18 Best fiction books like Yuki-Onna by Lafcadio Hearn

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Yuki-Onna

By: Lafcadio Hearn

3.59

Format: 5 pages, ebook

明治時代に来日した日本研究家で、帰化後は小泉八雲の名で知られたラフカディオ・ハーンの作品(翻訳は田部 隆次)。茂作という老人と、巳之吉という若い見習いの、二人の樵がいた。ある吹雪の夜小屋で寝ていると…

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1. The Furnished Room (Tale Blazers)

By: O. Henry

3.51

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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2. The Pale Man

By: Julius Long

3.76

Format: 2 pages, ebook

A snappy obscurity tale about a man living in a small country hotel. He becomes obsessed with the a… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Empty House

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.85

Format: 249 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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4. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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5. Lost Hearts

By: M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

Format: 332 pages, ebook

The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • ghost stories
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6. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"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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7. The Ebony Frame

By: E. Nesbit

3.87

Format: 54 pages,

an excerpt from the beginning: To be rich is a luxurious sensation, the more so when you have plumb… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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8. Keep Out

By: Fredric Brown

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Fredric Brown is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" f… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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9. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
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10. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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11. Sredni Vashtar

By: Saki

4.09

Format: 296 pages, ebook

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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12. 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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

14. The Eyes Have It

By: Philip K. Dick

4.05

Format: 336 pages, ebook

It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another p… read more

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15. House of the Nightmare

By: Edward Lucas White

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardback

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16. 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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17. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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18. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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19. The Mezzotint

By: M.R. James

5.00

Format: 646 pages,

This short story of the supernatural was originally published in 1904. It concerns a university don… read more

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20. 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
  • classics
  • short stories
  • 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

21. Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more

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22. Afterward

By: Edith Wharton

4.14

Format: None pages,

Or, rather, Ned answered, in the same strain, "why, amid so much that's ghostly, it can never affir… read more

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23. 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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24. The Boarded Window

By: Ambrose Bierce

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

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25. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

26. The Hanging Stranger

By: Philip K. Dick

3.94

Format: 336 pages, ebook

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27. August Heat

By: W.F. Harvey

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

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28. Bricket Bottom

By: Amyas Northcote

3.82

Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition

Amyas Northcote’s Bricket Bottom is a strange and disturbing tale from the golden age of ghost stor… read more

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29. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • ghost stories
"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

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30. Thurnley Abbey

By: Perceval Landon

3.68

Format: 12 pages, ebook

The classic 1908 ghost story by Perceval Landon, originally featured in his book, Raw Edges: Studie… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
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31. Yuki-Onna

By: Lafcadio Hearn

3.59

Format: 5 pages, ebook

明治時代に来日した日本研究家で、帰化後は小泉八雲の名で知られたラフカディオ・ハーンの作品(翻訳は田部 隆次)。茂作という老人と、巳之吉という若い見習いの、二人の樵がいた。ある吹雪の夜小屋で寝ていると… read more

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  • classics
  • folklore
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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  • fantasy
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3.60

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4.06

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3.87

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4.06

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3.40

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