10 Top classics books like The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams

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The Thing in the Woods

By: Harper Williams

3.20

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In a 1924 letter, Lovecraft recounts a book-buying spree from which his buddy Frank Belknap Long br…

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Cover of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

1. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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2. Small Sacrifices

By: Ann Rule

4.25

Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beauti… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Ear in the Wall by Arthur B. Reeve

3. The Ear in the Wall

By: Arthur B. Reeve

4.17

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by Jonathan Lethem, G.K. Chesterton

4. 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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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

6. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By: Harlan Ellison

5.00

Format: 398 pages, ebook

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3) by Dorothy L. Sayers

7. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.07

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

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8. The Invisible Man

By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

Cover of Wastelands II: More Stories of the Apocalypse by George R.R. Martin, John Joseph Adams, Orson Scott Card, Christie Yant, Seanan McGuire, Robert Silverberg, David Brin, Hugh Howey, Lauren Beukes, Rachel Swirsky, Jake Kerr, Genevieve Valentine, Megan Arkenberg, None, Nancy Kress, Maria Dahvana Headley, Joe R. Lansdale, Milo James Fowler, Junot Díaz, Tananarive Due, Cory Doctorow, James Van Pelt, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jack McDevitt, Christopher Barzak, Mira Grant, Ann Aguirre, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, None, D. Thomas Minton, Ramsey Shehadeh

9. Wastelands II: More Stories of the Apocalypse

By: George R.R. Martin , John Joseph Adams , Orson Scott Card , Christie Yant , Seanan McGuire , Robert Silverberg , David Brin , Hugh Howey , Lauren Beukes , Rachel Swirsky , Jake Kerr , Genevieve Valentine , Megan Arkenberg , None , Nancy Kress , Maria Dahvana Headley , Joe R. Lansdale , Milo James Fowler , Junot Díaz , Tananarive Due , Cory Doctorow , James Van Pelt , Bruce Sterling , Rudy Rucker , Paolo Bacigalupi , Jack McDevitt , Christopher Barzak , Mira Grant , Ann Aguirre , Keffy R.M. Kehrli , None , D. Thomas Minton , Ramsey Shehadeh

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams, WASTELANDS 2: MORE STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE is … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

10. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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11. Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale

By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Zanoni, first published in 1842, was inspired by a dream. Sir Edward, a Rosicrucian, wrote this eng… read more

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12. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

13. A Silent Witness

By: R. Austin Freeman

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a wet and windy silent night in the sleeping city of London, the body of a man is found sprawled… read more

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14. Black Magic

By: Marjorie Bowen

4.36

Format: 232 pages,

A Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist. read more

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15. Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.16

Format: 320 pages,

In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger … read more

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16. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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17. The Uttermost Farthing

By: R. Austin Freeman

4.25

Format: None pages,

Humphrey Challoner was a great savant spoiled by untimely wealth. When I knew him he had lapsed int… read more

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Cover of The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy

18. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams

19. The Thing in the Woods

By: Harper Williams

3.20

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In a 1924 letter, Lovecraft recounts a book-buying spree from which his buddy Frank Belknap Long br… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Studies of Death by Count Stenbock

20. Studies of Death

By: Count Stenbock

3.92

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

First printing of this edition, a reprint of the very rare 1894 first edition issued by David Nutt.… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of War in Heaven by Charles  Williams

21. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

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Horace Walpole

3.18

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Arthur B. Reeve

4.17

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

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Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

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The Sketch Book

Washington Irving

3.66

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Erec and Enide

Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.62

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

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George MacDonald

3.48

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