| 100% | THEGOLDBUG | 10 | Short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843 whose central character is William Legrand |
| 43% | MURDERS | 7 | "The ___ in the Rue Morgue," short story by Edgar Allan Poe which is also considered the first modern detective story |
| 42% | FALL | 4 | "The ___ of the House of Usher," gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe which is about two ailing siblings living in a strange mansion |
| 39% | THEPITANDTHE | 12 | & 1D 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe adapted for the cinema by Richard Matheson in 1961 |
| 36% | ELEONORA | 8 | Autobiographical short story by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 36% | THEPREMATURE | 12 | & 15A 1844 short story by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 36% | THEBOTTLEIMP | 12 | 1891 short story by Robert Louis Stevenson whose Hawaiian central character is Keawe |
| 35% | RUE | 3 | "The Murders in the ___ Morgue," short story by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 32% | RUE | 3 | "The Murders in the ___ Morgue" (short story by Edgar Allan Poe) |
| 30% | OBITS | 5 | Horror short story by Stephen King that was nominated for an Edgar Award in 2016 |
| 30% | INN | 3 | "On Slide ___ Road," short story by Stephen King that was published in Esquire magazine in 2020 |
| 29% | POLE | 4 | "The Captain of the ___-Star," short story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was published in the Temple Bar |
| 29% | USHER | 5 | "The Fall of the House of ___," gothic story by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 27% | BLACK | 5 | "The ___ Cat," gothic story by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of an unreliable narrator |
| 27% | THEDANCEOF | 10 | & 18D Two-part play written in 1900 by August Strindberg whose central characters are husband and wife Edgar and Alice |
| 27% | TELLTALE | 8 | "The ___ Heart," gothic story by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of the narrator's hamartia: Hyph. |
| 27% | THEFALLOFTHE | 12 | & 22A 1839 short story by Edgar Allen Poe |
| 26% | THEREDPONY | 10 | 1937 volume of four stories by John Steinbeck whose central character is Jody Tiflin |
| 26% | SOMETHING | 9 | & 22A Volume of short stories by Katherine Mansfield published posthumously in 1924 |
| 26% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan —, US short story writer who died in 1849 |
| 26% | RAVEN | 5 | "The ___," gothic narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of the titular talking bird |
| 24% | UNCLEVANYA | 10 | Anton Chekhov play published in 1897 whose title character is Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky |
| 24% | UNCLE | 5 | Anton Chekhov play published in 1897 whose title character is Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky |
| 24% | HOLMES | 6 | Sherlock ___, detective whose story was first published in print in "A Study in Scarlet" on 1st December 1887 |
| 24% | THERAVEN | 8 | Work by Edgar Allan Poe |