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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDuma Key
Stephen King · 704 pages
After a construction accident in which he loses his right arm and his divorce, Edgar Freemantle moves from Minnesota to Florida to begin what his psychiatrist described as a "geographic cure." He rediscovers his love of painting and finds that he is good at it but his paintings seem to have something "more" to them. On Duma Key he also finds a new friendship with Wireman, a kindred spirit seekin
20th Century Ghosts
Joe Hill · 336 pages
Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945...Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town...Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, bu
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lafcadio Hearn · 101 pages
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton · 280 pages
The lady's maid's bell. -- The eyes. -- Afterward. -- Kerfol. -- The triumph of night. -- Miss Mary Pask. -- Bewitched. -- Mr. Jones. -- Pomegranate seed. -- The looking glass. -- All Souls'. --
Tales of Moonlight and Rain
Ueda Akinari · 248 pages
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
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Essential Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe · 642 pages
Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpected—and surprisingly modern—flashes of dark humor and irony. This anthology offers an exceptionally generous se
Dark Forces
Dennis Etchison, Theodore Sturgeon, Ramsey Campbell, Clifford D. Simak, Russell Kirk, Lisa Tuttle, Robert Bloch, Edward Gorey, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Charles L.Grant, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Manly Wade Wellman, Richard Christian Matheson, Gahan Wilson, Stephen King, Kealan Patrick Burke, Edward · 544 pages
Contains: The Late Shift by Dennis Etchison The Enemy by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dark Angel by Edward Bryant The Crest of Thirty-six by Davis Grubb Mark Ingestre: The Customer’s Tale by Robert Aickman Where the Summer Ends by Karl Edward Wagner The Bingo Master by Joyce Carol Oates Children of the Kingdom by T. E. D. Klein The Detective of Dreams by Gene Wolfe Vengeance Is. By Theodore Stu
The Winter Spirits
Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman · 464 pages
THE DAZZLING SECOND GHOST STORY COLLECTION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON, NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha PulleyElizabeth Macneal Laura Purcell Susan Stokes-Ch
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 142 pages
The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
Cold Moon Over Babylon
Michael McDowell · 256 pages
16-year-old Margaret Larkin is found murdered: tied to her own bicycle and drown in the Styx River where her parents died in an accident ten years before. Her murderer, wealthy and insane Nathan Redfield, believes he got away with the crime. But soon he begins to see not only the ghost of Margaret, but other watery spirits that pursue him. The fever of a guilty conscience? Encroaching insanity? Or
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 246 pages
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with po
Six Scary Stories
Elodie Harper, Manuela Saragosa, Paul Bassett Davies, Michael Button, Stuart Johnstone, Neil Hudson · 162 pages
Apartment 16
Adam Nevill · 466 pages
A House at the Bottom of a Lake
Josh Malerman · 155 pages
Ghost and Horror Stories
Ambrose Bierce · 199 pages
Ambrose Bierce was one of the strangest phenomena of American letters, The adjectives used to describe his writing--and character--tend to have a rather uncomplimentary ring: "venomous,""vindictive," "paranoid," "rancorous," "malevolent," yet few would deny his brilliance of intellect and style. About half of his fiction output consisted of stories of horror and the supernatural, a genre which app
Collected Ghost Stories
M.R. James · 468 pages
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.
A Winter Haunting
Dan Simmons · 303 pages
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and
Hell House
Richard Matheson · 256 pages
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been
Cold Eternity
S.A. Barnes · 248 pages
"You'll want to read this one with the lights on."—Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author Cold Eternity is the instant USA Today bestselling space horror from S.A. Barnes, perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death... Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for w
Naomi's Room
Jonathan Aycliffe · 192 pages
Charles, el narrador, es un profesor de Cambridge que vive retirado en la misma casa donde tiempo atrás fue salvajemente descuartizada su pequeña hija Naomí, crimen al que siguió una serie de muertes brutales. Nadie parece capacitado para encontrar una explicación a los asesinatos. Sin embargo, en la antigua habitación de Naomí comienzan a producirse hechos inquietantes, al tiempo que los moradore
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood · 176 pages
Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951).