18 best-selling fiction books like An Episode of Cathedral History by M.R. James

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An Episode of Cathedral History

By: M.R. James

3.29

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This vintage book contains Montague Rhodes James's chilling supernatural short story "An Episode of…

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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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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #11)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Howard Haycraft

3.78

Format: 48 pages, Print on Demand (Paperback)

Seis aventuras com Sherlock Holmes, o mais famoso detetive inglê “O Carbúnculo Azul”, “A Faixa Manc… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"...there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves..."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #11)

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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 Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Revelations in Black

By: Carl Jacobi

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Arkham House is pleased to present Carl Jacobi`s first book as a collection of unusual weird tales … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. For The Blood Is The Life: An Uncanny Gothic Vampire Tale

By: F. Marion Crawford

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE" by F. Marion Crawford text taken from his 1911 collection of weird fict… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. 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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8. The Musgrave Ritual (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #5)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.12

Format: None pages,

Holmes recounts to Watson the events arising after a visit from a university acquaintance, Reginald… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. The Room in the Tower

By: E.F. Benson

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
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10. A Christmas Tree

By: Charles Dickens

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Christmas Tree is perhaps best described as Dickens's "other" Christmas story, this is an elderly… read more

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  • fiction

11. Good Lady Ducayne

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.71

Format: None pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

13. The Comfort of Strangers

By: Ian McEwan

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

"Haunting and compelling." --The Times As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into th… read more

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14. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #12)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a young governess, unemployed and desperate for a position, accepts a job with a couple living… read more

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15. Silver Blaze (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #1)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of the most popular Sherlock Holmes short stories, "Silver Blaze" focuses on the disappearance … read more

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16. The Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Library Binding

The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more

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17. 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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18. The Man with the Twisted Lip (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #6)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Edward Raleigh

3.81

Format: None pages, Audio

Holmes discovers Dr. Watson in the black shadows of a smoke-filled opium den in the basement of the… read more

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19. 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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  • gothic
  • 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

20. Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula

By: Bram Stoker , None , Dacre Stoker , Valdimar Ásmundsson , None

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Powers of Darknessis an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Vald… read more

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21. 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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22. The Boarded Window

By: Ambrose Bierce

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

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23. The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

4.28

Format: None pages, Leather Bound

The tempest -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Twelfth night, or, What you wil… read more

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24. The Cockroach

By: Ian McEwan

3.26

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself tr… read more

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  • fiction
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25. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

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26. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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27. Alien: Inferno's Fall

By: Philippa Ballantine

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A gargantuan, horseshoe-shaped ship appears over the mining planet Shānmén, unleashing a black rain… read more

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  • horror
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28. An Episode of Cathedral History

By: M.R. James

3.29

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This vintage book contains Montague Rhodes James's chilling supernatural short story "An Episode of… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • ghost stories
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29. Between the Lights

By: E.F. Benson

2.83

Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition

Between the Lights is a short horror story published in 1912. Between the Lights is a part of a sho… read more

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  • horror

30. The Singular Death of Morton

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.39

Format: None pages, None

This book is annotated with a detailed and extensive biography and appreciation of Mr. Blackwood, w… read more

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  • short stories
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31. Pirates

By: E.F. Benson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 - 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoi… read more

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