The Essential Short Story Collections of Weird and Horror Fiction

1.
Teatro Grottesco
Teatro Grottesco 4.10 avg rating β€” 5,662 ratings
2.
Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood, #1-3)
Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood, #1-3) 4.19 avg rating β€” 29,450 ratings
3.
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories 3.96 avg rating β€” 3,420 ratings
4.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 4.06 avg rating β€” 5,588 ratings
5.
The King in Yellow
The King in Yellow 3.54 avg rating β€” 26,421 ratings
5.
The Lottery and Other Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating β€” 82,489 ratings
7.
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Songs of a Dead Dreamer 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,541 ratings
8.
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies 4.06 avg rating β€” 3,692 ratings
9.
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 4.16 avg rating β€” 1,688 ratings
10.
The Three Impostors
The Three Impostors 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,388 ratings
11.
Night Shift
Night Shift 4.04 avg rating β€” 194,123 ratings
12.
Occultation and Other Stories
Occultation and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating β€” 3,944 ratings
13.
The Secret of Ventriloquism
The Secret of Ventriloquism 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,225 ratings
14.
In a Glass Darkly
In a Glass Darkly 3.84 avg rating β€” 5,817 ratings
15.
The House of Souls
The House of Souls 3.85 avg rating β€” 541 ratings
16.
The Room in the Tower
The Room in the Tower 3.76 avg rating β€” 830 ratings
17.
The Listener and Other Stories
The Listener and Other Stories 3.80 avg rating β€” 132 ratings
18.
Widdershins
Widdershins 3.62 avg rating β€” 329 ratings
19.
Dark Companions
Dark Companions 3.96 avg rating β€” 451 ratings
20.
Tales of Hoffmann
Tales of Hoffmann 4.02 avg rating β€” 2,285 ratings
21.
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories 3.76 avg rating β€” 215 ratings
22.
Can Such Things Be?
Can Such Things Be? 3.68 avg rating β€” 1,132 ratings
23.
The Dark Domain
The Dark Domain really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 881 ratings
24.
The Travelling Grave and Other Stories
The Travelling Grave and Other Stories 3.56 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
25.
Strange Wine
Strange Wine 4.13 avg rating β€” 2,268 ratings
26.
The Outsider And Others
The Outsider And Others 4.43 avg rating β€” 61 ratings
27.
Dark Gods
Dark Gods 4.08 avg rating β€” 2,103 ratings
28.
The Inhuman Condition (Books of Blood #4)
The Inhuman Condition (Books of Blood #4) 3.95 avg rating β€” 8,669 ratings
29.
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
A Rendezvous in Averoigne 4.16 avg rating β€” 899 ratings
30.
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Tales of Mystery & Imagination 4.09 avg rating β€” 10,388 ratings
31.
In the Flesh (Books of Blood, #5)
In the Flesh (Books of Blood, #5) 4.02 avg rating β€” 8,401 ratings
32.
The Weird: A Compendium of Dark and Strange Fictions
The Weird: A Compendium of Dark and Strange Fictions 4.28 avg rating β€” 2,480 ratings
33.
Dark Carnival
Dark Carnival 4.15 avg rating β€” 909 ratings
34.
Randalls Round
Randalls Round 3.89 avg rating β€” 287 ratings
35.
Sleep No More: Railway, Canal and Other stories of the Supernatural
Sleep No More: Railway, Canal and Other stories of the Supernatural 4.05 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
36.
Lost Worlds (Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series)
Lost Worlds (Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series) 4.33 avg rating β€” 112 ratings
37.
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker 3.93 avg rating β€” 221 ratings
38.
Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories
Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,961 ratings
39.
Come Along With Me
Come Along With Me 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,495 ratings
40.
The Dark Country
The Dark Country 3.52 avg rating β€” 776 ratings
41.
By Bizarre Hands
By Bizarre Hands 4.22 avg rating β€” 738 ratings
42.
Waking Nightmares
Waking Nightmares 3.89 avg rating β€” 170 ratings
43.
Seeing Red
Seeing Red 3.87 avg rating β€” 139 ratings
44.
Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories
Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories 4.53 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
45.
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,917 ratings
46.
The Throne of Bones
The Throne of Bones 3.99 avg rating β€” 783 ratings
47.
The Imago Sequence
The Imago Sequence really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4,689 ratings
48.
Windeye: Stories
Windeye: Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 903 ratings
49.
