10 Top mystery books like Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird by Elizabeth Dearnley

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Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird

By: Elizabeth Dearnley

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all o…

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1. Mystery in White

By: Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.38

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several pa… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • british literature
"That is why any general, however wrong he may be--take Napoleon, to avoid the politics of mere contemporary examples--must believe in himself to be successful, or dupe himself into such a belief. Ind…"

-Martin Edwards, Mystery in White

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2. Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this he… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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3. Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This… read more

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  • british literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
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4. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

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5. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

6. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

By: William Hope Hodgson

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author Willia… read more

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7. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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8. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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9. The Lonely Londoners

By: Sam Selvon

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more

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10. The Long Arm of the Law: Classic Police Stories

By: Martin Edwards

2.56

Format: 201 pages,

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11. The Library of Babel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres

4.35

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"O Time thy pyramids."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

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12. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

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  • british literature
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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13. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

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  • gothic
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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14. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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15. The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories

By: Martin Edwards

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is pla… read more

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  • british literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird by Elizabeth Dearnley

16. Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird

By: Elizabeth Dearnley

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all o… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Dearnley's Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird book and Elizabeth Dearnley's Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird

  • gothic
  • british literature
  • anthologies
  • victorian
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
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17. Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1)

By: Alice Bell

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize h… read more

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  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • fiction
"Figgy Wellington-Forge opened the driver’s door and unfolded from the car like a sexy deck chair."

-Alice Bell, Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1)

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18. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • short stories
  • british literature
Cover of Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope by Clive Myrie

19. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope

By: Clive Myrie

4.31

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more

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20. The Grey Chamber: Stories and Essays by Marjorie Bowen

By: Marjorie Bowen

3.71

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

British writer Marjorie Bowen (the pseudonym of Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long, 1885–1952) was a prol… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Ghost Stories and Other Haunting Tales from Yesterday: With 50 Supernatural Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Daniel Defoe, Rudyard Kipling, Washington Irving and Others by Click Americana

21. Ghost Stories and Other Haunting Tales from Yesterday: With 50 Supernatural Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Daniel Defoe, Rudyard Kipling, Washington Irving and Others

By: Click Americana

5.00

Format: 601 pages, Kindle Edition

Think you don’t scare easily? Try taking a creepy detour along the edge of the spirit realm with th… read more

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11 Best fiction books like Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird by Elizabeth Dearnley

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Mystery in White

Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.38

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Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries

Martin Edwards

4.04

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Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries

Martin Edwards

4.30

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The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

3.55

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21 must-read short stories books like The Grey Chamber: Stories and Essays by Marjorie Bowen by Marjorie Bowen

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The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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The Horror in the Museum

H.P. Lovecraft , Stephen Jones

4.02

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Lost Hearts

M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

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Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

M.R. James

3.50

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