14 Best gothic books like The Last House in C-- Street by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Cover of The Last House in C-- Street by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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…

If you liked the gothic plot in The Last House in C-- Street by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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
  • 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

Cover of Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Daniel Defoe, Gerald McCann

2. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

Cover of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore

3. 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

Similar categories in Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • 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

Cover of Lost Hearts by M.R. James, Danko Krilić

4. 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

Similar categories in M.R. James's Lost Hearts book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
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5. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Cover of The Signalman by Charles Dickens, Scott Cohn

6. 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

Similar categories in Charles Dickens's The Signalman book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

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

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

Cover of Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14) by Agatha Christie

7. Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Nurse Amy Leatheran had a most unusual patient. Louise, according to her husband, celebrated archae… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14) book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • audiobook
Cover of The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James

8. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

By: Henry James

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
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9. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Cover of The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

10. 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

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

11. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

Similar categories in Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • short stories
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

Cover of An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

12. 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

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt by Charles Dickens

13. To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt

By: Charles Dickens

4.42

Format: 216 pages,

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Similar categories in Charles Dickens's To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • short stories
  • horror
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14. Christabel

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4.37

Format: 224 pages,

Christabel is a long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The story of Christab… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Christabel book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • horror
Cover of Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2) by Ransom Riggs

15. Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

By: Ransom Riggs

4.06

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can h… read more

Similar categories in Ransom Riggs's Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2) book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • horror
"Everything happens for a reason."

-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

"At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery."

-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

"I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch"

-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

"Ardet nec consumitur," Melina said. "Burned but not destroyed."

-Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)

16. The Lady's Maid's Bell

By: Edith Wharton

4.32

Format: 318 pages,

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17. 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

Similar categories in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • 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

18. 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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19. No Living Voice

By: None

4.00

Format: 268 pages, ebook

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20. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • horror
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

Cover of The Price of Salt, or Carol by Patricia Highsmith, Claire  Morgan

21. The Price of Salt, or Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan

4.02

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, or Carol book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • audiobook
"She hated cleaning up after making something."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

Cover of Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story by Amelia B. Edwards

22. 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

Similar categories in Amelia B. Edwards's Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Story Of Salome by Amelia B. Edwards

23. The Story Of Salome

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.36

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Story of Salome is a historical novel written by Amelia B. Edwards. The book is set in the anci… read more

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  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Brontë

24. Napoleon and the Spectre

By: Charlotte Brontë

2.63

Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was a British novelist, the eldest of the three fa… read more

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  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Reality or Delusion? by Mrs. Henry Wood

25. 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
Cover of Uncle Cornelius, His Story by George MacDonald

26. 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

Similar categories in George MacDonald's Uncle Cornelius, His Story book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood

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 Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Last House in C-- Street by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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

Similar categories in Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street book and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's The Last House in C-- Street

  • gothic
  • audiobook
  • 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
Cover of The Botathen Ghost by Robert Stephen Hawker

30. The Botathen Ghost

By: Robert Stephen Hawker

2.71

Format: 7 pages, ebook

None read more

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  • horror
Cover of L'avventura di Winthrop by Vernon Lee

31. L'avventura di Winthrop

By: Vernon Lee

3.68

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

In atmosfere sature di inquietudine, una storia di fantasmi evoca personaggi eccentrici, con un gus… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Lost Hearts

M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

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The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)

Agatha Christie

3.98

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Transform Your Habits

The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Lost Hearts

M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

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The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

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