7 must-read mystery books like The Tractate Middoth by M.R. James

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The Tractate Middoth

By: M.R. James

3.59

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

A librarian encounters the cobweb-covered ghost of a man entombed with his books.

If you liked the mystery plot in The Tractate Middoth by M.R. James , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Cold Embrace

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.56

Format: 96 pages, Audiobook

After a German artist's cool betrayal, his fiancee's retribution is eerily apt. read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
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2. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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3. Honeysuckle Cottage

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Hardboiled crime writer James Rodman assumes his luck is in when he inherits Honeysuckle Cottage. B… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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4. In The Dark

By: E. Nesbit

3.95

Format: 302 pages,

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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5. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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6. The Voice in the Night

By: William Hope Hodgson

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Audiobook

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consistin… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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7. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
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8. The Horror of the Heights

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

5.00

Format: None pages, ebook

"The Horror of the Heights" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Stran… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy

9. Good Lady Ducayne

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.71

Format: None pages,

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery

10. Who Knows?

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.88

Format: 440 pages,

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook

11. The Red Room

By: H.G. Wells

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"It's your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm once more. I heard the faint sound of … read more

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12. The Wendigo

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-know… read more

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13. The Red Lodge

By: H. Russell Wakefield

4.27

Format: 197 pages, ebook

H. R. Wakefield was one of the most popular ghost-story writers of the early 20th century. 'The Red… read more

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14. The Judge's House

By: Bram Stoker

3.00

Format: None pages,

A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds th… read more

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15. The Crown Derby Plate: A Ghost Story for Christmas

By: Marjorie Bowen , Seth

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete… read more

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16. The Triumph of Night

By: Edith Wharton

3.60

Format: None pages,

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17. 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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  • gothic
  • 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

18. 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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19. Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

What had become of him? And what lad was that going up the path by which I had just come-that tall … read more

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  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • ghost stories
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20. Thurnley Abbey

By: Perceval Landon

3.68

Format: 12 pages, ebook

The classic 1908 ghost story by Perceval Landon, originally featured in his book, Raw Edges: Studie… read more

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  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
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21. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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22. The Wood of the Dead

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.68

Format: 16 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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23. The House with the Brick-Kiln

By: E.F. Benson

3.49

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The House with the Brick-Kiln By E. F. Benson Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, obl… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
  • audiobook
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24. The Tractate Middoth

By: M.R. James

3.59

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

A librarian encounters the cobweb-covered ghost of a man entombed with his books. read more

Similar categories in M.R. James's The Tractate Middoth book and M.R. James's The Tractate Middoth

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • ghost stories
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25. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • audiobook

26. The Telephone

By: Mary Treadgold

2.86

Format: 7 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • horror

27. Mr. Mortimer's Diary

By: Amyas Northcote

3.75

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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28. In the Tube

By: E.F. Benson

3.51

Format: 14 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
  • audiobook
"If you come to think of it, the one thing which the human mind cannot grasp is the finite, not the infinite, the temporary, not the eternal."

-E.F. Benson, In the Tube

29. The Shadow

By: E. Nesbit

3.49

Format: None pages, None

“The Shadow” is a ghost story told in an unusual style: a ghost story that was actually not at all … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook

30. The Mistress in Black

By: Rosemary Timperley

3.95

Format: None pages, None

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31. The Quincunx

By: Walter de la Mare

4.07

Format: None pages, None

First published in Lady's Realm, December 1906. Revised when collected in A Beginning and Other… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories

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