The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
By: Michael Cox
3.97
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
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1. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
By: Mary Wollstonecraft
3.44
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
In Maria , Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Right… read more
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- fiction
"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
"She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep."-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
"Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women."-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
"...or like the flash which divides the threatening clouds of angry heaven only to display the horror which darkness shrouded"-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
2. Collected Ghost Stories
By: M.R. James
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more
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- ghosts
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- paranormal
- ghost stories
"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
3. Chosen (House of Night, #3)
By: P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast
3.91
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a my… read more
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- paranormal
- fiction
"Our Z's been fucking Loren Blake."-P.C. Cast, Chosen (House of Night, #3)
"...Neferet fell smack on her butt."-P.C. Cast, Chosen (House of Night, #3)
"I don’t like the way he looks at you."-P.C. Cast, Chosen (House of Night, #3)
"You're a goddess among those who think themselves demigods."-P.C. Cast, Chosen (House of Night, #3)
4. Collected Poems of Robert Burns
By: Robert Burns
4.12
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, … read more
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- fiction
"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."-Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns
"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley."-Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns
"We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free."-Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns
"But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God."-Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns
5. Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)
By: Christianna Brand
3.56
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In the height of an English summer, Grandfather is found dead in the little Grecian lodge among the… read more
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- fiction
6. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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- fiction
7. Come Closer
By: Sara Gran
3.65
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more
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- paranormal
- fiction
- horror
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
8. Columbine
By: Dave Cullen
4.29
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more
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"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
9. The Beautiful and Damned
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damnedfollowed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This S… read more
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- fiction
10. Burned (House of Night, #7)
By: P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast
3.97
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
The next exciting instalment in the adventures of Zoey Redbird at the House of Night school for vam… read more
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- paranormal
- fiction
"I am not a bat. ~Rephaim"-P.C. Cast, Burned (House of Night, #7)
"Surrender is a powerful force."-P.C. Cast, Burned (House of Night, #7)
"There's some shit you just can't control."-P.C. Cast, Burned (House of Night, #7)
"Been dead, done that got a fricken t-shirt"-P.C. Cast, Burned (House of Night, #7)
11. Fingersmith
By: Sarah Waters
4.02
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raise… read more
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- fiction
"You pearl!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"PIGEON MY ARSE!"-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"It's a curious, wanting thing."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
"She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you."-Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
12. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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13. Native Son
By: Richard Wright
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more
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14. Untamed (House of Night, #4)
By: P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Zoey Redbird's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties a… read more
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- paranormal
- fiction
"Nuns freak me out."-P.C. Cast, Untamed (House of Night, #4)
"Die Dorkamese Twins."-P.C. Cast, Untamed (House of Night, #4)
"You'll see. She can be nice sometimes."-P.C. Cast, Untamed (House of Night, #4)
"Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean."-P.C. Cast, Untamed (House of Night, #4)
15. The Queen of Spades
By: Alexander Pushkin , None
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more
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16. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
17. Boys in the Valley
By: Philip Fracassi
4.18
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more
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- paranormal
- fiction
- horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
18. A Grief Observed
By: C.S. Lewis
4.22
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more
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"Time itself is one more name for death."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
19. Little Eve
By: Catriona Ward
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."-Catriona Ward, Little Eve
"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."-Catriona Ward, Little Eve
20. Looking Glass Sound
By: Catriona Ward
3.49
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound
21. The Spite House
By: Johnny Compton
3.53
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more
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- horror
- paranormal
- fiction
- ghosts
22. Sorrowland
By: Rivers Solomon
3.83
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
23. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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- fiction
- horror
24. Once Upon a River
By: Diane Setterfield
3.95
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes pla… read more
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- fiction
"There must be more to stories than you think."-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
"A curtain was drawn back in every man's inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work."-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
"They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding."-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
"A child is not an empty vessel.... to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on the…"-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
25. Sleepwalk
By: Dan Chaon
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more
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- fiction
"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk
"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk
26. Daphne
By: Josh Malerman
3.40
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more
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- horror
- paranormal
- fiction
- ghosts
27. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories
By: Andrew Cull
3.95
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- paranormal
28. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories
By: Eric LaRocca
3.74
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- horror
29. The Gifts
By: Liz Hyder
3.72
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A… read more
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- fiction
30. The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
By: Michael Cox
3.97
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
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- anthologies
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