22 must-read horror books like The Sweeper by A.M. Burrage

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The Sweeper

By: A.M. Burrage

3.59

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

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If you liked the horror plot in The Sweeper by A.M. Burrage , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Wharton, E.F. Benson, Roald Dahl, Robert Aickman, None, Richard Barham Middleton, Rosemary Timperley, L.P. Hartley, Cynthia Asquith, F. Marion Crawford, Mary Treadgold, Jonas Lie

1. Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Edith Wharton , E.F. Benson , Roald Dahl , Robert Aickman , None , Richard Barham Middleton , Rosemary Timperley , L.P. Hartley , Cynthia Asquith , F. Marion Crawford , Mary Treadgold , Jonas Lie

3.65

Format: 249 pages, Perfect Paperback

Who better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme connoisseur of the unexpected… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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2. The Graveyard Rats

By: Henry Kuttner

3.73

Format: None pages, ebook

Mason had decided that the rats had to go... they had other plans... (note: very short story!) read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

By: Charles Dickens

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Goblins kidnap a surly grave-digger to teach him some valuable lessons. read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Witch

By: Shirley Jackson

3.80

Format: 319 pages,

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by M.R. James

5. Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

By: M.R. James

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Professor Parkins finds an old whistle, his stay at Globe Inn takes a turn for the eerie. read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Ringing the changes

By: Robert Aickman

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • fiction
  • horror
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7. 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

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  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Room in the Tower

By: E.F. Benson

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

9. The Fog Horn

By: Ray Bradbury

3.32

Format: None pages,

Creative Education's short story collections are ideal introductions to some of the world's best-kn… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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10. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

11. The Upper Berth

By: F. Marion Crawford

4.09

Format: None pages,

Every now and again, the smell sea water permeates the air, as if the cabin had been flooded and ne… read more

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12. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

By: Richard Bach , Russell Munson

3.85

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get specia… read more

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  • fiction
"Why is it,"

-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"Keep working on love."

-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"Imagination is an old soul."

-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"The gull sees farthest who flies highest"

-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

13. W.S.

By: L.P. Hartley

4.12

Format: 192 pages,

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14. 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

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  • fiction
  • 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

15. Afterward

By: Edith Wharton

4.14

Format: None pages,

Or, rather, Ned answered, in the same strain, "why, amid so much that's ghostly, it can never affir… read more

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16. 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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17. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

18. Wailing Well

By: M.R. James

3.86

Format: 157 pages, ebook

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19. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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  • fiction
"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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20. The Open Door

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.60

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) who also wrote under the pseudonym F. G. Tafford, was one of the most… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Corner Shop: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Cynthia Asquith

21. The Corner Shop: A Ghost Story for Christmas

By: Cynthia Asquith

3.73

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. Peter Wood enters a … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Bewitched

By: Edith Wharton

3.34

Format: None pages, None

“Bewitched” is a short story by Edith Warton, first published in 1926 in the collection “Here and B… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.33

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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24. The Shadow in the Corner

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.59

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Michael had often heard that dismal story: how, when Anthony Bascom's fair false wife had left him,… read more

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  • horror

25. The Telephone

By: Mary Treadgold

2.86

Format: 7 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • horror

26. Elias and the Draug

By: Jonas Lie

2.60

Format: 8 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Sweeper by A.M. Burrage

27. The Sweeper

By: A.M. Burrage

3.59

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

This comes to you courtesy of Miniature Masterpieces who have an excellent range of quality short s… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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28. On the Brighton Road

By: Richard Barham Middleton

3.32

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

29. Christmas Meeting

By: Rosemary Timperley

3.77

Format: 2 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • fiction

30. In the Tube

By: E.F. Benson

3.51

Format: 14 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • horror
"If you come to think of it, the one thing which the human mind cannot grasp is the finite, not the infinite, the temporary, not the eternal."

-E.F. Benson, In the Tube

31. Harry

By: Rosemary Timperley

4.07

Format: 9 pages, ebook

None read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

22 must-read fiction books like The Sweeper by A.M. Burrage

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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Edith Wharton , E.F. Benson , Roald Dahl , Robert Aickman , None , Richard Barham Middleton , Rosemary Timperley , L.P. Hartley , Cynthia Asquith , F. Marion Crawford , Mary Treadgold , Jonas Lie

3.65

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The Graveyard Rats

Henry Kuttner

3.73

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The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

Charles Dickens

3.75

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The Witch

Shirley Jackson

3.80

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

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Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

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The Voice in the Night

William Hope Hodgson

3.47

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