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For those who are enthusiasts of Halloween and horror stories, we have created a varied collection of Halloween horror books in PDF format.

This international celebration also known as All Hallows’ Eve, Halloween, or Allhalloween has its origins more than three thousand years ago. 

At that time, people believed that during this day, spirits walked the earth on their way to the afterlife, accompanied by demons, fairies, and other creatures.

These beliefs and traditions have served as inspiration for many world-renowned writers, who have captured truly terrifying stories in books that have become literary classics.

By selecting the best exponents of horror, we managed to create a complete and select list with more than 10 horror books for Halloween in PDF format, with the idea that you can enjoy this celebration to the fullest.

Featured Short Novels

1) The Metamorphosis

Author: Franz Kafka

One of Kafka’s best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of the salesman Gregory Samsa who wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (ungezures from the German Ungeziefer, literally “monstrous vermin”). 

Samsa, finding himself in this new condition, subsequently decides to fight to adapt to his new way of life.

The novel has become one of the literary classics worldwide, and as such has been widely discussed among literary critics, with different interpretations offered.

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2) A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

It tells the story of a greedy and selfish man named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after being visited by a series of ghosts on Christmas Eve.

The book was written and published during the Victorian era, a time when there was a great nostalgia for old Christmas traditions and new customs such as Christmas trees and greeting cards were beginning to be introduced.

Dickens’ inspirations for writing the novel seem to be many and varied, but the main ones are the sad and humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.

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3) White Nights

Author: Fiódor Dostoiévski

White Nights is a short story originally published in 1848, early in the writer’s career.

Like many of Dostoevsky’s stories, White Nights is told in the first person by an unnamed narrator. The narrator is a young man who lives in St. Petersburg and suffers from loneliness. He meets and falls in love with a young woman, but the love is unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is eventually reunited.

The story is divided into six sections:1. First night 2. Second night 3. Nastenka’s story 4. Third night 5. Fourth night 6. Morning

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Short Novels

1) The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Source: Public Domain

2) A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Source: Public Domain

3) White Nights

Fiódor Dostoiévski

Source: Public Domain

4) The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Public Domain

5) Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Source: Public Domain

6) The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: Public Domain

7) The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Source: Public Domain

8) The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

Source: Public Domain

9) The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

Source: Public Domain

10) Death in Venice

Thomas Mann

Source: Public Domain

11) Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source: Public Domain

12) Cane

Jean Toomer

Source: Public Domain

13) O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

Source: Public Domain

14) Billy Budd

Herman Melville

Source: Public Domain

15) Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

Source: Public Domain

16) Jakob von Gunten

Robert Walser

Source: Public Domain

17) Candide

Voltaire

Source: Public Domain

18) Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Source: Public Domain

19) The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

Source: Public Domain

20) Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Source: Public Domain

21) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source: Public Domain

22) The call of the wild

Jack London

Source: Public Domain

23) The return of the soldier

Rebecca West

Source: Public Domain

24) Agnes grey

Anne Brontë

Source: Public Domain

25) Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Source: Public Domain

26) The Bridge of San Luis

Rey Thornton Wilder

Source: Public Domain

27) Daisy Miller

Henry James

Source: Public Domain

28) Flatland

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Source: Public Domain

29) The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Source: Public Domain

30) Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov

Source: Public Domain

31) The Lifted Veil

George Eliot

Source: Public Domain

32) The Kreutzer Sonata

Leo Tolstoy

Source: Public Domain

33) First Love

Ivan Turgenev

Source: Public Domain

34) Lady Susan

Jane Austen

Source: Public Domain

35) The aspern papers

Henry James

Source: Public Domain

36) Benito Cereno

Herman Melville

Source: Public Domain

37) The girl with the golden eyes

Honoré de Balzac

Source: Public Domain

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