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