18 Best horror books like Outside the Door by E.F. Benson

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Outside the Door

By: E.F. Benson

2.83

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 - 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoi…

If you liked the horror plot in Outside the Door by E.F. Benson , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Opener of the Way

By: Robert Bloch

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Opener of the Way is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories and was the author's firs… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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2. The Oblong Box

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.57

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844 in "Godey's Lady's Bo… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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3. The Challenge from Beyond

By: H.P. Lovecraft , C.L. Moore , Robert E. Howard , Frank Belknap Long , A. Merritt

3.37

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Long-lost Collaborative Novelette of Supernatural Horror! A strange fragment of quartz carved with … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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4. Old Bugs

By: H.P. Lovecraft

2.82

Format: None pages, Nook

With the onset of Prohibition, the Sheehan Billiard Room in Chicago became a sordid haunt for hard … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same."

-H.P. Lovecraft, Old Bugs

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5. The Terrible Old Man

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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6. Out of the Aeons

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Hazel Heald

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

"Out of the Aeons" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, a writer from Somerville, M… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. Rats

By: M.R. James

3.65

Format: 276 pages, ebook

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  • short stories
  • horror

8. The Mezzotint

By: M.R. James

5.00

Format: 646 pages,

This short story of the supernatural was originally published in 1904. It concerns a university don… read more

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9. The Whisperer in Darkness

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Ar… read more

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10. The Boarded Window

By: Ambrose Bierce

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

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11. 2BR02B

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

2BR02B is a satiric short story that imagines life & death in a future world where aging has been "… read more

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12. The Derelict

By: William Hope Hodgson

3.62

Format: 186 pages,

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13. The Red God Laughed

By: Thorp McClusky

3.79

Format: None pages, Magazine Entry

"A strange tale about the end of human life on Earth." Short story published in Weird Tales abou… read more

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  • short stories

14. When the Flame-Flowers Blossomed

By: Leslie F. Stone

3.67

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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  • horror
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15. The Epiphany of Death

By: Clark Ashton Smith

3.04

Format: None pages, ebook

This story is about a man who accompanies his friend down into his ancestral catacombs. Before ent… read more

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16. Outside the Door

By: E.F. Benson

2.83

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 - 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoi… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

17. They

By: Robert Barbour Johnson

3.29

Format: 3 pages, None

They is a short story by Robert Barbour Johnson. What inexplicable horror waited on the stone sl… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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18. It Walks by Night

By: Henry Kuttner

2.86

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories

19. The Shadow from the Steeple

By: Robert Bloch

3.64

Format: 20 pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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20. The Wood of the Dead

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.68

Format: 16 pages, Unknown Binding

The Wood of The Dead read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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21. The Creeper in the Crypt

By: Robert Bloch

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Psycho, a Lovecraftian tale of Arkham, town of eldritch horrors and monsters. Ga… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"The life of a painter demands solitude"

-Robert Bloch, The Creeper in the Crypt

22. The Ocean Ogre

By: Dana Carroll

3.67

Format: 6 pages, None

A tale of the thing called Alain Gervais that came aboard a ship at sea. read more

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23. .Murder in the grave

By: Edmond Hamilton

4.00

Format: None pages, None

."Murder in the Grave" is a short story by the American author, Edmond Hamilton. The story was publ… read more

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24. The Chadbourne Episode

By: Henry S. Whitehead

3.55

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
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25. An Evening's Entertainment

By: M.R. James

3.58

Format: None pages, ebook

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not p… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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26. The Corpse Light

By: J.E. Preston Muddock

3.53

Format: None pages, None

first published in 'Tales of Terror', 1899 read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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27. The Bed of Shadows

By: Fred R. Farrow Jr.

3.13

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

. "The Bed of Shadows" is a short story by the little-known author, Fred R. Farrow, Jr. Having d… read more

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  • short stories
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28. The Black Stone Statue

By: Mary Elizabeth Counselman

3.58

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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29. The Seeking Thing

By: Janet Hirsch

3.92

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

The Seeking Thing by Janet Hirsch This story came to us bearing a masculine-sounding pseudonym, … read more

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30. There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard

By: M.R. James

3.28

Format: 3 pages, ebook

Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

31. Lethe

By: Harold G. Shane

2.88

Format: 3 pages, None

A bizarre little story about the strange fascination of an old oil painting. read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

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