Dana, Castle is ok bedtime reading, but Hill House is NOT.
Very much this.
Anything else that has to be on this classic horror list? Does The Thirteenth Tale belong?
Dracula
(Bram Stoker)
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
(Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(Washington Irving)
The Phantom of the Opera
(Gaston Leroux)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Oscar Wilde)
The Mysteries of Udolpho
(Ann Radcliffe)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Turn of the Screw
(Henry James)
Uncle Silas
(Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
Short Stories
“The Body-Snatcher” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The Mark of the Beast” (Rudyard Kipling)
The Stories of Ambrose Bierce (esp. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”)
The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (esp. “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”)
The Stories of Théophile Gautier (“The Mummy's Foot,” “La Morte Amoureuse”)
“The Withered Arm” (Thomas Hardy)
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
The Haunting of Hill House
(Shirley Jackson)
The Return
(Walter De la Mare)
Salem's Lot
(Stephen King)
The Shining
(Stephen King)
The Thirteenth Tale
(Diane Setterfield)