The following is a list of stories which Lovecraft describes as horror stories or with horror elements.
Note: this list is incomplete.
Villiers de l'Isle Adam[]
- A Torture by Hope
Ansky[]
- The Dyhbuk
Jane Austen[]
- Northanger Abbey
Honoré de Balzac[]
- Louis Lambert
- Melmoth Reconciled
- Seraphita
- The Wild Ass's Skin
Barbauld[]
- Sir Bertrand
Francis Barrett[]
- The Magus
William Beckford[]
- Episodes of Vathek
- History of the Caliph Vathek
E.F.Benson[]
Ambrose Bierce[]
- The Death of Halpin Frayser
- The Secret Of Macarger's Gulch
- One Summer Night
- The Moonlit Road
- A Diagnosis Of Death
- Moxon's Master
- A Tough Tussle
- One Of Twins
- The Haunted Valley
- A Jug Of Syrup
- Staley Fleming's Hallucination
- A Resumed Identity
- A Baby Tramp
- The Night-Doings At 'Deadman's'
- Beyond The Wall
- A Psychological Shipwreck
- The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot
- John Mortonson's Funeral
- The Realm Of The Unreal
- John Bartine's Watch
- The Damned Thing
- Haita The Shepherd
- An Inhabitant of Carcosa
- The Stranger
- The Spook House
- The Suitable Surroundings
Anonymous and or unknown[]
- Arabian Nights
- Beowulf
- Dr. Faustus