Iceland's medieval literature

by Jonas Kristjansson

28 members

4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

76

by Arthur Machen

22 members

3.2

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

77

The Tapestried Chamber and Other Stories

by Sir Walter Scott

21 members

3 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, NinieB, ambybobamby

78

The Castle Spectre

by Matthew Gregory Lewis

21 members

1 review

3.8

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

79

The Adventure of the German Student [short fiction]

by Washington Irving

16 members

1 review

½ 3.6

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby, ManWithAnAgenda

80

Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House [short story]

by Algernon Blackwood

4 members

½ 3.3

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble, ambybobamby

81

The Bride Of Corinth And Other Poems

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4 members

1

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, elenchus, ambybobamby

82

Twice-Told Tales

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

2,033 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

83

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

2,025 members

45 reviews

3.2

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

84

by Honoré de Balzac

1,710 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

85

La-Bas (Down There)

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

1,578 members

33 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

86

by Ann Radcliffe

1,416 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

87

by Lafcadio Hearn

1,208 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

88

1,204 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

89

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

by Gustave Flaubert

1,088 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

90

by George Du Maurier

978 members

16 reviews

3.2

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

91

The Romance of the Forest

by Ann Radcliffe

763 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

92

The Horla [short story]

by Guy de Maupassant

757 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

93

by Richard Marsh

723 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

94

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

by Thomas de Quincey

678 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

95

Carnacki: The Ghost Finder

by William Hope Hodgson

615 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, Bookwomble

96

A Sicilian Romance

by Ann Radcliffe

603 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

97

Tales of Terror and Mystery

by Arthur Conan Doyle

591 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

98

by Sir Walter Scott

482 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

99

Zofloya, or, The Moor

by Charlotte Dacre

474 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

100

The Three Impostors

by Arthur Machen

459 members

6 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, ambybobamby

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