23 Top short stories books like A Neighbour's Landmark by M.R. James

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A Neighbour's Landmark

By: M.R. James

3.24

Format: None pages, ebook

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

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1. In the Vault

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.24

Format: 15 pages, ebook

"In the Vault" is a story story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Howard Phillips … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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3. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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5. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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6. The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.94

Format: None pages,

In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. The Colour Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

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11. 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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  • fiction
  • horror
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12. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

18. 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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19. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

20. 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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21. 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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  • 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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22. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

23. A Tale of Jerusalem

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.25

Format: 40 pages, ebook

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24. 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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25. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

26. 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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27. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more

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28. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

29. Pomegranate Seed

By: Edith Wharton

3.81

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. Sh… read more

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30. A Neighbour's Landmark

By: M.R. James

3.24

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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  • fiction
  • supernatural
  • short stories
  • horror
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31. Bewitched

By: Edith Wharton

3.34

Format: None pages, None

“Bewitched” is a short story by Edith Warton, first published in 1926 in the collection “Here and B… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

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H.P. Lovecraft

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2.97

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H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

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3.64

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