I have read many Edgar Allen Poe stories before, and the one that especially rings a bell is the "Fall of House Usher" (hopefully I'm thinking of the right one).

For some reason that one story sticks out to me. I didn't necessarily think it was horrifying, but it was more of a chiller. It was about a freaky old house and then sick people being mistaken for dead and then buried... alive. Then the dead person comes back to life and claims her brother. Turns out they were the only ones left of their family, Usher. Thus the fall of house Usher.

I enjoy Edgar Allen Poe, but I think that me, being exposed to horror movies and such, am not quite as scared as some people may have been or may be.