Top 7 best horror stories in Literature
Autor: Danilo Neves Pereira | Publicado: 2013-04-12T13:21:00-07:00



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: 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->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!&nbsp;

















<!--[if !supportLists]-->2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->The Monkey’s Paw&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;
















<!--[if !supportLists]-->3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->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 &nbsp;this story.



















<!--[if !supportLists]-->4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->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!



















<!--[if !supportLists]-->5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->The Bottle Imp by Robert Lois
Stevenson



















<!--[if !supportLists]-->6)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->The Horla by Guy de Maupassant &nbsp;(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 1st account of some
paranormal accidents that were written in the format of a diary whereas the
second version of the story is a 3rd person-narrated short story.
Both versions are nice as they give you different insights on the story.











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7)&nbsp; &nbsp;Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne




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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:

<!--[if !supportLists]-->8)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->The tumb by H. P. Lovecraft

<!--[if !supportLists]-->9)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->The mask of the red death by Edgar
Allan Poe ( and all of Poe’s stories lol)

<!--[if !supportLists]-->10)&nbsp;&nbsp; <!--[endif]-->Noite na Taverna (this is not a
short story, but it is one of the best horror stories ever written in human
kind! Lol )