Best Free Horror Books of 2026
Here are the 25 most popular free Horror ebooks on Free-eBooks.net for 2026, ranked by reader rating and download volume — every title is free to download.
Last updated: August 5, 2014
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Kept
Zoe Winters | Horror-Gothic
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Download this FREE e-book that focuses on Greta, a werecat whose tribe plans to sacrifice her during the next full moon. Her only hope for survival is Dayne--a sorcerer who once massacred most of the tribe.
12 Days in Hell
Patrick A. Walston | Horror-Gothic
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It's been days since the plague hit America. Most of the population has turned into mindless creatures that hunger for human flesh and blood. Danny Hefner and a handful of others might live through this hellish nightmare, but to be truthful they would be better off dead. Danny watched and read plenty of Zombie fiction in his lifetime, but nothing...
A House of Haunted People
Alan Combes | Horror-Gothic
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The title story, itself a novella about a strange house in my village, leads into a collection of modern ghost stories in unusual, often cosmopolitan settings. 'Mia' is about putting down a much-loved dog. 'Going to the match' is about a supernatural presence amid the crowd. 'The make of sticks' concerns a mysterious character who is mistaken for...
On the Verge of Madness
George Wilhite | Horror-Gothic
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My name is Arthur Chaldeon, and the narrative that I offer is the journal of my nephew, Victor. His own disappearance occurred nearly three years after that of his wife. She was presumed dead, but was never found; and that event set into motion, the bizarre series of circumstances that are recounted in his journal. I will let the story be told...
Horrical
David Byron | Horror-Gothic
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Download this FREE e-book for a collection of older style classic horror tales written in Poe/Lovecraft style. Download it now!
The Wedding Feast
Jonathan Pidduck | Horror-Gothic
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Philip awakes - naked and chained - in the pitch-black living-quarters of a family of murderous inbreeds. His only hope of escape lies with their hideously deformed daughter. But will the price she demands for his release be too high for both of them? Black comedy by Jonathan Pidduck. The sequel, "TETHERED", is due to be published here in...
The Alternative
Richard Dante | Horror-Gothic
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In the not too distant future, the world is threatened by drought and starvation. Washington’s elite are invited to a mysterious gala at a giant old movie house. There, they become part of the entertainment, and meet the Primagnon, a more-than-human being, who offers... The Alternative. Download it today!
Jaded
Renath Van Estefan | Horror-Gothic
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The world isn't the same anymore as Vampires come out of hiding, planning to overthrow the humans and eradicate their kind. But a certain secret organization that has kept vampires in the dark, hidden from humans for many years, has one thing on their side that the rebellious vampires don't. They have Dracula himself and he isn't amused.
See Jack Die (PART 1)
Nicholas Black | Horror-Gothic
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See Jack Die (Part 1 of 5) Jack Pagan might as well be 4½ months old. He awoke in a hospital after suffering a head injury that left him dead for over 67 minutes. All of his long term memories were destroyed. Now he has to start his life again. But his accidental flirts with death left him a special gift. In those few minutes as he fades off...
See Jack Die (PART 3)
Nicholas Black | Horror-Gothic
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See Jack Die (Part 3 of 5) Jack Pagan might as well be 4½ months old. He awoke in a hospital after suffering a head injury that left him dead for over 67 minutes. All of his long-term memories were destroyed. Now he has to start his life again. But his accidental flirts with death left him a special gift. In those few minutes as he fades off...
The Haunting of Reindeer Manor
Kevin Guest | Horror-Gothic
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See the video trailer on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznv-3hNQUc PART 1 OF: THE HAUNTED HOUSES OF ANDERSON The Haunting of Reindeer Manor: Dr. Jonathan Anderson, chair of the psychology department of Dallas's most prestigious university, received a rejection letter for his life's work. The next day, October 31, 2008, he got...
See Jack Die (PART 5)
Nicholas Black | Horror-Gothic
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See Jack Die (Part 5 of 5) Jack Pagan might as well be 4½ months old. He awoke in a hospital after suffering a head injury that left him dead for over 67 minutes. All of his long-term memories were destroyed. Now he has to start his life again. But his accidental flirts with death left him a special gift. In those few minutes as he fades off...
