Macabre


Dracula
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Graveyard Book
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
The Complete Stories and Poems
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Tender Is the Flesh
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Coraline
The Haunting of Hill House
The Picture of Dorian Gray
I Am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. HollandThe Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeComplete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan PoeThe Raven by Edgar Allan Poeheliophobia by Saba Syed Razvi
Best Horror Poetry
18 books — 13 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Hundred Year Old Horror
129 books — 25 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyWorking Stiff by Judy MelinekAmerica’s Most Gothic by Leanna Renee Hieber
Macabre Non-Fiction
22 books — 5 voters

H.P. Lovecraft
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness. ...more
H.P. Lovecraft, Pickman's Model

Shirley Jackson
You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?
Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

More quotes...
Society for the Spookily Inclined Where we can get together and talk about a variety of spooky books and other topics.
16 members, last active 6 years ago
Join horror author John Brhel as he discusses his new short story collection, "Tales From Valley…more
1 member, last active 10 years ago
What The French Toast - Stories For Your Mind What The French Toast is a story channel on YouTube that I have been writing for the past 2 year…more
1 member, last active 5 years ago
The Midnight Book Club (YA + NA horror) Welcome to the official book club of The Midnight Society. We read one book a month of the YA …more
21 members, last active 10 years ago