5 Best ghost stories books like Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

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Thurnley Abbey

By: Perceval Landon

3.68

Format: 12 pages, ebook

The classic 1908 ghost story by Perceval Landon, originally featured in his book, Raw Edges: Studie…

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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
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
"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 Cold Embrace

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.56

Format: 96 pages, Audiobook

After a German artist's cool betrayal, his fiancee's retribution is eerily apt. read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
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3. The Haunted House

By: Charles Dickens , Wesley Stace

3.08

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Compiled by Charles Dickens, and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contribu… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Evil communications corrupt good manners."

-Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

"And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to m…"

-Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

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4. The Signalman

By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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

By: M.R. James

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Professor Parkins finds an old whistle, his stay at Globe Inn takes a turn for the eerie. read more

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  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
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6. 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

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Room in the Tower

By: E.F. Benson

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more

Similar categories in E.F. Benson's The Room in the Tower book and Perceval Landon's Thurnley Abbey

  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

8. La casa y el cerebro

By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The Shunned House

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.98

Format: 480 pages,

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

10. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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11. The Upper Berth

By: F. Marion Crawford

4.09

Format: None pages,

Every now and again, the smell sea water permeates the air, as if the cabin had been flooded and ne… read more

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12. The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, flutte… read more

Similar categories in Daphne du Maurier's The Birds book and Perceval Landon's Thurnley Abbey

  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook

13. The Ghostly Rental

By: Henry James

3.71

Format: 435 pages, ebook

Employing the subtle methods of presenting mysterious ghost stories in the backdrop of psychologica… read more

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14. The Judge's House

By: Bram Stoker

3.00

Format: None pages,

A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds th… read more

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15. The Triumph of Night

By: Edith Wharton

3.60

Format: None pages,

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16. A Warning to the Curious

By: M.R. James

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently … read more

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17. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

18. Man-Size in Marble

By: E. Nesbit , None

3.00

Format: 107 pages,

When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forwa… read more

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19. Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

What had become of him? And what lad was that going up the path by which I had just come-that tall … read more

Similar categories in Amelia B. Edwards's Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story book and Perceval Landon's Thurnley Abbey

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
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20. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

Cover of Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

21. Thurnley Abbey

By: Perceval Landon

3.68

Format: 12 pages, ebook

The classic 1908 ghost story by Perceval Landon, originally featured in his book, Raw Edges: Studie… read more

Similar categories in Perceval Landon's Thurnley Abbey book and Perceval Landon's Thurnley Abbey

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
Cover of Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Frank Cowper

22. Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk: A Ghost Story for Christmas

By: Frank Cowper

3.35

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebration… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
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23. The Black Veil

By: Charles Dickens

3.39

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

“The Black Veil” is a gothic tale written by English author Charles Dickens (1812-1870). It was fir… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook

24. The Horror at Chilton Castle

By: Joseph Payne Brennan

3.83

Format: None pages, None

A man visits is ancestral homeland and the castle where he discovers that his family harbors dark s… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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25. Playmates

By: A.M. Burrage

4.13

Format: 24 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. The Shadow in the Corner

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.59

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Michael had often heard that dismal story: how, when Anthony Bascom's fair false wife had left him,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

27. The Telephone

By: Mary Treadgold

2.86

Format: 7 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • horror

28. In the Tube

By: E.F. Benson

3.51

Format: 14 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
  • audiobook
"If you come to think of it, the one thing which the human mind cannot grasp is the finite, not the infinite, the temporary, not the eternal."

-E.F. Benson, In the Tube

29. "Where angels fear-"

By: Manly Wade Wellman

3.67

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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  • horror
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30. A Dead Finger

By: Sabine Baring-Gould

2.82

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Sabine's Baring-Gould's strangest and most enduring works are those which are based on fantastical … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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31. No 11 Welham Square

By: Herbert Stephen

3.25

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

"No. 11 Welham Square" is an enthralling and atmospheric novel that transports readers to the heart… read more

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3.66

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3.89

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4.06

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