Top 7 best horror stories in Literature

This month our top 7 list is about famous tales in literature that will send chills up and down your spine! Get ready to get goosebumps all over as you read 7 of the most famous short stories ever written in the history of Literature:

1)      The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

The first place in our list goes to the master of horror Edgar Allan Poe! In this story we can see how one person can gradually go from being a nice and caring husband to a murderer! 

2)      The Monkey’s Paw  by W. W. Jacobs

A good story about lucky charms and about how careful we need to be with what we wish for! In this story, a man is given a fetish (a lucky charm) which grants him 3 wishes. Little did he know that his wishes would bring upon him consequences that would make him rue the day he was born. 

3)      The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

This classic has been made into so many movies and cartoons throughout the centuries that I'm pretty sure anyone might have heard about  this story.

4)      The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman

One of my personal favorites! Many may argue that this is not a horror story and that it should not have been included in this list, but I still think that one of the possible readings we can get from this story is under a paranormal stance. A must-read!

5)      The Bottle Imp by Robert Lois Stevenson

6)      The Horla by Guy de Maupassant  (both versions are nice)

This story is about a being that torments a poor soul in France. The story has been written twice, one of the versions is a 1^st account of some paranormal accidents that were written in the format of a diary whereas the second version of the story is a 3^rd person-narrated short story. Both versions are nice as they give you different insights on the story.

7)   Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

   

A classic story I had to read in college and that I will remember for the rest of my life. This one is about a meeting in the woods with the “dark one” and his “followers”. If you are into horror stories, you must read this one!

Some further recommendations:

8)      The tumb by H. P. Lovecraft

9)      The mask of the red death by Edgar Allan Poe ( and all of Poe’s stories lol)

10)   Noite na Taverna (this is not a short story, but it is one of the best horror stories ever written in human kind! Lol )