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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Three Impostors and Other Stories
Arthur Machen · 234 pages
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Sterling, Anna Helen Crofts, T.E.D. Klein · 318 pages
The Haunted Dolls' House
M.R. James · 208 pages
Evil comes with many different faces.A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls' house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the tomb of a Swedish count will not rest quietly...M. R. James's chilling ghost stories reveal a world where the familiar becomes diaboli
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker · 131 pages
Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
Robert Aickman · 254 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'. --
In a Glass Darkly
J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 339 pages
In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. The book, published in 1872 a year before Le Fanu's death, is named from a passage in Corinthians which speaks of humankind perceiving the world "through a glass darkly." The stories are told from the posthumous writings of an occult detective named Dr Martin Hesselius. In Green Tea a cle
Gaslit Horror: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others
Hugh Lamb, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert W. Chambers, Bernard Capes, J.E. Preston Muddock, Isabella Varley Banks, Charles J. Mansford · 256 pages
Includes : Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks - The Pride of the Corbyns (1882) ; Charles J. Mansford - Maw-Sayah (1894) ; Mrs. L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace - The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel (1897) ; Bernard Capes - The Black Reaper (1899) ; S. Levett-Yeats - The Devil's Manuscript (1899) ; Dick Donovan - The Mystic Spell (1899) ; Lafcadio Hearn - Nightmare-Touch (1900) ; Robert W. Chambers - Un Peu d'Amour
The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales
Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 256 pages
Occultation and Other Stories
Laird Barron · 245 pages
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Gui
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
William L. Hedges · 358 pages
Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Henry James · 266 pages
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
Complete Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens · 288 pages
The queer chair -- A madman's manuscript -- The goblins who stole a sexton -- The ghosts of the mail -- The baron of Grogzwig -- A Christmas carol -- The haunted man and the ghost's bargain -- To be read at dusk -- The ghost in the bride's chamber -- The haunted house -- The trial for murder : to be taken with a grain of salt -- The signalman -- Christmas ghosts -- The lawyer and the
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
Ghosts by Gaslight
Peter S. Beagle, Terry Dowling, Garth Nix, Gene Wolfe, Margo Lanagan, Sean Williams, Robert Silverberg, John Harwood, Richard Harland, Marly Youmans, Theodora Goss, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Paul Park, Jeffrey Ford, James K. Morrow, John Langan · 389 pages
A collection of steampunk and supernatural tales that breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
William Hope Hodgson · 134 pages
The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
Sarah Monette · 253 pages
An unwilling foray into necromancy makes Booth attractive to the creates who roam the darkness of the world. Ghouls, ghosts, and incubi single him out as one of their own in these ten stories.
The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
E.F. Benson, Richard Dalby · 624 pages
A collection of horror stories - not only ghosts - by one of the early masters of the genre. Most are set in southern England, but there are stories also set in Scotland, the Alps and Egypt.