14 Top fiction books like A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee

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A Phantom Lover

By: Vernon Lee

3.66

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Do you remember my telling you, one afternoon that you sat upon the hearthstool at Florence, the st…

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1. The Old Nurse's Story

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
  • victorian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story

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2. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

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3. The Grey Woman

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

The Grey Woman is a gothic novella written by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is set in the mid-19th c… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • victorian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • gothic
  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Christabel

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4.37

Format: 224 pages,

Christabel is a long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The story of Christab… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Story of an African Farm

By: Olive Schreiner , Dan Jacobson

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A classic story of rural life in 19th Century South Africa, it is a searing indictment of the rigid… read more

Similar categories in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm book and Vernon Lee's A Phantom Lover

  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. The Open Door

By: Mrs. Oliphant

3.80

Format: None pages,

With a sense of mystery and suspense pervading the whole narrative, this is a very unusual work. Du… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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9. The Library Window

By: Mrs. Oliphant

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Ostensibly a ghost story, The Library Window is also an exploration of what is real and what is not… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
  • victorian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

10. The Lifted Veil

By: George Eliot

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Horror was my familiar. Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work… read more

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11. SCUM Manifesto

By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more

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12. Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more

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13. W.S.

By: L.P. Hartley

4.12

Format: 192 pages,

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14. The Road Through the Wall

By: Shirley Jackson

3.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Everyone knew the residents of Pepper Street were "nice" people -- especially the residents themsel… read more

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15. Hangsaman

By: Shirley Jackson

4.40

Format: 304 pages,

HANGSAMAN is Miss Jackson's second novel. The story is a simple one but the overtones are immediate… read more

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16. The Open Door

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.60

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) who also wrote under the pseudonym F. G. Tafford, was one of the most… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Riddell's The Open Door book and Vernon Lee's A Phantom Lover

  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Seep

By: Chana Porter

3.66

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more

Similar categories in Chana Porter's The Seep book and Vernon Lee's A Phantom Lover

  • lesbian
  • novella
  • fiction
"Grief is happy memories."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"

-Chana Porter, The Seep

Cover of A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee

18. A Phantom Lover

By: Vernon Lee

3.66

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Do you remember my telling you, one afternoon that you sat upon the hearthstool at Florence, the st… read more

Similar categories in Vernon Lee's A Phantom Lover book and Vernon Lee's A Phantom Lover

  • romance
  • gothic
  • lesbian
  • classics
  • british literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

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  • lesbian
  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. This World is Full of Monsters

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 38 pages, ebook

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."

-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

21. The Lost Tragedy

By: Denis Mackail

3.31

Format: None pages, None

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11 Best classics books like A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee

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The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

Arthur Machen

3.69

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The Grey Woman

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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Goblin Market

Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

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Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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Noah Medlock

3.72

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My Darling Dreadful Thing

Johanna van Veen

3.89

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3.96

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