Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

Abdullah, Achmed
That Haunted Thing

Ainsworth, William Harrison
The Spectre Bride

Askew, Alice & Claude
Lady Green-Sleeves

Atherton, Gertrude
The Striding Place
Death and the Woman

Austin, Mary
The Readjustment

“B”
The Stone Coffin

Baldwin, Louisa
How He Left the Hotel
Many Waters Cannot Quench Love

Bangs, John Kendrick
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall

Baring, Maurice
The Shadow of a Midnight
The Island

Baring-Gould, Sabine
Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story
The 9:30 Up-Train

Barr, Robert S.
Share and Share Alike

Benson, A. C.
The Closed Window
The Gray Cat

Benson, E. F.
The House with the Brick-Kiln
Outside the Door
The Terror by Night
Gavon’s Eve
The Bus-Conductor
Caterpillars
Negotium Preambulans

Benson, R. H.
Father Macclesfield’s Tale
The Traveller
The Green Robe

Beresford, J. D.
Force Majeure

Bierce, Ambrose
The Moonlit Road
The Stranger
A Wireless Message
A Tough Tussle
The Damned Thing
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Blackwood, Algernon
The Face of the Earth
The Empty House (1906)
Pan’s Garden (1912)
The Lost Valley (1914)
The Willows (1907)
✓ The Wendigo (1910)
The Insanity of Jones
The Man Who Found Out
✓ Glamour of the Snow
The Damned (1914)
The Empty House (1906)
Keeping His Promise
The Occupant of the Room
The Woman’s Ghost Story
The Kit-Bag
Accessory Before the Fact

Boothby, Guy
A Strange Goldfield
Remorseless Vengeance

Bordon, C. A.
The Ghost Ship

Bowen, Marjorie
Brent’s Folly

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
The Cold Embrace
Eveline’s Visitant
The Face in the Glass

Broster, D. K.
All Soul’s Day

Broughton, Rhoda
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
The Man with the Nose

Brown, Alice
The Empire of Death
The Island

Buchan, John
Fullcircle
At the Article of Death
Basilissa

Bulwer—Lytton, Edward
The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain

Burrage, A. M.
Footprints

Capes, Bernard
An Eddy on the Floor
Dark Dignum
The Queer Picture
The Thing in the Forest
The Marble Hands

Chambers, Robert W.
Passeur
In the Court of the Dragon
The Yellow Sign

Clinghan, Clarice Irene
The Seaweed Room

Closser, Myla Jo
At the Gate

Clutch, Robert M.
The Last Man’s Club

Collins, Wilkie
Mad Monkton

Colquhoun, John
A Penny Walk

Cram, Ralph Adams
In Kropfsberg Keep
The Dead Valley
The White Villa

Crawford, F. Marion
The Doll’s Ghost
The Upper Berth

Croker, B. M.
The Former Passengers
“If You See Her Face”
The First Comer
Mrs. Ponsonby’s Dream

Crowe, Catherine
My Friend’s Story
The Dutch Officer’s Story
The Garde Chasse

Curtis, Alice Turner
“To Let”

Daubeny, Ulrich
The Other Occupant
The Garden That Was Desolate
As It Was Written

Dawson, Emma Frances
A Stray Reveler
A Sworn Statement

de la Mare, Walter
The Giant

de l’Istle Adam, Villiers
The Torture by Hope

de Maupassant, Guy
The Specter
He?
The Englishman
Was It a Dream?
The Horla

Despard, Hero
Aidu

Dickens, Charles
No. I Branch Line—The Signal Man
The Trial for Murder

“D. N. J.”
The Journal of Edward Hargood

Donovan, Dick
The Spectre of Rislip Abbey
The Corpse Light
The Astrologer

Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Captain of the Pole-Star
The Case of Lady Sannox
How It Happened
Lot No. 249
The Horror of the Heights

