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RE: Modern Zorker's Guide to Getting Started Reading Horror, Part I: Classic Horror
I've not read the following:
- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
- Day and Night Stories by Algernon Blackwood
- The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Gordon Lewis
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Of these, I'm most intrigued by The Monk.
I don't think you'll be disappointed. The Monk is spectacularly vile, especially for its day and age. Otranto is much slower, but it's fascinating to see how it and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin pretty much laid the foundation for what became the Gothic novels of the 20th century. :)