30 Examples of Horror Tales

Horror stories

The horror stories They are usually short stories, whose main objective is to cause suspense, anguish, uneasiness, restlessness, fear and expectation in the readers. For example: The feather pillowby Horacio Quiroga; The Tell-Tale Heartby Edgar Allan Poe, The cheerful cornerby Henry James.

The characters that star in these stories are usually people with sinister sides (murderers, psychopaths) or supernatural beings (monsters, witches, ghosts, vampires).

The plot of horror stories usually focuses on robberies, murders, hidden messages, abuse, situations of revenge or justice, death, madness.

Characteristics of horror stories

Examples of horror stories

1. The Tell-Tale Heartby Edgar Allan Poe.
2. The spectreby Horacio Quiroga.
3. The cheerful cornerby Henry James.
4. Graveyard ratsby Henry Kuttner.
5. A rose for Emilyby William Faulkner.
6. Luvinaby Juan Rulfo.
7. The cheerful cornerby Henry James.
8. The experiment of Doctor Heidegger, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
9. The color that fell from the skyby Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
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10. Willowsby Algernon Blackwood.
11. Monkey pawby William Wymark Jacobs.
12. The enemyby Anton Chekhov.
13. The lost heartby Emilia Pardo Bazán.
14. Story of a dead man told by himselfby Alejandro Dumas.
15. The mount of the soulsby Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
16. A strange event in the life of Schalken the painterby Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
17. The judge's houseby Bram Stoker.
18. The horlaby Guy de Maupassant.
19. Green Teaby Sheridan Le Fanu.
20. The rural doctorby Franz Kafka.
21. The sistersby James Joyce.
22. The pipe smokerby Martin Armstrong.
23. The mockedby Jack London.
24. The signalmanby Charles Dickens.
25. The devil in the bottleby Robert Louis Stevenson.
26. Cabinetby Thomas Mann.
27. The bricked up windowby Ambrose Bierce.
28. The Wendigoby Algernon Blackwood.
29. Whistle and I'll comeby Montague Rhodes James.
30. The great god Panby Arthur Machen.

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