Horror
- Chilling Short Stories
- Eerie Mysteries and Horrors
- Classic Gothic Horror
- Classic Radio Horror Dramas
Forget What You Can't Remember
Featuring a zombie outbreak and a strange sort of doomsday, but really focusing on how coming through those experiences into utopia and free…
Windsor Castle
Book 2 - Herne the Hunter. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn…
Varney, the Vampyre
Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to va…
Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
William Drake Westervelt was an eminent scholar of Hawaiian culture, language, and history. In this capacity, he collected the ghost stories…
The Haunter of the Dark
The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island, and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom, a mysterious cult using an artifact call…
Varney, the Vampyre
This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…
Ghosts, Ghouls and Spooky Things
This is the twenty-fourth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes…
Dracula
Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire story, but he popularized it with his classic 1897 novel. In form Dracula is an epistolary novel, to…
The Sleeper
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his ta…
The Mystery of a Turkish Bath
A group of guests, at an exclusive luxury hotel in Hampshire, are the witnesses of an illustration of occult powers, demonstrated by “the My…
The Return of the Soul
Can the soul of the dead come back to haunt the one who was responsible for its death? What would happen if the responsible one did not beli…
Zastrozzi, A Romance
“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!”From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defianc…
Carmilla
Laura grew up on a castle in the Austrian mountains with her father, slightly lonely as there are no potential companions around. Her loneli…
Personal Poe Collection
We present here ten stories and poems from the master of horror, Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. They are our personal favorites. We hope you enjoy the…
The Flaw in the Crystal
One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflic…
Nightmare
It all started when his best friend died.
His eyes turned cold and whatever soul he’d had disappeared.
I thought I was going crazy until the…
The History of the Caliph Vathek
This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not …
Melmoth The Wanderer
One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, h…
A Life of Death
A paranormal coming-of-age mystery about one boy's pain and hardship endured in a small Virginia town.
Losing a father and growing up with …
The Return
A story of psychological horror, The Return explores ideas of identity, love, and alienation. Arthur grapples with the reactions of his fami…