7 must-read fiction books like Irish Ghost Stories by Padraic O'Farrell

Cover of Irish Ghost Stories by Padraic O'Farrell

Irish Ghost Stories

By: Padraic O'Farrell

3.27

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Unexplained psychic phenomena fascinate people from all walks of life. However, many are afraid, as…

If you liked the fiction plot in Irish Ghost Stories by Padraic O'Farrell , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore

1. 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 Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories

  • short stories
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • 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

2. Lucky Man

By: Michael J. Fox

4.25

Format: 512 pages,

In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkin… read more

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3. Hocus Pocus: (The Original & The Sequel): 25th Anniversary Edition

By: None , None

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

When eighteen-year-old Poppy, the daughter of Max and Allison, finds herself face-to-face with the … read more

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Cover of From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

4. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more

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"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Cover of The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

5. The Devil and the Dark Water

By: Stuart Turton

3.84

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and Samu… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Turton's The Devil and the Dark Water book and Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories

  • fiction
"Anger makes good men stubborn and stubborn men petty."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"You’re as dense as the mountains you were carved out of."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"Courage isn't an absence of fear, it's the light we find when fear is all there is."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"Marriage is an inconvenient convenience. It’s the shackle we accept for our safety."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

Cover of The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor

6. The Girl Who Came Home

By: Hazel Gaynor

3.92

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . . Irela… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Gaynor's The Girl Who Came Home book and Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories

  • ireland
  • fiction
"Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn't care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy and…"

-Hazel Gaynor, The Girl Who Came Home

Cover of Three Assassins by Kōtarō Isaka

7. Three Assassins

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

By the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train, the high-octane new thriller, set in Tok… read more

Similar categories in Kōtarō Isaka's Three Assassins book and Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories

  • fiction
"All the knowledge and science that human beings have, it only helps humans. Get it? No living thing in the world besides humans is happy that humans exist."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

Cover of Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

8. Night Boat to Tangier

By: Kevin Barry

3.62

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's Night Boat to Tangier book and Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories

  • ireland
  • fiction
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

Cover of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk

9. The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

By: Sean Lusk

3.90

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing... Leadenhall… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered by Amber  Hunt

10. Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered

By: Amber Hunt

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Explore the mysteries of 20 compelling unsolved murder cases, from the Zodiac Killer to the death o… read more

Similar categories in Amber Hunt's Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered book and Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories

  • horror
Cover of Irish Ghost Stories by Padraic O'Farrell

11. Irish Ghost Stories

By: Padraic O'Farrell

3.27

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Unexplained psychic phenomena fascinate people from all walks of life. However, many are afraid, as… read more

Similar categories in Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories book and Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ireland
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
Cover of The Turning of the Year: Lore and Legends of the Irish Seasons by Eithne Massey

12. The Turning of the Year: Lore and Legends of the Irish Seasons

By: Eithne Massey

3.89

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the hugely successful book Legendary Ireland, The Turning of the Year explores t… read more

Similar categories in Eithne Massey's The Turning of the Year: Lore and Legends of the Irish Seasons book and Padraic O'Farrell's Irish Ghost Stories

  • ireland

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