Free Horror, Ghost & Gothic Books Online

Introduction

This is a listing of sites that legally offer free books, for reading and listening (audio), for Horror, Gothic and Ghost works.

All of these sites listed have content that is legal to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below. 

Also, I would appreciate it if you would post comments about any sites that you like or do not like so that information can be added to the site's listing here.  This would help new users to decide which sites to try.

This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums. 

More works (non-categorized) can be found at the sites listed in the comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening on these pages:

• 100+ Places For Free Books Online
• Free Audio Books Online

Most entries at those sites that offer only online listening can be downloaded with the Firefox addon DownloadHelper.

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials for horror, ghost & gothic books.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

There are 12 other book  pages here at Gizmo's covering other various popular book genres and offering links to free online books listed here:  Book Genre Pages

Horror/Ghosts/Gothic (Reading)

2020k (Horror) 313 books available for download in a variety of formats

Arthur's Classic Novels (Horror) (Horror2)(Gothic) Nice collection of classic horror novels available for online viewing

BookYards (Horror) 72 novels available for download in pdf format

DragonBytes Nice collection of horror novels available for online viewing.  Separate section for Vampire novels.

Feedbooks (Horror)(Ghosts) (Gothic) Good collections available for download in a variety of formats

Free eBooks.net (Horror/Gothic) 48 books available in pdf or html

Gutenberg (Horror) (Gothic) Large collection sorted by Author available for download in several formats

HorrorMasters several thousand works separated nicely into categories available for download in pdf

ManyBooks (Horror)(Ghost Stories) (Gothic) 142 horror and 94 ghost novels available for download in a large variety of downloads

MemoWare (Horror) 257 classic horror novels for download in varying formats

MobileRead (Horror) 68 works listed in forum threads for download in varying formats

Munsey's (Horror) 989 books available for download in a large variety of formats

OnlineBooksPage (Horror)(Ghosts) Links to a good amount of novels available for online viewing or download.

Qvadis (Horror) interesting collection of 144 horror novels for download in doc format

Wowio (Horror) 100 classic books for online viewing

Horror/Ghosts/Gothic (Audio)

AudioBooksForFree (Horror-Thriller) offers 209 free audio books for free.  However the free download is only available for bearable quality (8kBps) and segmented MP3 files.  Some of these works are not what I would consider Horror, but many are and the entries in the sub-categories of Ghosts and Vampires all fit in this category.

AudioBooks.net has 4 free audio books under Horror, 2 under Ghosts, and 1 under Gothic. You must register (free) to download.

AudioLiteratureOdyssey is a site maintained by voice actor Nikolle Doolin.  It has the ghost story/psychological thriller Turn of The Screw available for download in very good quality MP3.

AudioBookTreasury (Ghosts & Horror) has Dracula (unabridged) and some Edgar Alaan Poe Stories available for free download in MP3 (or complete work in Zip) or for listening online.

FreeMP3AudioBooks has three works by Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death; The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven available for download in MP3 or as a Zip.

LibriVox has a good number of free audio books available for download in MP3 (64kb/128kb) or ogg vorbis.  All are human read.  This is a very nice collection, including the collected public domain works of H.P. Lovecraft.

Lit2Go has 5 classic works under search keyword term Horror available for download in very good quality MP3.  They are also available for online reading.  These works are Dracula, Frankenstein, Picture of Dorian Gray, Tales of Terror & Mystery and a collection of Poe's works.

PodioBooks has a very interesting collection of 20 free audio books These are available for download in very good quality MP3..  These books will not be found at the other free sites here.