Dunbar, Olivia Howard
The Shell of Sense
The Long Chamber

Dunsany, Lord
The Ghosts

Edwards, Amelia B.
The North Mail
The Eleventh of March
The New Pass

Erckmann-Chatrain
The Murderer’s Violin
The Owl’s Ear
The Invisible Eye

Everett, H. D.
Fingers of a Hand
The Lonely Road
Over the Wires

Falkner, J. Meade
The Lost Stradivarius

Fletcher, J. S.
The Other Sense

Ford, Ford Maddox
The Medium’s End

Fortune, Dion
The Soul that Would Not Be Born

France, Anatole
The Mass of Shadows

Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
The Wind in the Rose-Bush
A Far-Away Melody
A Gentle Ghost
The Shadow on the Wall

Galbraith, Lettice
The Ghost in the Chair
In the Séance Room

Gaskell, Elizabeth
The Old Nurse’s Story

Gift, Theo
Dog or Demon?

Gilchrist, R. Murray
The Pageant of Ghosts
The Return
Witch In-Grain
The Basilisk

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
The Giant Wistaria

Glasgow, Ellen
The Shadowy Third

Gould, Sabine Baring
On the Leads

Gray, Arthur
The Necromancer

Haggard, H. Rider
Only a Dream

Harvey, William Fryer
Across the Moors
The Clock
August Heat
Midnight House
The Ankardyne Pew

Hawker, R. S.
The Botathen Ghost

Hawthorn, Hildegard
Perdita

Hawthorne, Julian
The Delusion of Ralph Penwyn
Dr. Pechal’s Theory
The Spirit of the Dance

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Hollow of the Three Hills

Hearn, Lafcadio
Mujina
Jikininki

Henry, O.
The Furnished Room

Heron, H.
The Story of the Spaniards
The Story of No. 1

Hichens, Robert S.
How Love Came to Professor Guildea
The Figure in the Mirage
The Desert Drum

Hodgson, William Hope
The Searcher of the End House
A Tropical Horror
The Demons of the Sea
The Derelict
The Voice in the Night

Hooper, Lucy H.
Carnivorine

Hunt, Violet
The Barometer

Irving, Washington
The Adventure of the German Student
Legend of the Engulphed Convent
The Bold Dragon, or, The Adventure of My Grandfather

Jackson, Shirley (American)
The Lottery (1948)
The Sundial (1958)
The Haunting of Hill House

Jacobs, W. W.
The Three Sisters
“The Toll-House”
Jerry Bundler
The Monkey’s Paw

James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
The Ghostly Rental
The Jolly Corner

James, M. R.
An Episode of Cathedral History
The Diary of Mr. Poynter
Lost Hearts
Two Doctors
The Mezzotint
Count Magnus
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”

Jepson, Edgar
Mrs. Morrel’s Last Séance

Jerome, Jerome K.
The Haunted Mill; or, the Ruined Home
The Skeleton

Jewett, Sarah Orne
The Gray Man

Kelley, George W.
The Haunted Cap

Kellett, E. E.
Self-Haunted

Kent, Michael
Reconstruction

Kipling, Rudyard
The Recrudescence of Imray
By Word of Mouth

La Spina, Greye
The Haunted Landscape

Landon, Perceval
Thurnley Abbey

Leacock, Stephen
Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story

Lee, Vernon
Amour Dure
The Image

Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
The Haunted Baronet
The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
The Watcher
Schalken the Painter

