The American's Tale
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
2.88
Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition
The American's Tale is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in t…
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. The Quest of Iranon
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.48
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
"The Quest of Iranon" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on February 28, 1921, and… read more
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"Wherefore do ye toil; is it not that ye may live and be happy? And if ye toil only that ye may toil more, when shall happiness find you? Ye toil to live, but is not life made of beauty and song? And …"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Quest of Iranon
3. The Nameless City
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.62
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first publishe… read more
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"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
"But as always in my strange and roving existence, wonder soon drove out fear; for the luminous abyss and what it might contain presented a problem worthy of the greatest explorer."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
"When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corps…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
4. The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics)
By: Laird Barron , Ray Russell
3.69
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Teenager Susan Garth was “a clean-talking sweet little girl” of high school age before she started … read more
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"A great boob he is to pit himself against a holy Father and a bishop of the Church, with the very House of God next door. The nerve of him!"-Laird Barron, The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics)
5. Hypnos
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.42
Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition
interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. One man with Oriental eyes has said that all time an… read more
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"Los sabios interpretan los sueños, y los dioses se ríen."-H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnos
"Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed."-H.P. Lovecraft, Hypnos
6. The Beast in the Cave
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.43
Format: 11 pages, Kindle Edition
a selection from the beginning of the story: The horrible conclusion which had been gradually intru… read more
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- short stories
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7. The Picture in the House
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.50
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
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8. Old Bugs
By: H.P. Lovecraft
2.82
Format: None pages, Nook
With the onset of Prohibition, the Sheehan Billiard Room in Chicago became a sordid haunt for hard … read more
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"I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same."-H.P. Lovecraft, Old Bugs
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10. Berenice
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.00
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Bereniceis a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The tale is centered on the death of a young gi… read more
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11. The Other Gods
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.66
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the gods of earth attempts to scale the mo… read more
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- fiction
12. The Terrible Old Man
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first … read more
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13. The Strange Orchid
By: H.G. Wells
2.50
Format: 216 pages,
An orchid collector purchases some new bulbs for his collection. The bulbs are from a remote area o… read more
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14. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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15. The Colour Out of Space
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.03
Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more
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- fiction
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
16. The Voice in the Night
By: William Hope Hodgson
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Audiobook
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consistin… read more
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17. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
18. Logan's Run (Logan, #1)
By: William F. Nolan , George Clayton Johnson
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born an… read more
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19. The Outsider
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.10
Format: 290 pages,
"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more
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20. The Temple
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.80
Format: 8 pages,
"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp m… read more
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22. Nyarlathotep
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Chuck BB
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Presents horror legend HP Lovecraft's short prose piece Nyarlathotep. This book presents Lovecraft'… read more
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24. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner
3.89
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more
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"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
25. The Ash-Tree
By: M.R. James
3.94
Format: 229 pages, ebook
Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. … read more
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26. Rappaccini's Daughter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.01
Format: 532 pages,
Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is an inspired tale of creation … read more
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27. How Fear Departed the Long Gallery: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories)
By: E.F. Benson
4.02
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
An classic ghost story by E.F. Benson is revived in this illustrated Christmas edition by inimitabl… read more
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28. 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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"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)
29. The Giant Wistaria
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3.52
Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (3 July 1860 – 17 August 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novel… read more
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30. The Thing in the Cellar
By: David H. Keller
3.72
Format: 32 pages, paperback
• The Thing in the Cellar • (1932) • shortstory by David H. Keller, M.D. • The Psychology of Fear… read more
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31. The American's Tale
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
2.88
Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition
The American's Tale is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in t… read more
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