A Watcher by the Dead
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.22
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A dare and a wager to spend the night locked up in a room with a corpse: What could go wrong? Be pr…
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1. The Nameless City
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.62
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first publishe… read more
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"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
"But as always in my strange and roving existence, wonder soon drove out fear; for the luminous abyss and what it might contain presented a problem worthy of the greatest explorer."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
"When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corps…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
2. Dickon the Devil
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
2.94
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1872. Born in Dublin in 1814, he ca… read more
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3. The Open Window (Simplified for Modern Readers Series)
By: Saki , George Lakon
3.77
Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition
"The Open Window" is the Saki (H. H. Munro) classic short story that continues to fascinate readers… read more
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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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"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
5. They
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.56
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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"One view called me to another; one hill top to its fellow, half across the country, and since I could answer at no more trouble than the snapping forward of a lever, I let the country flow under my w…"-Rudyard Kipling, They
6. 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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"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
7. The Oval Portrait
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.94
Format: None pages,
In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more
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- short stories
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8. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- classics
9. 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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- classics
- short stories
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10. The Body Snatcher
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more
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11. 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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12. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
13. 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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14. Morella
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.55
Format: 160 pages,
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15. The Los Amigos Fiasco
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.61
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer … read more
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16. Ligeia
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.51
Format: 235 pages,
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more
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17. The Adventure of the German Student
By: Washington Irving
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. 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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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. Feathertop
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Audiobook
Feathertop is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19,… read more
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21. 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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"[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
22. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
23. Nyarlathotep
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Chuck BB
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Presents horror legend HP Lovecraft's short prose piece Nyarlathotep. This book presents Lovecraft'… read more
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24. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more
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25. 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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26. 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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"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
27. The New Catacomb
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.78
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The New Catacomb is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the famous detective Sher… read more
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28. The Bus Conductor
By: E.F. Benson
3.34
Format: None pages, None
The Bus-Conductor is a short horror story published in december of 1906 by Pall Mall Magazine. The … read more
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29. Gothic Tales
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.97
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writi… read more
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30. A Watcher by the Dead
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.22
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A dare and a wager to spend the night locked up in a room with a corpse: What could go wrong? Be pr… read more
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31. The Brown Hand
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.49
Format: None pages, None
Every one knows that Sir Dominick Holden, the famous Indian surgeon, made me his heir, and that his… read more
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