Le Gallienne, Richard
The Haunted Orchard

Lemon, Don Mark
The Man Who Did Things Twice

Level, Maurice
The Kennel

Lewis, Eleanor F.
The Vengeance of a Tree

Litt, W. G.
The Armless Man

Lister, Lewis
The Terror by Night

Lovecraft, H.P.
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
H.P. Lovecraft
(Complete List)
The Alchemist
At the Mountains of Madness
Azathoth
The Battle that Ended the Century
The Beast in the Cave
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
The Book
The Call of Cthulhu
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Cats of Ulthar
Celephaïs
The Challenge from Beyond
Collapsing Cosmoses
The Colour out of Space
Cool Air
The Crawling Chaos
The Curse of Yig
Dagon
The Descendant
The Diary of Alonzo Typer
The Disinterment
✓ The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Dreams in the Witch House
✓ The Dunwich Horror
The Electric Executioner
The Evil Clergyman
Ex Oblivione
Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
The Festival
From Beyond
The Green Meadow
The Haunter of the Dark
He
✓ Herbert West—Reanimator
History of the Necronomicon
The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast
The Horror at Martin’s Beach
The Horror at Red Hook
The Horror in the Burying-Ground
The Horror in the Museum
The Hound
Hypnos
Ibid
In the Vault
In the Walls of Eryx
The Last Test
The Little Glass Bottle
The Lurking Fear
The Man of Stone
Medusa’s Coil
Memory
The Moon-Bog
The Mound
The Music of Erich Zann
The Mysterious Ship
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard
The Nameless City
The Night Ocean
Nyarlathotep
Old Bugs
The Other Gods
Out of the Aeons
The Outsider
Pickman’s Model
The Picture in the House
Poetry and the Gods
Polaris
The Quest of Iranon
The Rats in the Walls
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
The Secret Cave or John Lees Adventure
The Shadow out of Time
The Shadow over Innsmouth
Discarded Draft of The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shunned House
The Silver Key
The Slaying of the Monster
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Street
Sweet Ermengarde
The Temple
The Terrible Old Man
The Thing in the Moonlight
The Thing on the Doorstep
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
“Till A’ the Seas”
The Tomb
The Transition of Juan Romero
The Trap
The Tree
The Tree on the Hill
Two Black Bottles
Under the Pyramids
The Unnamable
The Very Old Folk
What the Moon Brings
The Whisperer in Darkness
The White Ship
Winged Death

Machen, Arthur
The Monstrance
✓ The Great God Pan
Novel of the White Powder

Marriott-Watson, H. B.
The Brazen Cross

Marsh, Richard
The Fifteenth Man
A Psychological Experiment

Matheson, Richard
I Am Legend (1954)
A Stir of Echoes (1958)
The Shrinking Man (1956)
Shock I (1961)
Shock II (1964)
Shock III (1966)
Third from the Sun (1950)
The Shores of Space (1957)

Maugham, W. Somerset
Told in the Inn at Algeciras

McDonald, Stella B.
Dalton’s Inspiration

Meik, Vivian
White Zombie

Metcalfe, John
Twilight

Methley, Violet M.
The Damned Spot
“Dusty Death”

Middleton, Richard
The Ghost Ship
On the Brighton Road
The Coffin Merchant
The Conjurer

Moffett, Cleveland
On the Turn of a Coin

Molesworth, Mrs.
At the Dip of the Road
A Strange Messenger
The Story of the Rippling Train
Lady Farquhar’s Old Lady

Morris, Hilda
The Case of the Witch-Woman

Morrow, W. C.
The Haunted Burglar
Over an Absinthe Bottle
His Unconquerable Enemy

Muddock, J. E.
A Ghost from the Sea
The Blood Drips
The White Witch of the River

Mulholland, Rosa
Not to Be Taken at Bedtime
The Lady Tantivy

Nesbit, E.
The House of Silence
No. 17
Man-Size in Marble

Neruda, Jan
The Vampire

Newton, Douglas
And There’s Your Proof

Nisbet, Edith
John Charrington’s Wedding
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached

Nisbet, Hume
The Demon Spell
The Vampire Maid

Nixon, George W.
The Escape

Northcote, Amyas
The Steps
Brickett Bottom
The Downs

O’Brien, Fitz-James
A Terrible Night
Jubal, the Ringer

Onions, Oliver
The Cigarette Case
The Rocker
The Beckoning Fair One

O’Neill, Rose Cecil
The Lady and the Ghost

O’Sullivan, Vincent
The Burned House
The Interval
The Business of Madame Jahn
My Enemy and Myself

