16 Top horror books like Pallinghurst Barrow by Grant Allen

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Pallinghurst Barrow

By: Grant Allen

3.36

Format: None pages, None

A famous short story

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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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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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2. The Shining Pyramid

By: Arthur Machen

3.58

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Shining Pyramid is a novel by Arthur Machen, first published in 1923. The story follows a young… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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3. The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Quoth the raven nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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4. 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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"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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5. The Signalman

By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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6. The Grey Woman

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

The Grey Woman is a gothic novella written by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is set in the mid-19th c… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. The Bet

By: Anton Chekhov

5.00

Format: 160 pages, ebook

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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8. Thrawn Janet

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.24

Format: 202 pages,

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

9. Mortality

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens wa… read more

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10. Green Tea

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on the psychological complexities of human mind, the work is pervaded by a mysterious aura. A… read more

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11. The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, flutte… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

12. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By: Norman Doidge

4.22

Format: 129 pages,

An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the… read more

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13. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Jeeves, #15)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.60

Format: None pages,

A tome of well-mannered high comedy, from the "unrivaled master of the comedy of manners" - Enterta… read more

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14. 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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15. To Build a Fire

By: Jack London

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the… read more

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16. The Ghostly Rental

By: Henry James

3.71

Format: 435 pages, ebook

Employing the subtle methods of presenting mysterious ghost stories in the backdrop of psychologica… read more

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17. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

18. 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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19. The Devil of the Marsh

By: H.B. Marriott Watson

3.20

Format: 192 pages,

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20. Randalls Round

By: Eleanor Scott

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

BORN OF NIGHTMARES... Presented within are nine examples of the finest horror and supernatural lite… read more

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21. The Ash-Tree

By: M.R. James

3.94

Format: 229 pages, ebook

Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. … read more

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22. Man-Size in Marble

By: E. Nesbit , None

3.00

Format: 107 pages,

When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forwa… read more

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23. The Withered Arm

By: Thomas Hardy , None

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

<<Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) publico catorce novelas, una cincuentena de cuentos y mas de mil poemas.… read more

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24. O Caledonia

By: Elspeth Barker

3.98

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. 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
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 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

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26. Out of the Earth (World Cultural Heritage Library)

By: Arthur Machen

3.22

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An inventor of fantasies is a poor creature, heaven knows, when all the world is at war; but I thou… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. All Hallows

By: Walter de la Mare

3.27

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • horror
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28. Pallinghurst Barrow

By: Grant Allen

3.36

Format: None pages, None

A famous short story read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. The Shadow in the Corner

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.59

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Michael had often heard that dismal story: how, when Anthony Bascom's fair false wife had left him,… read more

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  • horror
  • classics
  • short stories
  • ghosts
Cover of Laura Silver Bell by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

30. Laura Silver Bell

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.47

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tal… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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31. The Sin Eater

By: Fiona Macleod

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A wet wind out of the south mazed and mooned through the sea-mist that hung over the Ross. In all t… read more

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The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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The Shining Pyramid

Arthur Machen

3.58

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The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon

4.03

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John William Polidori

4.00

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