20 Spooky Classical Stories for Free

Whether you like curling up with a physical book under a heap of blankets or prefer laying in bed basking in the safe glow of your smart phone, here are some classical books and short stories you can curl up in October. For those of you who like to read digitally I'll like to the free copies through Project Gutenberg, otherwise all these classics should be easily obtainable from your library or at book swaps. For those of you who like to listen to ebooks while you craft or clean Project Gutenberg has some in audio format but if they don't your local library normally does.

This is by no means a complete list of classical horror books that you can find, these are just some I've rather enjoyed or that I want to read still. Right now none of my favorite Agatha Christie books qualify as they aren't all public domain yet.

20 Public Domain Horror Books and Stories

1. At The Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft
2. Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
3. Dracula - Bram Stoker
4. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
5. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - William Shakespeare
6. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brone
7. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
8. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
9. The Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft
10. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
11. The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce
12. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance - H. G. Wells
13. The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells
14. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
15. The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
16. The Monkey's Paw - W. W. Jacobs
17. The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
18. The Red Room - H. G. Wells
19. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
20. The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood

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