Amour Dure
By: Vernon Lee
3.62
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
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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
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- ghosts
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"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
2. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- horror
"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
3. A Sicilian Romance
By: Ann Radcliffe
3.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of t… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- horror
"Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has th…"-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
"As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls s…"-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
4. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- short stories
- horror
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleas… read more
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- gothic
- classics
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6. 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
- classics
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7. Gothic
By: Fred Botting
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Got… read more
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- gothic
- horror
8. Der Sandmann
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more
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- classics
- short stories
- horror
9. The Voice in the Night
By: William Hope Hodgson
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Audiobook
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consistin… read more
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- classics
- short stories
- horror
10. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- classics
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
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
- horror
"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
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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- gothic
- classics
- short stories
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13. The Death of Halpin Frayser
By: Ambrose Bierce
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Death of Halpin Frayseris a gothic mystery story, first published in 1893 in the story collecti… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- short stories
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14. La casa y el cerebro
By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
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- gothic
- classics
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- short stories
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15. Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5)
By: Mira Grant
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship … read more
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- horror
16. The Willows
By: Algernon Blackwood
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more
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17. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
By: Oscar Wilde
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim… read more
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18. How Love Came to Professor Guildea
By: None
3.48
Format: 241 pages,
Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950) was an English journalist and novelist. He wrote lyrics for music… read more
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19. Herr Arnes penningar
By: Selma Lagerlöf
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
En narmast gotisk roman baserad pa verkliga handelser i Bohuslan pa 1570-talet. Prasten Herr Arne b… read more
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20. The Lost Stradivarius
By: John Meade Falkner
4.12
Format: 192 pages,
Chilling in the extreme, The Lost Stradivariusis a classic tale of the supernatural. While practici… read more
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21. 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
- 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
22. The Inexperienced Ghost
By: H.G. Wells
3.42
Format: 8 pages,
A short story by H.G. Wells. Do not confuse with The Inexperienced Ghost, a collection of H.G. Well… read more
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23. The Ghost Ship
By: Richard Barham Middleton
4.34
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Middleton was a British poet and short story writer. The Ghost Ship is his best-known work.… read more
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24. The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
By: Amelia B. Edwards
3.77
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Amelia B. Edwards is acknowledged as one of the best Victorian ghost story writers. She was one of … read more
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- gothic
- classics
- ghosts
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- horror
"The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them."-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
"All tradition,’ said the Professor, ‘is a type of spiritual truth. The superstitions of the East, and the mythologies of the North—the beautiful Fables of old Greece, and the bold investigations of m…"-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
"The world,’ he said, ‘grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable all that resists expe…"-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
25. The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
By: John Kendrick Bangs
3.60
Format: None pages, None
A short story originally published in the collection The Water Ghost and Others. first published… read more
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26. An Eddy on the Floor
By: Bernard Capes
3.20
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
After attending a séance at an acquaintance’s home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from ano… read more
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- short stories
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27. Amour Dure
By: Vernon Lee
3.62
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
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28. Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk: A Ghost Story for Christmas
By: Frank Cowper
3.35
Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition
Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebration… read more
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29. The Phantom Rickshaw
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.33
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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