15 Best classics books like Mrs. Amworth by E.F. Benson

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Mrs. Amworth

By: E.F. Benson

3.56

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

MRS AMWORTH is the third volume in the Ash-Tree Press series collecting all of E. F. Benson's known…

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1. The Vampire Maid

By: Hume Nisbet

3.10

Format: 11 pages, Kindle Edition

Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition. read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
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2. Lost Hearts

By: M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

Format: 332 pages, ebook

The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
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3. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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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
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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5. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • classics
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6. For The Blood Is The Life: An Uncanny Gothic Vampire Tale

By: F. Marion Crawford

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE" by F. Marion Crawford text taken from his 1911 collection of weird fict… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • horror
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7. The Waxwork

By: None

3.52

Format: 288 pages,

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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8. Into The Sun

By: Robert Duncan Milne

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Audiobook

An imaginative and influential short story from an early contributor to the science fiction genre A… read more

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9. Henry VI, Part 1

By: William Shakespeare , Stephen Orgel , A.R. Braunmuller

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket.… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

10. Good Lady Ducayne

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.71

Format: None pages,

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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11. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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12. 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
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13. 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

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Timber

By: John Galsworthy

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Unbound

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  • horror

15. Ligeia

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.51

Format: 235 pages,

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more

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16. Luella Miller

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

3.79

Format: 249 pages, ebook

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17. Count Magnus

By: M.R. James

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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18. Giaur

By: Lord Byron

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Powiesc poetycka autorstwa George'a Byrona, opublikowana po raz pierwszy w 1813 roku. Stanowi jedno… read more

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19. The Mark of the Beast

By: Rudyard Kipling , B.J. Harrison

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Audible Audio

When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" mar… read more

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20. Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more

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21. The Disappearance Of Crispina Umberleigh

By: Saki

4.42

Format: 344 pages, ebook

A domineering wife and mother unobtrusively and inexplicably vanishes. read more

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22. The Squaw

By: Bram Stoker

4.40

Format: 80 pages,

"The Squaw" was first published in book form in 1914 in Stoker's third collection of short stories … read more

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23. The Schartz-Metterklume Method

By: Saki

3.80

Format: 144 pages,

At a railway station, an arrogant and overbearing woman (Mrs. Quabarl) mistakes the mischievous Lad… read more

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24. Mathilda

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

Mary Shelley's "Matilda" - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated fro… read more

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25. 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)

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26. Mrs. Amworth

By: E.F. Benson

3.56

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

MRS AMWORTH is the third volume in the Ash-Tree Press series collecting all of E. F. Benson's known… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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27. John Charrington’s Wedding

By: E. Nesbit

3.67

Format: 11 pages, Kindle Edition

"John Charrington's Wedding" is a short ghost story by the British author Edith Nesbit. It was writ… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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28. An Episode of Cathedral History

By: M.R. James

3.29

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This vintage book contains Montague Rhodes James's chilling supernatural short story "An Episode of… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural

29. Aurelia

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

3.26

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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30. "Boil Some Water - Lots of It"

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.30

Format: 9 pages, Kindle Edition

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of nov… read more

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31. The Loathly Opposite

By: John Buchan

3.56

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

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