19 must-read short stories books like John Charrington’s Wedding by E. Nesbit

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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…

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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
  • ghosts
  • 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. El horror de Dunwich

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Deadly forces are about to be awakened! In the degenerate, unpopular backwater of Dunwich, Wilbu… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. 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
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • ghost stories
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4. The String Quartet

By: Virginia Woolf

3.38

Format: 8 pages, ebook

An e-publication of a single short story. The download link is below. read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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5. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

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6. 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
  • fantasy
"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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7. 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
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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8. 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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9. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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10. The Waxwork

By: None

3.52

Format: 288 pages,

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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11. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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12. 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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13. Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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14. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.83

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories

15. Good Lady Ducayne

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.71

Format: None pages,

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Library Window

By: Mrs. Oliphant

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Ostensibly a ghost story, The Library Window is also an exploration of what is real and what is not… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

17. The Outsider

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: 290 pages,

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more

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18. The Damned Thing

By: Ambrose Bierce , None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, kindle

This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - ess… read more

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19. The Kit Bag

By: Algernon Blackwood

5.00

Format: 500 pages, ebook

"The Kit-Bag" is a short ghost story by the British author Algernon Blackwood. It was first publish… read more

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20. 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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21. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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22. The Rats in the Walls

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more

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23. The Wendigo

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-know… read more

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24. Afterward

By: Edith Wharton

4.14

Format: None pages,

Or, rather, Ned answered, in the same strain, "why, amid so much that's ghostly, it can never affir… read more

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25. Nyarlathotep

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Chuck BB

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Presents horror legend HP Lovecraft's short prose piece Nyarlathotep. This book presents Lovecraft'… read more

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26. 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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27. 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
  • fantasy
"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

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28. 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
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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29. The Scary Book of Christmas Lore: 50 Terrifying Yuletide Tales from Around the World

By: Tim Rayborn

3.60

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen…but do you recall the most petrifying Christmas fi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of John Charrington’s Wedding by E. Nesbit

30. 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

Similar categories in E. Nesbit's John Charrington’s Wedding book and E. Nesbit's John Charrington’s Wedding

  • romance
  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • ghost stories
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31. The Striding Place

By: Gertrude Atherton

2.88

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The Striding Place is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1896… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

20 must-read fiction books like John Charrington’s Wedding by E. Nesbit

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The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

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Lost Hearts

M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

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The String Quartet

Virginia Woolf

3.38

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

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Roald Dahl

3.84

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William Hope Hodgson

3.47

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