13 must-read short stories books like A View from a Hill by M.R. James

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A View from a Hill

By: M.R. James

3.51

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A View From a Hill is a ghost story by M. R. James first published in The Living Age, 4 July 1925, …

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1. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.97

Format: 49 pages, ebook

".. Marie Roget" is often subtitled "A Sequel to The Murders in the Rue Morgue." It is a short stor… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"Разумът търси пътя към истината чрез поставяне на очебийното над обичайното."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"Целта на нашите вестници е по-скоро да правят сензации, отколкото да помагат за откриване на истината."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

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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
  • 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
  • audiobook
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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5. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.71

Format: 656 pages,

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

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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6. From Beyond

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.57

Format: 208 pages,

"From Beyond" is a short story by science fiction and horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. Hop Frog

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Don Kisner , None

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Hop-Frog and his friend Trippetta have been captured by one of the king's generals and brought back… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. A Descent into the Maelstrom

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.98

Format: None pages,

Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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9. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

10. 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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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 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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13. El escarabajo de oro

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.35

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

El escarabajo de oro (titulo original en ingles: The Gold Bug) es uno de los cuentos mas conocidos … read more

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14. The Dreams in the Witch House

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

This Halcyon Classics ebook is H.P. Lovecraft's classic occult tale of horror THE DREAMS IN THE WIT… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound-and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other, fainter noises which he suspected w…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House

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15. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

16. A Tale of Jerusalem

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.25

Format: 40 pages, ebook

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17. 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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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. A View from a Hill

By: M.R. James

3.51

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A View From a Hill is a ghost story by M. R. James first published in The Living Age, 4 July 1925, … read more

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  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • ghost stories
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20. The Wood of the Dead

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.68

Format: 16 pages, Unknown Binding

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

21. The Sand Walker

By: Fergus W. Hume

3.66

Format: None pages, None

The Sand-Walker: A Victorian Ghost Story Whatever you do, don't go on to the beaches at dusk, o… read more

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13 must-read fiction books like A View from a Hill by M.R. James

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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

Edgar Allan Poe

2.97

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El horror de Dunwich

H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

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Transform Your Habits

The Cold Embrace

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.56

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Lost Hearts

M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

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The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

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Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book

M.R. James

4.26

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