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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Raven and Other Favorite Poems
Edgar Allan Poe · 50 pages
One of the most famous poems in the English language, "The Raven" first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-30s and a well-known poet, critic, and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. "The Raven" remains Poe's best-known work, yet it is only one of a dazzling series of poems and stories
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 476 pages
This multimedia product synchronizes Sermonti's reading of the Divind Comedy with the scrolling of the actual text across the screen, allowing the viewer to read and listen at the same time.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 95 pages
The Lords and the New Creatures
Jim Morrison · 141 pages
A collection of poems about the dark side of society.
The Spider and the Fly
Mary Howitt, Tony DiTerlizzi · 40 pages
An illustrated version of the well-known poem about the wily spider and the luckless fly. Includes an addendum with a modern-day example of why it is best not to trust strangers who offer treats.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Tim Burton · 128 pages
A bizarre menagerie of characters--including Oyster Boy, Brie Boy, Match Girl, and Stick Boy--search for love and understanding in a world that does not comprehend oddities.
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
Algernon Blackwood · 241 pages
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows," wh
Walking the Black Cat
Charles Simic · 83 pages
In this latest collection of poems, Charles Simic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, brings us startling new visions of the haunted landscape that has been his oeuvre, where the surreal and the mundane, the sacred and profane, are indistinguishable, a world where "everything is teetering on the edge of everything/With a polite smile.". A man waits at a bus stop for the love of his life, a
Something at the Window Is Scratching: Children's Tales for Disturbed Children
Roman Dirge · 128 pages
The End of the Story
Clark Ashton Smith · 284 pages
None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer." H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape "weird fiction" in the early twentieth century, alongside contempo
The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
John Lithgow · 304 pages
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to ap
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
Christopher Logue · 240 pages
The Collected Works
Kahlil Gibran · 880 pages
A collection of the major works of the celebrated poet, artist, and mystic features an array of stories, parables, prose poems, and essays that include "The Prophet," "The Wanderer," "Jesus the Son of Man," "Spirits Rebellious," and "The Gardens of the Prophet."
The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry
Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes · 498 pages
The Fall of Arthur
J.R.R. Tolkien · 236 pages
The first publication of a previously unknown narrative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur.