Historical Horror Recommendations?

[danaargot]

Does anyone have any historical horror recommendations? Basically, I'm looking for scary books set in the past. I'm also good with books set in the past with monsters.

[laurie_lu]

"The Keep" by F. Paul Wilson.  Set in 1941 Romania.

[Geemont]

It horror and historical about the lost Franklin expedition of the 1840s to find the Northwest Passage.

[DevonMoroi]

"The Keep" by F. Paul Wilson.  Set in 1941 Romania.

This one looks pretty interesting.

[James Everington]

It horror and historical about the lost Franklin expedition of the 1840s to find the Northwest Passage.

Oh, someone beat me to it!

[Tony Rabig]

I'll second (third?) those recommendations for Dan Simmons' The Terror.  Some of Robert Bloch's work (the ones that aren't available as ebooks, unfortunately) is set in the past -- I'm thinking about American Gothic (involving the Holmes murder castle during the World's Fair in Chicago) and Night of the Ripper (about guess who?).

And for horror set in the past, there's plenty to choose from horror and dark fantasy stories written in the past -- enough to keep one busy for quite a while.  There's more than Frankenstein and Dracula and Poe.  A number of Kipling's stories, M.R. James, Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll..., sure, but there are several short stories too), Ambrose Bierce's work, and more.  No shortage of good stuff at all.

[Barrymore Tebbs]

There is an excellent vampire series by Les Daniels, long out of print and definitely not available in digital format, that are set in various historical eras featuring the vampire Don Sebastian de Villanueva. These were written in the late 70s and so are more "old school" vampires than the stuff we get today. The Black Castle was set during the Spanish Inquisition, The Silver Skull in 16th Century Mexico, Citizen Vampire during the French Revolution, No Blood Spilled set in Calcutta (great if you are a fan of Dan Simmons' Song of Kahli), and Yellow Fog in Victorian England. I see a few on eBay today for between 5 and 10 bucks.

[Barrymore Tebbs]

Here's a good one that is available for Kindle, Robert Arthur Smith's The Prey, also written in the late 1970s. This one is uber Gothic werewolf horror, bloody and action packed and full of historical detail.