21 Top horror books like The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo by Uriah Derick d'Arcy

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The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

By: Uriah Derick d'Arcy

2.99

Format: 59 pages, ebook

In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published “The Vampyre: A Tale by …

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1. Schalken the Painter

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.56

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tal… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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2. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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3. Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.52

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Surely never such had existed before—a misshapen dwarf, with squinting eyes, distorted features, an… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"And to my young heart the idea of death came for the first time blended with that of joy."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

"Revenge! — the word seemed balm to me; I hugged it, caressed it, till, like a serpent, it stung me."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no l…"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

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4. 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
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"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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5. Fragment of a Novel

By: Lord Byron

4.17

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Lord Byron's Fragment of a Novel book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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6. Wake Not the Dead

By: Ludwig Tieck

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who wa… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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7. The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

8. The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell… read more

Similar categories in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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10. La Morte Amoureuse

By: Théophile Gautier

3.76

Format: None pages,

He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the … read more

Similar categories in Théophile Gautier's La Morte Amoureuse book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction

12. The Prisoner of Zenda

By: Anthony Hope

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from… read more

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13. Anna Svärd

By: Selma Lagerlöf

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Huvudpersonerna ar den unge prasten Karl Artur Ekenstedt och hans hustru, Anna Svard, som han anser… read more

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14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg , John Carey

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more

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15. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

Similar categories in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • horror
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

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16. Auto da Barca do Inferno

By: Gil Vicente

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Trata-se de uma alegoria dramática: duas são as barcas em que os personagens podem subir - a do Inf… read more

Similar categories in Gil Vicente's Auto da Barca do Inferno book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • classics
  • fiction

17. The Red Room

By: H.G. Wells

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"It's your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm once more. I heard the faint sound of … read more

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18. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

19. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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20. La Dame pâle

By: Alexandre Dumas

3.07

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A traves de la voz de una enigmatica y palida mujer, Alejandro Dumas nos introduce en una historia … read more

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21. Girl

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more

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22. The Eye

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Dmitri Nabokov

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eyeis as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refracti… read more

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23. Florence & Giles

By: John Harding

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, sinister Gothic tale inspired by and in the tradition of Henry James's The Turn of the … read more

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24. I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

4.06

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more

Similar categories in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • vampires
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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25. Undercover (Into Shadow, #5)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.01

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

When a stranger comes to town, secrets are sure to come out. New York Times bestselling author Tams… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The dancer moaned and scrabbled at the cage mesh. She made guttural honks of frustration and excitement. The raspberry mouth opened to reveal the long black tongue and pointed pink teeth. It was a lo…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Undercover (Into Shadow, #5)

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26. House of Hunger

By: Alexis Henderson

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Gi… read more

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  • gothic
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"To love is to devour"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed. - Countess Lisavet Bathory"

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve staked my time on it, and when you’re as busy as I am there’s no gamble so big as that."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

"I’ve built you a house out of my bones and still it’s as if you believe there are cracks in it."

-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

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27. When I Arrived at the Castle

By: Emily Carroll

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • gothic
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage by Florence Marryat

28. The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

By: Florence Marryat

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harriet Brandt defies conventional categories, and does not fit socially although she is carefree a… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo by Uriah Derick d'Arcy

29. The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

By: Uriah Derick d'Arcy

2.99

Format: 59 pages, ebook

In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published “The Vampyre: A Tale by … read more

Similar categories in Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo book and Uriah Derick d'Arcy's The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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30. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • gothic
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Immortal Pleasures by V. Castro

31. Immortal Pleasures

By: V. Castro

2.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An ancient Aztec vampire roams the modern world in search of vengeance and love in this seductive d… read more

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  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy

22 Best fiction books like The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo by Uriah Derick d'Arcy

Transform Your Habits

Schalken the Painter

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.56

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.52

Transform Your Habits

The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

Arthur Machen

3.69

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21 best-selling fiction books like House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

T. Kingfisher

3.89

None

T. Kingfisher

None

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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