50 Best Horror Short Stories Of All Time

The best horror short stories of all time are listed here. Throughout this article, we have tried to list the best horror short stories. On the list we have selected the best horror short stories from different stories; you can say some horrendous authors.

Their horror stories can make you feel numb within a short time without any notice. On our list, we listed the 50 best horror short stories of all time.

50 Best Horror Short Stories You Will Ever Read Till Now

On this list, there are stories written by some legendary authors like Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, W.W.Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Vladimir Nabokov, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft,

Nathaniel Hawthorne and many more. All these writers are the masters of horror stories and novels. So, without any further delay, we will move on to the list of the best horror short stories of all time at this moment.

50 Best Horror Short Stories:

1. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

   

2. The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

   

3. The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

   

4. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

   

5. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

   

6. The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

   

7. Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner

   

8. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

   

9. An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Ambrose Bierce

   

10. The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet

    

11. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

    

12. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

    

13. Children of the Corn by Stephen King

    

14. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates

    

15. The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

    

16. The Open Window by Saki

    

17. Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard

    

18. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    

19. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    

20. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    

21. Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier

    

22. The Mist by Stephen King

    

23. The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft

    

24. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

    

25. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

    

26. Royal Jelly by Roald Dahl

    

27. The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence

    

28. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

    

29. Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You by M.R. James

    

30. The Box by Richard Matheson

    

31. A Collapse of Horses by Brian Everson

    

32. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

    

33. The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford

    

34. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

    

35. Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker

    

36. The Vampyre by John Polidori

    

37. The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

    

38. The Autopsy by Michael Shea

    

39. The Doll by Daphne du Maurier

    

40. The Road Virus Heads North by Stephen King

    

41. The Jar by Ray Bradbury

    

42. The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison

    

43. In the Hills, the Cities by Clive Barker

    

44. The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Lieber

    

45. Casting the Runes by M.R. James

    

46. The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be by Gahan Wilson

    

47. In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

    

48. Guts by Chuck Palahniuk

    

49. The Landlady by Roald Dahl

    

50. He’ll Come Knocking at Your Door by Robert McCammon

    

So this is the list of the 50 all-time best horror short stories. These stories can be short in their lengths, but after reading the stories; they will expand in your brain later. the phrases, the conditions, and the things that are used in writing this story are praiseworthy and these are admired throughout the whole world.