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100 Pliny the Younger- Letter to Sura
900 Anonymous- Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad
1200 Marie de France- Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
1250 Anonymous- Eyrbyggja Saga
1555 Pierre de Ronsard- Hymn to Demons
1605 William Shakespeare- Macbeth
1609 Thomas Middleton- The Witch
1621 Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley- The Witch of Edmonton
1633 John Donne- The Apparition
1634 Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome- The Late Lancashire Witches
1697 Charles Perrault- Bluebeard
1707 Daniel Defoe- The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
1743 Robert Blair- The Grave
1764 Horace Walpole- The Castle of Otranto
1766 Pu Songling- Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
1772 Jacques Cazotte- The Devil in Love
1776 Uneda Akinari- Ugetsu Monogatari
1777 Clara Reeve- The Old English Baron
1785 Marquis de Sade- 120 Days of Sodom
1786 William Beckford- Vathek
1787 Friedrich Schiller- The Ghost-Seer
1790 Robert Burns- Tam O'Shanter
1794 Ann Radcliffe- The Mysteries of Udolpho
1796 Matthew Gregory Lewis- The Monk
1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1798 Charles Brockden Brown- Wieland
1801 Robert Southey- Thalaba the Destroyer
1808 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Faust
1810 Percy Bysshe Shelley- The Spectral Horseman
1811 Heinrich von Kleist- The Beggar of Locarno
1816 E.T.A. Hoffman- The Sandman
1818 Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
1819 John Polidori- The Vampyre
1820 Johann Ludwig Tieck- Wake Not the Dead
1820 Charles Maturin- Melmoth the Wanderer
1820 Washington Irving- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1821 Charles Nodier- Smarra
1825 Tsuruya Nanboku IV- Yotsuya Kaidan
1829 Sir Walter Scott- The Tapestried Chamber
1830 James Hogg- The Mysterious Bride
1832 Honore de Balzac- The Mysterious Mansion
1833 Alexander Pushkin- The Queen of Spades
1835 Nikolai Gogol- Viy
1835 Nathaniel Hawthorne- Young Goodman Brown
1836 Theophile Gautier- The Dead Leman
1837 Prosper Mérimée- The Venus of Ille
1842 Mikhael Lermontov- The Demon
1846 Edgar Allan Poe- The Cask of Amontillado
1849 Thomas De Quincey- The English Mail-Coach
1849 Alexander Dumas, pere- One Thousand and One Ghosts
1852 Elizabeth Gaskell- The Old Nurse's Story
1852 Wilkie Collins- A Terribly Strange Bed
1855 Robert Browning- Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
1857 Charles Baudelaire- Skeletons Digging
1859 George Eliot- The Lifted Veil
1859 Edward Bulwer-Lytton- The House and the Brain
1859 Fitz James O'Brien- What Was It?
1862 Christina Rossetti- Goblin Market
1866 Charles Dickens- The Signal Man
1869 Lewis Carroll- Phantasmagoria
1872 Sheridan Le Fanu- Green Tea
1874 Paul Feval, pere- Vampire City
1876 Erckmann-Chatrian- The Man-Wolf
1881 Pedro Antonio de Alarcon- The Tall Woman
1885 Robert Louis Stevenson- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1887 De Maupassant- The Horla
1887 Anton Chekhov- A Bad Business
1888 Rudyard Kipling- The Phantom Rickshaw
1890 Arthur Machen- The Great God Pan
1890 Oscar Wilde- The Picture of Dorian Gray
1892 Arthur Conan Doyle- Lot 249
1892 Charlotte Perkins Gilman- The Yellow Wallpaper
1893 Ambrose Bierce- The Death of Halpin Frayser
1895 Robert W. Chambers- The King in Yellow
1896 A.E. Housman- The True Lover
1896 H.G. Wells- The Island of Dr. Moreau
1897 Bram Stoker- Dracula
1898 Henry James- The Turn of the Screw
1900 John Buchan- The Watcher by the Threshold
1902 W.W. Jacobs- The Monkey's Paw
1903 Mark Twain- A Ghost Story
1904 M.R. James- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
1904 Lafcadio Hearn- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
1907 Algernon Blackwood- The Willows
1907 Horacio Quiroga- The Feather Pillow
1908 William Hope Hodgson- The House on the Borderland
1908 Perceval Landon- Thurnley Abbey
1909 Gaston Leroux- The Phantom of the Opera
1910 Edith Wharton- Afterward
1911 Oliver Onions- The Beckoning Fair One
1914 Gustav Meyrink- The Golem
1914 S. Ansky- The Dybbuk
1914 Saki- The Open Window
1918 Ryunosuke Akutagawa- Hell Screen
1923 Maurice Level- Those Who Return
1923 Walter De La Mare- Seaton's Aunt
1926 H.P. Lovecraft- The Call of Cthulhu
1930 William Faulkner- A Rose For Emily
1934 Robert E. Howard- Pigeons From Hell
1934 Isak Dinesen- Monkey
1943 Fritz Leiber- Conjure Wife
1943 Jean Ray- Malpertuis
1946 Ray Bradbury- The Small Assassin
1951 Julio Cortazar- House Taken Over
1954 Richard Matheson- I am Legend
1959 Shirley Jackson- The Haunting of Hill House
1967 Ira Levin- Rosemary's Baby
1971 William Peter Blatty- The Exorcist
1973 Anne Rice- Interview with a Vampire
1977 Stephen King- The Shining
1979 Peter Straub- Ghost Story
1984 Clive Barker- Books of Blood vol. 1
1988 Thomas Harris- The Silence of the Lambs
1991 Ramsey Campbell- Alone with the Horrors
1992 Bret Easton Ellis- American Psycho
1996 Thomas Ligotti- The Nightmare Factory
2000 Mark Z. Danielewski- House of Leaves
2006 Max Brooks- World War Z
2009 Seth Grahame-Smith- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies