16 must-read short stories books like Sawney Beane: The Man Eater by Charles Whitehead

Sawney Beane: The Man Eater

By: Charles Whitehead

3.17

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

First appeared in Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers and Murderers, of All Na…

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1. The Premature Burial

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

Format: 32 pages,

The Premature Burial is a horror classic written by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a horror short story o… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

"I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, bad caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind; and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay; so that I co…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

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2. Pet Sematary

By: Stephen King

4.07

Format: 580 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old… read more

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  • horror
"Sometimes dead is better"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"Well, cats live as long as dogs,"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"A man who lies about beer makes enemies"

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

"The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch."

-Stephen King, Pet Sematary

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3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.22

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more

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"Your relationship to mortality is your own."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

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4. The Case of Lady Sannox

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.46

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The famed surgeon Douglas Stone flaunts his notorious affair with Lady Sannox, although his profess… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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5. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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6. Rosemary's Baby

By: Ira Levin

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more

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  • classics
  • horror
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7. Wake Not the Dead

By: Ludwig Tieck

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who wa… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn Peake, Vladimir Nabokov, Dan Chaon

8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleas… read more

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  • classics
  • horror
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9. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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10. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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11. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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12. The Diary of a Madman

By: Guy de Maupassant

4.60

Format: None pages,

AKA "The Madman" read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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13. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • 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

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14. The Dream Woman: A Mystery in Four Narratives

By: Wilkie Collins

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

15. The Adventure of the German Student

By: Washington Irving

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

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16. George Dobson's Expedition to Hell

By: James Hogg

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

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17. Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse

By: Louisa May Alcott

0.00

Format: 152 pages, ebook

This wonderful story starts with curiosity, fun and discovery, and ends with madness and death. Two… read more

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18. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

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  • classics
  • horror
"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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19. A Certain Hunger

By: Chelsea G. Summers

3.77

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Doro… read more

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  • horror
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I enjoy a man who’s kissed with a yeasty beastliness."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I knew from a young age that motherhood was a cage I never wanted to inhabit."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

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20. The Honeys

By: Ryan La Sala

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror nov… read more

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  • horror
"I will be a ruin to consume."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Contentedness is a party I leave early every time."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Is everything an act to you?" "Everything is an act to everybody."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"We came as one and left as many. We came with nothing and left with everything."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

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21. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.13

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortic… read more

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"That's why all the questions in this book come from 100 percent ethically sourced, free-range, organic children."

-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

"It’s normal to be curious about death. But as people grow up, they internalize this idea that wondering about death is “morbid"

-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

"Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it."

-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

"I'm bringing body back. Returning corpses, but they're not intact. Kids, this is a Justin Timberlake reference. You're fine not knowing who that is."

-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies

22. Aurelia

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

3.26

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • horror
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23. A Night in the Grave - Or, the Devil's Receipt

By: Walter Scott

2.58

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Many of the earliest stories of witchcraft and black magic, particularly those dating back to the 1… read more

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  • short stories

24. Sawney Beane: The Man Eater

By: Charles Whitehead

3.17

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

First appeared in Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers and Murderers, of All Na… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

25. The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin

By: Richard Thomson

2.88

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Welcome to Penny Dreadfuls, an anthology of twenty "sensation stories" all first published in the n… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

26. The Buried Alive

By: John Galt

3.35

Format: None pages, None

First published in Blackwood's, October 1821 by Anon. read more

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  • short stories

27. In Kropfsberg Keep

By: Ralph Adams Cram

3.65

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Welcome to Penny Dreadfuls, an anthology of twenty "sensation stories" all first published in the n… read more

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15 Best classics books like Sawney Beane: The Man Eater by Charles Whitehead

Transform Your Habits

The Premature Burial

Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Case of Lady Sannox

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.46

Transform Your Habits

The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Transform Your Habits

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

3.56

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Transform Your Habits

The Premature Burial

Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Beast in the Cave

H.P. Lovecraft

3.43

Transform Your Habits

The Picture in the House

H.P. Lovecraft

3.50

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H.P. Lovecraft

2.82

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