Each year, our social media feeds are filled with news of the latest books in horror, true crime, and paranormal.
So many chilling new books come out each year—and our TBRs are often stacked with delectable spooky books by the latest emerging authors. We truly are in a golden age of horror fiction.
But sometimes we're in the mood for something older—books that have stood the test of time.
These are the classics that are the most disturbing. They’re strange and unnerving in uncanny ways—often calling us back to something old and ancient and unsettling.
Every month, we’re bringing you a selection of free ebooks to read that are perfect for lovers of all things spooky, mysterious, gruesome, strange, and macabre.
Witness on the Roof
As a child, Polly Spencer escaped her cruel stepmother by hiding among London’s rooftops—until she accidentally witnessed a murder.
Years later, she's reinvented as the elegant Lady Warchester, far from the dangers of her past—until a chance encounter with the killer shatters her safety and forces her to confront a deadly secret she thought was buried forever.
The Queen of Spades
Hermann, a disciplined army engineer, has never touched a card—until he hears of a countess who won a fortune with the secret of three mysterious cards.
Consumed by obsession, he worms his way into her world through deception, but when his scheme goes horribly wrong, the price is far greater than he ever imagined.
Based on Pushkin’s chilling 1833 tale that inspired Tchaikovsky’s opera, The Queen of Spades is a haunting classic of greed, madness, and fate.
Inspector French's Greatest Case
A murder at London’s elite diamond house, Duke and Peabody, leaves a body, an empty safe, and a baffling lack of clues. But Inspector Joseph French isn’t easily shaken.
With quiet precision and relentless grit, he follows a twisting trail across Europe—and onto a ship bound for South America—in pursuit of a killer who thinks he’s gotten away clean.
The Silver Key
Randolph Carter longs to return to the dazzling dreamworlds of his youth—but the key is lost, and reality feels like a poor substitute.
In this haunting tale from H. P. Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle, Carter sets out to reclaim the forgotten realms of sleep, blurring the line between dreams and waking life as he searches for a truth that may lie beyond both.
