8 must-read audiobook books like The Shadow in the Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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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,…

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Cover of The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque by Walter Scott

1. The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque

By: Walter Scott

3.08

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

When General Browne's friend invites him to spend the week at his home, he's delighted to oblige—th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"About the end of the American war, when the officers of Lord Cornwallis’s army which surrendered at Yorktown, and others, who had been made prisoners during the impolitic and ill-fated controversy we…"

-Walter Scott, The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque

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2. 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
  • victorian
  • short stories
  • 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

Cover of The Quest of Iranon by H.P. Lovecraft

3. The Quest of Iranon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.48

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

"The Quest of Iranon" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on February 28, 1921, and… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Wherefore do ye toil; is it not that ye may live and be happy? And if ye toil only that ye may toil more, when shall happiness find you? Ye toil to live, but is not life made of beauty and song? And …"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Quest of Iranon

Cover of The Haunted House by Charles Dickens, Wesley Stace

4. The Haunted House

By: Charles Dickens , Wesley Stace

3.08

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Compiled by Charles Dickens, and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contribu… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Evil communications corrupt good manners."

-Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

"And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to m…"

-Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

Cover of The Signalman by Charles Dickens, Scott Cohn

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
  • horror
  • audiobook
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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6. Casting the Runes

By: M.R. James

4.29

Format: None pages,

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  • supernatural
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Room in the Tower by E.F. Benson

8. 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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  • supernatural
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

9. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.83

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral by M.R. James

10. The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

By: M.R. James

3.65

Format: None pages, ebook

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  • supernatural
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

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 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"[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

13. 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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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 Triumph of Night

By: Edith Wharton

3.60

Format: None pages,

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16. A Warning to the Curious

By: M.R. James

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently … read more

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17. 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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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories by Amelia B. Edwards

18. 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
  • victorian
  • short stories
  • 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

Cover of Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

19. 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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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of John Charrington’s Wedding by E. Nesbit

20. John Charrington’s Wedding

By: E. Nesbit

3.67

Format: 11 pages, Kindle Edition

"John Charrington's Wedding" is a short ghost story by the British author Edith Nesbit. It was writ… read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of A Neighbour's Landmark by M.R. James

21. A Neighbour's Landmark

By: M.R. James

3.24

Format: None pages, ebook

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not p… read more

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  • supernatural
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Playmates by A.M. Burrage

22. Playmates

By: A.M. Burrage

4.13

Format: 24 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Tractate Middoth by M.R. James

23. 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

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shadow in the Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

24. 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

Similar categories in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Shadow in the Corner book and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Shadow in the Corner

  • classics
  • ghosts
  • victorian
  • short stories
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • audiobook

25. The Telephone

By: Mary Treadgold

2.86

Format: 7 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • horror

26. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

By: Rhoda Broughton

3.28

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

27. In the Tube

By: E.F. Benson

3.51

Format: 14 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"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

28. "Where angels fear-"

By: Manly Wade Wellman

3.67

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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  • horror
Cover of The Quincunx by Walter de la Mare

29. 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
Cover of The Triumph of Night by Edith Wharton

30. The Triumph of Night

By: Edith Wharton

3.57

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in yellow wibalin cloth st… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics

31. Scoured Silk

By: Marjorie Bowen

3.91

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories

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Transform Your Habits

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Walter Scott

3.08

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Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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H.P. Lovecraft

3.48

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Charles Dickens , Wesley Stace

3.08

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Henry James

3.13

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3.48

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