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:
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens
Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Ambrose Bierce
The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Children of the Corn by Stephen King
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates
The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
The Open Window by Saki
Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
The Mist by Stephen King
The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Royal Jelly by Roald Dahl
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You by M.R. James
The Box by Richard Matheson
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Everson
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
The Vampyre by John Polidori
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
The Autopsy by Michael Shea
The Doll by Daphne du Maurier
The Road Virus Heads North by Stephen King
The Jar by Ray Bradbury
The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison
In the Hills, the Cities by Clive Barker
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Lieber
Casting the Runes by M.R. James
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be by Gahan Wilson
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
Guts by Chuck Palahniuk
The Landlady by Roald Dahl
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.