Horror
- Chilling Short Stories
- Eerie Mysteries and Horrors
- Classic Gothic Horror
- Classic Radio Horror Dramas
Two Poe Tales
Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a B…
The Ingoldsby Legends
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
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
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…
Windsor Castle
Book 4 - Cardinal Wolsey. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn a…
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…
Red Arrows in the Night
The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold…
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…
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…
The Hag
The Hag is a haunting poem by 17th-century English poet Robert Herrick, capturing the eerie essence of Halloween. In this work, Herrick expl…
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…
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…
On Passing Deadman’s Island
On Passing Deadman’s Island is a haunting poem by Thomas Moore that weaves together themes of nature, myth, and the supernatural. Set agains…
The Beetle
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and…
The Terror
In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a cul…
Ziska
The story revolves around the mysterious Princess Ziska, who captivates a set of European tourists who are spending time in exotic Egypt. Th…
The Octave of Claudius
One night, Dr. Gabriel Lamb saves the life of Claudius Sandell. He takes him home and treats him excellently, nursing him back to health. Ho…
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…
Zombie Nights
"Being a zombie, not so easy". That could have been Dave Connor's six word memoir. "At first he couldn't remember how he'd en…
The Beckoning Fair One
The Beckoning Fair One is a haunting tale that explores the thin veil between reality and the supernatural. Set in a decaying London house, …