Can anybody recommend a horror/weird/scifi book or a short story taking place during the Great War? I know Abraham Merritt wrote "Three Lines of Old French" but that is all.

Arthur Machen's The Terror.

It seems I expressed myself badly; what I mean are horro stories the plot of which takes place on the battlefields, the trenches, the no-man land etc.

Lovecraft's "The Temple."

Kim Newman's novel The Bloody Red Baron takes place during WW1 and includes scenes set in the trenches.

Lovecraft's "Dagon" and the 5th episode of "Herbert West: Reanimator" take place during the Great War. (Dale Nelson already mentioned "The Temple").

E.R. Burroughs' lost world trilogy (The Land that Time Forgot, etc.) a/k/a the "Caspak series", takes place during the Great War. One of his Tarzan Novels (Tarzan the Untamed a/k/a Tarzan and the Huns), also takes place during the Great War.

Thank you for the tips. Will look them up. By the way, there is a WWI horror movie called "Deathwatch" (2002), with Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis, about a group of English soldiers who come across an abandoned German trench full of dead bodies and ruled by some unknown forces.
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