Occult and Supernatural fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world.
In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of "horror", "fantasy", and elements important to other genres.The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story.
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E. F. Benson
CATERPILLARS
THE SANCTUARY
THE THING IN THE HALL
THE TERROR BY NIGHT
Ambrose Bierce
AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT
Algernon Blackwood
THE WILLOWS
Ulric Daubeny
THE SUMACH
Charles Dickens
THE SIGNAL-MAN
Arthur Conan Doyle
THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX
Lord Dunsany
DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER
William Fryer Harvey
ACROSS THE MOORS
Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE AMBITIOUS GUEST
W.W. Jacobs
THE MONKEY'S PAW
Henry James
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Franz Kafka
IN THE PENAL COLONY
David H. Keller
THE THING IN THE CELLAR
Henry Kuttner
THE GRAVEYARD RATS
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
CARMILLA
H.P. Lovecraft
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
THE CALL OF CTHULHU
POLARIS
THE QUEST OF IRANON
THE RATS IN THE WALLS
A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
THE SECRET CAVE OR JOHN LEES ADVENTURE
THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME
THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH
THE SHUNNED HOUSE
THE SILVER KEY
THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER
THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST
THE STREET
THE TEMPLE
THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN
THE TOMB
THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO
THE TREE
UNDER THE PYRAMIDS
THE VERY OLD FOLK
WHAT THE MOON BRINGS
Arthur Machen
THE GREAT GOD PAN
M. R. James
THE MEZZOTINT
THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL
THE ASH-TREE
NUMBER 13
COUNT MAGNUS
A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS
Vincent O'Sullivan
WHEN I WAS DEAD
Edgar Allan Poe
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
THE TELL—TALE HEART
Margaret Ronan
FINGER! FINGER!
Saki
GABRIEL-ERNEST
THE OPEN WINDOW
