23 must-read short stories books like Climax for a ghost story by I.A. Ireland

Climax for a ghost story

By: I.A. Ireland

3.60

Format: None pages, None

I. A. Ireland, English savant born in Hanley in 1871. He claimed descent from the infamous impostor…

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Cover of The Signalman by Charles Dickens, Scott Cohn

1. 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
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

Cover of Casa tomada [Cuento] by Julio Cortázar, Juan Fresan

2. Casa tomada [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan

3.95

Format: 5 pages, ebook

Cuento "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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3. Araby

By: James Joyce

3.65

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."

-James Joyce, Araby

"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"

-James Joyce, Araby

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4. Barbie-Q

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.31

Format: 110 pages,

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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6. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of La Mujer Alta / The Tall Woman - Bilingual Spanish-English Edition / Edición bilingüe español-inglés by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Tatiana Zelenska, Igor Kogan, None

7. La Mujer Alta / The Tall Woman - Bilingual Spanish-English Edition / Edición bilingüe español-inglés

By: Pedro Antonio de Alarcón , Tatiana Zelenska , Igor Kogan , None

3.00

Format: 144 pages,

Read the short story by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon as an enhanced dual language ebook. Tap on the und… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. A School Story

By: M.R. James

4.60

Format: None pages, ebook

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

9. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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10. The Playground

By: Ray Bradbury

3.78

Format: 584 pages,

"The Playground" was part of the first hardcover edition of Ray Bradbury's legendary work Fahrenhei… read more

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11. Máscaras venecianas / La sierva ajena

By: Adolfo Bioy Casares

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

La impecable construccion de sus relatos es, quiza, la caracteristica que con mayor frecuencia ha d… read more

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12. Laura

By: Saki

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

A famous short story read more

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13. Happy Endings

By: Margaret Atwood

4.12

Format: 440 pages, ebook

Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more

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14. How Love Came to Professor Guildea

By: None

3.48

Format: 241 pages,

Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950) was an English journalist and novelist. He wrote lyrics for music… read more

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15. The Gift of the Magi

By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger

4.11

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

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16. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

17. Pomegranate Seed

By: Edith Wharton

3.81

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. Sh… read more

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18. 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

19. The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit

By: Giovanni Papini

3.94

Format: None pages, ebook

"– I am but a figure in a dream." read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Frritt-Flacc by Jules Verne

20. Frritt-Flacc

By: Jules Verne

3.30

Format: None pages, None

Frritt-Flacc est une nouvelle fantastique de Jules Verne. read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

21. Death and the Gardener

By: Jean Cocteau

3.57

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of 25 Ağustos 1983 ve Diğer Öyküler by Jorge Luis Borges

22. 25 Ağustos 1983 ve Diğer Öyküler

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.98

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

"Yüz otuz yaşına, ötesinde yaşamın artık bir yüke dönüştüğü yaşa kadar seni hayatta tutmalarını dil… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

23. A Scent of Mimosa

By: Francis King

3.76

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

24. Importance

By: Manuel Mujica Lainez

3.88

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe

25. Dead Men's Path

By: Chinua Achebe

3.58

Format: 4 pages, None

Dead Men's Path is a short story by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, first published in 1953. The… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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26. Saboteur

By: Ha Jin

3.85

Format: None pages, None

Ha Jin's “Saboteur” is the story of a university lecturer in China who is arrested and accused of b… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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27. The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

By: Tennessee Williams

3.44

Format: None pages, None

"Sometimes you will find it and other times you won’t find it and the times you don’t find it are t… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Clocks and watches he ficed with marvelous delicacy and precision, but he paid no attention to them; he had grown as obliviously accustomed to their many small noises as someone grows to the sound of…"

-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

"A single watch or clock can be a powerful influence on a man, but when a man lives among as many watches and clocks as crowded the tiny, dim shop of Mr Gonzales, some lagging behind, some skipping ah…"

-Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

28. An Injustice Revealed

By: Anonymous

3.33

Format: None pages, None

“An Injustice Revealed” by Anonymous is a short story from 6th century China. read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Little Place off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene

29. A Little Place off the Edgware Road

By: Graham Greene

3.28

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

30. Climax for a ghost story

By: I.A. Ireland

3.60

Format: None pages, None

I. A. Ireland, English savant born in Hanley in 1871. He claimed descent from the infamous impostor… read more

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  • classics
  • humor
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

31. Insomnia

By: Virgilio Piñera

2.28

Format: None pages, None

Virgilio Piñera era un escrito cubano. En el Insomnio es uno de sus mini cuentos. Relata la histori… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

24 must-read fiction books like Climax for a ghost story by I.A. Ireland

Transform Your Habits

The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Casa tomada [Cuento]

Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Araby

James Joyce

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Barbie-Q

Sandra Cisneros

4.31

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10 Best horror books like The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Transform Your Habits

Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

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The Voice in the Night

William Hope Hodgson

3.47

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