Horror Titles for the Halloween Season

Frankenstein was an instant bestseller on publication in 1818 and has long been regarded as a masterpiece of suspense, a classic of nineteenth-century Romanticism and Gothic horror, and the prototype of the science fiction novel.

The Bantam Classics edition of Frankenstein reflects the 1831 version of the text.

The most famous horror story in world literature—the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster—is also a profoundly moving masterpiece.

Features a New Introduction by Jeanette Winterson.

A queer woman must fight her way out of a craft store run by a megachurch in this gripping survival horror novel by Jenny Kiefer, author of This Wretched Valley.

A gothic science fiction classic about a mad scientist on a remote island with the power to create and destroy human beings.

Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan.

This collection brings together the best poems inspired by the undead, from Goethe and Byron to Emily Dickinson and Ishmael Reed.

A nest of vampires literal and metaphorical, this poetry collection ranges across centuries and languages to bring readers a bevy of dark delights.

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.

This selection of ghost stories, by Michael Newton, brings together the best of the genre.

For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures.