11 best-selling short stories books like The Terrible Old Man by H.P. Lovecraft

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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 …

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1. The Premature Burial

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

Format: 32 pages,

The Premature Burial is a horror classic written by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a horror short story o… read more

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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

"I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, bad caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind; and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay; so that I co…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

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2. 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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"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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3. 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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4. Berenice

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Bereniceis a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The tale is centered on the death of a young gi… read more

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5. 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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6. 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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7. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

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

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8. 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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9. Morella

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.55

Format: 160 pages,

SPV Edgar Allan Poe | Morella (Folge 33) read more

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10. 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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11. H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon

By: Ben Templesmith

3.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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12. Silence: A Fable

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.00

Format: 384 pages,

A fable about a demon and a man in an enchanted land. 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 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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"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

15. The Boarded Window

By: Ambrose Bierce

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

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16. The Sphinx

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.36

Format: 524 pages,

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