6 must-read short stories books like Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (Tales of the Weird) by Manon Burz-Labrande

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Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (Tales of the Weird)

By: Manon Burz-Labrande

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

From the ringing of a disconnected bell to footsteps in the halls of an abandoned house and the whi…

If you liked the short stories plot in Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (Tales of the Weird) by Manon Burz-Labrande , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Journey's End

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.86

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editi… read more

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  • fiction
"You must always think of it like that if you can. Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps."

-R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End

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2. Hag-Seed

By: Margaret Atwood

3.80

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assist… read more

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  • fiction
"La grandeza está en la virtud, no en la venganza"

-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

"Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare."

-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

"But once you’ve climbed a ladder, what use is it? You kick it away, if you don’t intend to go down it again."

-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

"You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke," Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham."

-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

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3. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) by Ngaio Marsh

4. Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.82

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued - the second Roderick Alleyn Mystery. The crime scene was the … read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Circular Staircase

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the ci… read more

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  • fiction
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6. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Time Traders (Time Traders/ Ross Murdock, #1) by Andre Norton, Mark    Nelson

7. The Time Traders (Time Traders/ Ross Murdock, #1)

By: Andre Norton , Mark Nelson

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Audiobook

DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIMEIntelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Crimson Snowbrings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Fath… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

9. The Shadows on The Wall

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

10. Complete Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

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11. The Busy Body

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Previously published in paperback by Ballantine. read more

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12. Capital Crimes: London Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

With its fascinating mix of people - rich and poor, British and foreign, worthy and suspicious - Lo… read more

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13. Portrait of a Murderer

By: None

2.56

Format: 201 pages,

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14. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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15. Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8)

By: Carol Carnac

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An atmospheric holiday novel from one of the most consistently popular authors in the series, Carol… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Smallbone Deceased

By: Michael Gilbert

4.05

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly re… read more

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  • fiction
"It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapte…"

-Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased

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17. Glory

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

3.70

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more

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  • fiction
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

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18. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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19. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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20. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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21. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

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22. The Witch and the Tsar

By: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

3.56

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut novel, the maligned and immortal witch of legend known as Baba Yaga will ris… read more

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  • fiction
"Once war is on men's minds, it festers within, claiming them."

-Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar

"Whoever came ... did so when their prayers had gone unanswered, when the mortal healers had thrown up their hands. They came in the depths of their despair."

-Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar

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23. The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories

By: Martin Edwards

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is pla… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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24. The Wild Silence

By: Raynor Winn

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more

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"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

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25. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1) by Alex Pheby

26. Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

By: Alex Pheby

3.60

Format: 617 pages, Hardcover

GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. S…"

-Alex Pheby, Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

Cover of You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

27. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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  • fiction
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28. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

By: Nick Hayes

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more

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29. Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (Tales of the Weird)

By: Manon Burz-Labrande

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

From the ringing of a disconnected bell to footsteps in the halls of an abandoned house and the whi… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography by R.B. Russell

30. Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography

By: R.B. Russell

4.45

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Robert Aickman (1914-1981) is remembered today as the author of fascinating ‘strange stories’, and … read more

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31. The Living Stone: Stories of Uncanny Sculpture, 1858-1943 (Handheld Weirds, 9)

By: Henry Bartholomew

4.60

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The Living Stone is a fearful anthology of seventeen classic supernatural short stories, persuading… read more

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  • horror

20 Best fiction books like Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (Tales of the Weird) by Manon Burz-Labrande

Transform Your Habits

Journey's End

R.C. Sherriff

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

Ngaio Marsh

3.82

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24 best-selling fiction books like The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories by Martin Edwards

Transform Your Habits

Mystery in White

Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.38

Transform Your Habits

The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories

None , P.D. James

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

Ngaio Marsh

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

Carter Dickson

3.66

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