5 must-read ghosts books like Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories by Mike Ashley

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Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories

By: Mike Ashley

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; the last transmission of a dying man…

If you liked the ghosts plot in Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories by Mike Ashley , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Collected Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

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2. Wake Not the Dead

By: Ludwig Tieck

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who wa… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

3. Corrag

By: Susan Fletcher

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 'Corrag', Susan Fletcher tells us the story of an epic historic event, of the difference a singl… read more

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4. The Custom of the Country

By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more

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5. Gilded Needles

By: Michael McDowell

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunke… read more

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6. Harvey

By: Mary Chase

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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7. The Turnglass

By: Gareth Rubin

3.50

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

1880s England On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon … read more

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  • fiction
"These tales are intertwined and parasitic. Beguiling and, I think, a little strange too."

-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

"It was the wrong house for the Tooke family. It was see-through, allowing everyone to look in, while the people who lived there did their best to hide their lives away."

-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

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8. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

By: Michael McDowell

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"

-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

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9. 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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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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10. La sposa cadavere

By: Friedrich August Schulze

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"La sposa cadavere" è una spiazzante storia gotica costruita alla maniera delle scatole cinesi e si… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Witch (The Cursed Manuscripts, #1)

By: Iain Rob Wright

3.71

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

On December 21, 2012, according to the Mayan Calendar, the world was supposed to end. It didn't. Bu… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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13. The Spirit Engineer

By: A.J. West

3.71

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Belfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with sp… read more

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  • horror
  • fiction
  • ghosts
"Death is a beginning."

-A.J. West, The Spirit Engineer

"It is a brave thing to die."

-A.J. West, The Spirit Engineer

"If ghosts are real, death is not."

-A.J. West, The Spirit Engineer

"A mystery is only a fact in disguise"

-A.J. West, The Spirit Engineer

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14. La strega

By: Shirley Jackson

3.34

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Tre dei racconti qui riuniti hanno come protagoniste quelle creaturine infide, pericolose, enigmati… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Manningtree Witches

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more

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  • fiction
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-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

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16. La storia segreta di una contessa irlandese

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.95

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Lady Margaret è l'unica erede dell'immensa fortuna di un nobile. Alla morte del padre, non avendo a… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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17. Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.73

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Joyce Carol Oates, the “grand mistress of ghoulishness” ( Publishers Weekly ), showcases her master… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of La taverna degli assassini by Marcello Simoni

18. La taverna degli assassini

By: Marcello Simoni

3.23

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

Un giallo irrisolvibile Un’indagine di Vitale Federici Dalla penna dell’autore italiano di gialli s… read more

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19. The Animals at Lockwood Manor

By: Jane Healey

3.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty Ca… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Abissi. Brividi e terrori dalle profondità marine

By: Various

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Il fascino dei luoghi sconosciuti ha da sempre stimolato la curiosità dell’uomo, attratto e allo st… read more

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  • horror
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21. Il glicine rampicante e altri racconti gotico-femministi

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.25

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Nota ai più per La carta da parati gialla, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1850-1935) è stata una prolifi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell

22. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

By: Edward Parnell

3.95

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family t… read more

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  • horror
  • ghosts
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23. Catfish Rolling

By: Clara Kumagai

3.73

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Green Man of Eshwood Hall by Jacob Kerr

24. The Green Man of Eshwood Hall

By: Jacob Kerr

2.95

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1960, Izzy is thirteen, liv… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Time passed slowly and the heat was sticky, maddening, imprisoning. Dawn was the only time that had any freshness; by mid-morning the day's shape had been rolled flat as dough by the heat, and you we…"

-Jacob Kerr, The Green Man of Eshwood Hall

Cover of Dark Ladies: racconti di scrittrici vittoriane che vi faranno morire di paura by Sabrina Bottari

25. Dark Ladies: racconti di scrittrici vittoriane che vi faranno morire di paura

By: Sabrina Bottari

3.65

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Queste storie di fantasmi sono perfette da leggere nel profondo della notte, magari a lume di cande… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories

By: Mike Ashley

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; the last transmission of a dying man… read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • 19th century
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
Cover of El dique (Blackwater, #2) by Michael McDowell

27. El dique (Blackwater, #2)

By: Michael McDowell

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

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28. The Sirens

By: Emilia Hart

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can ima… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of La casa disabitata by Charlotte Riddell

29. La casa disabitata

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.38

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

La giovane Miss Helena eredita dal padre la proprietà di River Hall e decide di affittarla per rica… read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural (1895-1954) by Amara Thornton

30. Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural (1895-1954)

By: Amara Thornton

4.15

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

Handheld Press presents a new classic short story anthology, combining the supernatural and archaeo… read more

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  • 19th century
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Sepolcro o Delle differenti forme di ritorno by Lorenzo Incarbone

31. Sepolcro o Delle differenti forme di ritorno

By: Lorenzo Incarbone

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Come spesso accade, gli incontri più interessanti e sorprendenti avvengono tra mondi lontani, o che… read more

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  • horror

23 must-read fiction books like Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories by Mike Ashley

Transform Your Habits

Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Wake Not the Dead

Ludwig Tieck

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Turnglass

Gareth Rubin

3.50

Transform Your Habits

La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

Michael McDowell

4.05

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9 Best fantasy books like Abissi. Brividi e terrori dalle profondità marine by Various

Transform Your Habits

Wake Not the Dead

Ludwig Tieck

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Rain (Blackwater, #6)

Michael McDowell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Starve Acre

Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

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