21 Top horror books like The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood

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The Shadow of a Shade

By: Tom Hood

3.79

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Many of the earliest ghost stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now…

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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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  • 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

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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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  • short stories
  • horror
"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. Lost Hearts

By: M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

Format: 332 pages, ebook

The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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4. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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5. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

By: Henry James

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
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6. Gothic Tales

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Laura Kranzler

3.81

Format: 4 pages,

'Such whispered tales, such old temptations and hauntings, and devilish terrors' Elizabeth Gaskell'… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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8. Mort (Death, #1; Discworld, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, whe… read more

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9. A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

By: Agatha Christie

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a finan… read more

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10. The White People

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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11. To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt

By: Charles Dickens

4.42

Format: 216 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
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12. The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more

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  • horror

13. Count Magnus

By: M.R. James

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • horror
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

15. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more

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16. No Living Voice

By: None

4.00

Format: 268 pages, ebook

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17. The Stranger's Latchkey

By: R. Austin Freeman

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Audiobook

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18. El vampiro. La familia del vurdalak

By: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

La corriente literaria que arranca del romanticismo y que hizo del vampiro una figura cuya populari… read more

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19. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more

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20. Dark Tales

By: Shirley Jackson

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the q… read more

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21. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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22. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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23. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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24. Reality or Delusion?

By: Mrs. Henry Wood

3.11

Format: 14 pages, ebook

from "Johnny Ludlow" first series read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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25. Uncle Cornelius, His Story

By: George MacDonald

3.23

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

""Uncle Cornelius, His Story"" is a novel by renowned Scottish author George MacDonald. The book fo… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

26. The Story of Clifford House

By: Anonymous

3.57

Format: None pages, None

an excerpt from the beginning of the story: This story I will tell to you now, as I have promised t… read more

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  • horror
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27. The Shadow of a Shade

By: Tom Hood

3.79

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Many of the earliest ghost stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now… read more

Similar categories in Tom Hood's The Shadow of a Shade book and Tom Hood's The Shadow of a Shade

  • short stories
  • horror
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28. The Last House in C-- Street

By: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

3.34

Format: 13 pages, Kindle Edition

I am not a believer in ghosts in general; I see no good in them. They come--that is, are reported t… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

29. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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30. The Botathen Ghost

By: Robert Stephen Hawker

2.71

Format: 7 pages, ebook

None read more

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  • horror
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31. Grotesquerie

By: Harold Lawlor

3.57

Format: 12 pages, None

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The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

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Lost Hearts

M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

Transform Your Habits

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Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

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The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

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Mark Twain

3.75

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Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

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