Oyen, Henry
The Great Power

Pain, Barry
Rose Rose
The Moon-Slave
The Tower

Pangborn, Georgia Wood
Cara
Broken Glass

Pater, Roger
In Articulo Mortis

Peattie, Elia W.
A Grammatical Ghost
The Spectral Collie
The Shape of Fear
Story of an Obstinate Corpse

Pedrose, Lawrence William
The Man from Honolulu

Pemberton, Clive
The Will of Luke Carlowe
The Spider
A Dead Man’s Bargain

Penn, Mary E.
At Ravenholme Junction
In the Dark
The Strange Story of Our Villa

Perrin, Alice
The Footsteps in the Dust
Old Ayah
Powers of Darkness
Chunia, Ayah

Platt, James
The Witches’ Sabbath

Poe, Edgar Allan
Eleonora
The Masque of the Red Death
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher

Punshon, E. R.
The Avenging Phonograph
The Last Ascent

Quiller-Couch, Arthur
The Roll-Call of the Reef
The Haunted Dragoon
“Doubles” and Quits

Quiroga, Horacio
The Feather Pillow

Ransome, Arthur
Post-Mortem

Rickford, Katherine
Joseph: A Story

Riddell, Mrs. J. H.
A Terrible Vengeance
The Last Squire of Ennismore

Robins, G. M.
The Man with No Face
A Twilight Experience

Robinson, Phil
The Man-Eating Tree

Saki
The Open Window
The Soul of Laploshka
Sredni Vashtar
The Music on the Hill

Scrysmour, Ellen
The Werewolf of Rannoch
The Room of Fear

Settles, Claude N.
The Third Doctor

Sewell, Chris
The Dream Giver

Sheehan, Perley Poore
Monsieur de Guise

Shiel, M. P.
Xelucha
The Bell of St. Sepulcre

Sholl, Anna McClure
The Bride

Sinclair, May
The Villa Desiree

Smith, Clark Ashton
Ghost of Mohammed Din

Spence, Lewis
The Archer in the Arras

Spofford, Harriet Prescott
The Conquering Will

Stern, Gladys
The Tragedy at the “Loup Noir”

Stevenson, Robert Louis
Thrawn Janet
The Body-Snatcher

Stockton, Frank R.
The Transferred Ghost

Stoker, Bram
Dracula (1897)
Dracula’s Guest (1914)
The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
The Burial of the Rats (1896)
The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
The Jewel of the Seven Stars
The Lair of the White Worm
The Squaw
The Judge’s House

Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Tom Toothacre’s Ghost Story

Strickland, Margaret
The Case of Sir Alister Moeran

Swain, E. G.
Bone to His Bone
The Kirk Spook
The Man with the Roller
The Rockery

Verne, Jules
Dr. Trifulgas

Vorse, Mary Heaton
The Halfway House
The Other Room

Watson, H. B. Marriott
The Devil of the Marsh

Wells, H. G.
The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost
The Strange Orchid
The Presense by the Fire

Wharton, Edith
Kerfol
The Eyes
Afterward

White, Edward Lucas
The House of the Nightmare
Amina

White, Ethel Lina
“With What Measure Ye Mete…”

Whitehead, Henry S.
The Door
No Eye-Whitnesses
Jumbee
Passing of a God
Cassius

Wintle, William L.
The Spectre Spiders
The Voice in the Night
The Black Cat

Wood, Mrs. Henry
A Curious Experience

Wormser, G. Ranger
The Effigy

I’ll have to break out my laptop again in the next few days to thoroughly review this list and make appropriate suggestions in various planning threads. I’m excited to see horror separated from sci-fi & fantasy.

I am as well!