13 must-read audiobook books like A Strange Christmas Game by J.H. Riddell

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A Strange Christmas Game

By: J.H. Riddell

2.91

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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Cover of The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

1. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 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

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2. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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3. The Empty House

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.85

Format: 249 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more

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

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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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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6. The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

By: Charles Dickens

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Goblins kidnap a surly grave-digger to teach him some valuable lessons. read more

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  • christmas
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by M.R. James

7. Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

By: M.R. James

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Professor Parkins finds an old whistle, his stay at Globe Inn takes a turn for the eerie. read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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8. The Terrible Old Man

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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9. 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
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10. 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

11. La casa y el cerebro

By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

13. Couching at the Door

By: David Stuart Davies , D.K. Broster

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Dorothy Kathleen Broster is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her… read more

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14. La música de Erich Zann

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: 16 pages, ebook

"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December … read more

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15. 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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16. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 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

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17. A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled wit… read more

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  • christmas
  • fiction
"Hallo, my fine fellow!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"God bless us, every one!"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"And how did little Tim behave?"

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"Marley was dead: to begin with."

-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

18. 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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19. 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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20. 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
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Captain of the Pole-Star by Arthur Conan Doyle

21. The Captain of the Pole-Star

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.58

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of detective Sherlock Holmes, is the father of crime fiction. H… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Corner Shop: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Cynthia Asquith

22. The Corner Shop: A Ghost Story for Christmas

By: Cynthia Asquith

3.73

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. Peter Wood enters a … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Lost Room by Fitz-James O'Brien

23. The Lost Room

By: Fitz-James O'Brien

3.17

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Fitz James O'Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; 25 October 1826 – 6 April 1862) was an Irish American … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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24. The Snow

By: Hugh Walpole

3.68

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A famous short story read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Between the Lights by E.F. Benson

25. Between the Lights

By: E.F. Benson

2.83

Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition

Between the Lights is a short horror story published in 1912. Between the Lights is a part of a sho… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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26. Ghost Stories 2

By: M.R. James

3.62

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

This is the second collection of chilling ghost stories by M. R. James."A Warning to the Curious" f… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
Cover of A Strange Christmas Game by J.H. Riddell

27. A Strange Christmas Game

By: J.H. Riddell

2.91

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • christmas
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
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28. Number Ninety

By: B.M. Croker

3.71

Format: None pages, None

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

29. A Wicked Voice

By: Vernon Lee

3.20

Format: None pages, None

Vernon Lee –cuyo verdadero nombre era Violet Paget– sorprendió al mundo al publicar a los veinticua… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

30. The Tapping on the Wainscot

By: Allen Upward

3.88

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

None read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror

31. The Story Of The Green House, Wallington

By: Allen Upward

3.94

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

None read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • horror

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Willa Cather

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