Blood and Water and Other Tales
Blood and Water and Other Tales 3.61 avg rating β€” 345 ratings
50.
Secret Hours
Secret Hours 3.87 avg rating β€” 90 ratings
51.
Spells
Spells 3.74 avg rating β€” 149 ratings
52.
Lesser Demons
Lesser Demons 3.90 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
53.
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell 4.06 avg rating β€” 4,009 ratings
54.
Ringstones and Other Curious Tales
Ringstones and Other Curious Tales
by: Sarban
4.26 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
55.
The White Hands and Other Weird Tales
The White Hands and Other Weird Tales 4.14 avg rating β€” 364 ratings
56.
A Nest of Nightmares
A Nest of Nightmares 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,299 ratings
57.
Furnace
Furnace 3.88 avg rating β€” 483 ratings
58.
Night's Black Agents
Night's Black Agents 4.12 avg rating β€” 251 ratings
59.
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror 3.53 avg rating β€” 3,299 ratings
60.
12 Stories of Suspense And the Supernatural
12 Stories of Suspense And the Supernatural 3.74 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
61.
The Early Fears
The Early Fears 4.48 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
62.
Worse Things Waiting
Worse Things Waiting 4.15 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
63.
My Own Private Spectres
My Own Private Spectres
by: Jean Ray
4.41 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
64.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place 4.25 avg rating β€” 845 ratings
65.
The Ice Monkey and Other Stories
The Ice Monkey and Other Stories 3.95 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
66.
Strange Medicine
Strange Medicine 4.05 avg rating β€” 95 ratings
66.
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream 3.70 avg rating β€” 12,076 ratings
66.
In Search Of and Others
In Search Of and Others 4.19 avg rating β€” 74 ratings
66.
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances 3.53 avg rating β€” 3,021 ratings
66.
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances 3.53 avg rating β€” 3,021 ratings
66.
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed 3.80 avg rating β€” 56,794 ratings
72.
Polyphemus
Polyphemus 4.07 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
72.
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,162 ratings
72.
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes 3.18 avg rating β€” 17,985 ratings
72.
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories 3.82 avg rating β€” 102,309 ratings
76.
Cursed Bunny
Cursed Bunny 3.76 avg rating β€” 37,406 ratings
77.
The Orchard
The Orchard 3.50 avg rating β€” 240 ratings
77.
Across the Border: More Tales of Corporate Horror
Across the Border: More Tales of Corporate Horror 4.77 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
79.
The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories
The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories 4.12 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
80.
Sandkings
Sandkings 4.22 avg rating β€” 6,172 ratings
81.
The Doll's Alphabet
The Doll's Alphabet 3.88 avg rating β€” 1,950 ratings
82.
An Awkward Age
An Awkward Age 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,227 ratings
83.
Lies & Ugliness
Lies & Ugliness 4.15 avg rating β€” 66 ratings
84.
Ghosts and Grisly Things
Ghosts and Grisly Things 3.71 avg rating β€” 262 ratings
85.
Ghost Music and Other Tales
Ghost Music and Other Tales 3.92 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
86.
Conference with the Dead
Conference with the Dead 4.23 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
87.
Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear 3.64 avg rating β€” 8,651 ratings
88.
American Morons
American Morons 3.88 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
89.
Omens
Omens 4.29 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
90.
Burnt Black Suns
Burnt Black Suns 3.79 avg rating β€” 614 ratings
90.
The Bleeding Horse, and Other Ghost Stories
The Bleeding Horse, and Other Ghost Stories 4.03 avg rating β€” 66 ratings
92.
Worse Than Myself
Worse Than Myself 3.79 avg rating β€” 178 ratings
93.
Dramas from the Depths
Dramas from the Depths 4.81 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
94.
A Pretty Mouth
A Pretty Mouth 3.96 avg rating β€” 325 ratings
95.
Unseaming
Unseaming 3.69 avg rating β€” 479 ratings
96.
Hasty for the Dark
Hasty for the Dark 3.94 avg rating β€” 789 ratings
97.
Divinations of the Deep
Divinations of the Deep 4.20 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
98.
All God's Angels, Beware!
All God's Angels, Beware! 4.46 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
98.
Tales From the Nightside
Tales From the Nightside 3.84 avg rating β€” 243 ratings
100.
Houses Without Doors
Houses Without Doors 3.70 avg rating β€” 2,403 ratings