12 best-selling horror books like Ghosts of Christmas Past by Tim Martin

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Ghosts of Christmas Past

By: Tim Martin

3.44

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slip…

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1. The Witchcraft of Salem Village

By: Shirley Jackson

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A detailed account of one of the strangest and most shocking episodes in American history, written … read more

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  • horror
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2. The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Two

By: Allen Grove

4.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen more chilling tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals Follow… read more

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  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Driver's Seat

By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more

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  • fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

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4. The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.03

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. Poirot tasks his friends with solv… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

5. The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

By: Tara Moore

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century perio… read more

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6. The Dream

By: Agatha Christie

2.92

Format: None pages, ebook

Hercule Poirot is reluctant to answer a letter demanding his services by the reclusive and eccentri… read more

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7. Black Sheep

By: Susan Hill

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The village is called Mount of Zeal. It's built in a bowl like an amphitheatre, with the winding ge… read more

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8. The Afterlife of Holly Chase

By: Cynthia Hand

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On Christmas Eve five years ago, Holly was visited by three ghosts who showed her how selfish and s… read more

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9. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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10. The Christmas Guest

By: Peter Swanson

3.63

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hal… read more

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  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

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  • gothic
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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12. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

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  • christmas
  • fiction
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13. The Other Half of Augusta Hope

By: Joanna Glen

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in.At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

By: Samit Basu

3.59

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

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15. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

By: Robin Ince

3.84

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more

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"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."

-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain

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16. Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales For Christmas Nights

By: Tanya Kirk

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it w… read more

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  • gothic
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
Cover of Murder at the Theatre Royale (Christmas Mystery, #2) by Ada Moncrieff

17. Murder at the Theatre Royale (Christmas Mystery, #2)

By: Ada Moncrieff

3.18

Format: 253 pages, ebook

It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extr… read more

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  • christmas
  • fiction
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18. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

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  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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19. Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (Tales of the Weird)

By: Tanya Kirk

3.84

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed – but the ghosts are … read more

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  • gothic
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • ghost stories
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20. Christmas is Murder: A Chilling Short Story Collection

By: Val McDermid

3.57

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are de… read more

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  • christmas
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • fiction
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21. The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance

By: M.R. James

3.13

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

"What first interested me in ghosts? This I can tell you quite definitely. In my childhood I chance… read more

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  • gothic
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
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22. The Toll House

By: Carly Reagon

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The past isn't always dead and buried . . . A house with history. That's how the estate agent de… read more

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  • gothic
  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

By: Louise Kennedy

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of Chilling Effect (Chilling Effect, #1) by Valerie Valdes

24. Chilling Effect (Chilling Effect, #1)

By: Valerie Valdes

3.53

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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25. The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story

By: Dan Jones

3.45

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. Published in a beautifu… read more

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  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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26. Ghosts From the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

By: Tony Medawar

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of t… read more

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  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
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27. Ghosts of Christmas Past

By: Tim Martin

3.44

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slip… read more

Similar categories in Tim Martin's Ghosts of Christmas Past book and Tim Martin's Ghosts of Christmas Past

  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • ghost stories
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28. Murder in the Falling Snow

By: Cecily Gayford

3.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It's only the afternoon, but dusk is already falling and a log fire burning in the grate. Outside, … read more

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  • christmas
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • fiction
Cover of The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts by Jeff Belanger

29. The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts

By: Jeff Belanger

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Step into the dark roots of Christmas past where the Krampus punishes the bad boys and girls. Ch… read more

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  • christmas
  • horror
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30. Winter Tales

By: Dawn Casey

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A treasury of stories celebrating the wonders of winter, and the qualities within that warm our hea… read more

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  • anthologies
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies by Willow Winsham

31. Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies

By: Willow Winsham

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Following the hugely popular Treasury of Seas and Rivers and Woodlands and Forests comes Treasury … read more

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