Going back to the Dark Ages with all the horror and death they experienced. A list including popular selections along with lesser known works to evoke the Olde Age scares.
created by Krispyy
last updated November, 2025
Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror
S.J. Shank
By These Ten Bones
Clare B. Dunkle
A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
S.T. Gibson
Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)
Ed McDonald
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
Beowulf
Unknown Unknown
The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm
Cornish Horrors: Tales From the Land's End
Joan Passey
The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story
Dan Jones
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)
Alex Pheby
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Thomas Ligotti
Mirabilis
Susann Cokal
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Tamsyn Muir
The Throne of Bones
Brian McNaughton
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
R. Scott Bakker
Vermis, Lost Dungeons and Forbidden Woods (Vermis, #1)
Plastiboo Plastiboo
The Rotting Room: A Historical Horror Novel
Viggy Parr Hampton
The Witch and the Woodcutter
L.S. Walker
The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw
The Burnings
Naomi Kelsey
The Plague Charmer: A gripping story of dark motives, love and survival in times of plague
Karen Maitland
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
Connie Willis
Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks
The Plague Tales (The Plague Tales, #1)
Ann Benson
Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin
Grimoire of the Four Impostors
Coy Hall
The Folly of the World
Jesse Bullington
oh this is so fun - love how comprehensive it is!
Thank you! I definitely did a lot of research to dig all of these up :)
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