A Love in Darkness
Dean Henryson | Horror-Gothic
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He can bend people's minds to face the truth, and yet he barely seems to notice or care about Sharon. She wants Laif to be more interested. But he's more focused on saving an eight-year-old girl, Cindy, on Sharon's caseload of foster children. This girl is destined to save millions of people if her soul is not corrupted. But he can't use his...
See Jack Die (PART 2)
Nicholas Black | Horror-Gothic
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See Jack Die (Part 2 of 5) Jack Pagan might as well be 4½ months old. He awoke in a hospital after suffering a head injury that left him dead for over 67 minutes. All of his long term memories were destroyed. Now he has to start his life again. But his accidental flirts with death left him a special gift. In those few minutes as he fades off...
The Dark Key
Graeme Winton | Horror-Gothic
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A librarian witnesses a supernatural event close by his hometown. The result of which sends him looking for answers to the vision. The answers, however, come looking for him in the form of ghosts of renegade monks who strayed from their faith, and the thugs of a demon-worshipping order. He finds out through Jonas, a spectre of one of his ancient...
See Jack Die (PART 4)
Nicholas Black | Horror-Gothic
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See Jack Die (Part 4 of 5) Jack Pagan might as well be 4½ months old. He awoke in a hospital after suffering a head injury that left him dead for over 67 minutes. All of his long-term memories were destroyed. Now he has to start his life again. But his accidental flirts with death left him a special gift. In those few minutes as he fades off...
Under a Violet Sky
Graeme Winton | Horror-Gothic
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Horror novel about a journalist's battle against CIA conspiracy, demons and alcohol. Johnny Duncan is given visions which are a warning to the world to stop particle accelerator tests which will open a portal to another dimension where Samael the King of the Demons is held. He teams up with Veronica Cahill another journalist, but they are...
Tethered
Jonathan Pidduck | Horror-Gothic
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BOOK 2 of the "WEDDING FEAST" TRILOGY Abigail awakes, naked and vulnerable, in pitch darkness. Her wrists and ankles have been manacled to the floor. One by one, her brutal, troll-like captors come to visit her. Time is short; she is to be the feast at their wedding. No-one else can rescue her. But can she save herself before they dismember...
The Zombie Chronicles
Chrissy Peebles | Horror-Gothic
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Warning: Some violence. For mature teens or older. BOOK TRAILER: http://youtu.be/ociUHiL1g70 Val was bitten by a zombie and now she’s scheduled for lethal injection. Breaking all the rules, eighteen year old, Dean Walters snags an experimental serum. But it can’t be tested until Val turns into a zombie: something authorities won’t...
Beneath the Sand
Scott Zavoda | Horror-Gothic
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-This will awaken your worst nightmare.- Horror fans - do not pass up, because this chilling, short story will scare you to death! Have you ever worried that something is hiding beneath the sand? What if something brushed your foot one night on the beach? Would you run? Could you? - Character driven! - Suspenseful -...
Our Miss Engel
Lauren Scharhag | Horror-Gothic
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In 1909, Clara Engel, a young school teacher, gets a job at a Catholic girls' boarding school, only to find that her students are not what they seem.
Darlings of Decay
Chrissy Peebles | Horror-Gothic
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With over 325,000 words and featuring some of Amazon's Best Selling Female Authors of Horror, this is certainly not your typical anthology book! Sit back as your favorite authors of zombie lit take you on a wild, horrifying ride that will leave you breathless. Come and meet the women who love to entertain you with their own unique versions of...
The Ghost Files Box Set
Holly Vane | Horror-Gothic
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Meet Sam & Star West, they are not your average siblings. After surviving a near fatal car accident that claimed the lives of their parents, the two woke in separate hospital beds with the gift (and curse) of communicating with the dead. Devoting their lives in helping trapped spirits move on, they gear of a highway with a tragic past. ...
Tormented
C M Hart | Horror-Gothic
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When 16 year old Brianna Morrison-Clarkson moves to a small town with her mother, she thinks her life is over. When she meets Nathaniel Norwood-Pryor, she thinks differently. But Nathaniel is hiding a secret. A deadly secret. Nathaniel is a vampire. Both with haunted pasts, can these two save each other or will blood lust, secrets and betrayal...
Red Red Blood
Nancy Pawley | Horror-Gothic
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Nancy is an innocent young lady who meets Count Marcus at the Midwinter Charity Ball. His infatuation with her leaves her breathless, but little does she realize that he has ulterior motives where she is concerned.
