20 must-read horror books like Harry by Rosemary Timperley

Harry

By: Rosemary Timperley

4.07

Format: 9 pages, ebook

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1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

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  • fiction
"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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2. The Tape-Measure Murder: A Miss Marple Short Story (Miss Marple)

By: Agatha Christie

3.71

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

Miss Politt has been waiting and waiting for Mrs. Spenlow outside Laburnum Cottage where Mrs. Spenl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

3. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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4. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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5. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • fiction
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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6. Ringing the changes

By: Robert Aickman

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Fantastic Mr. Fox

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, s… read more

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  • fiction
"I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement"

-Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

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9. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

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10. The Twits

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.97

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They ha… read more

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  • fiction
"Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!"

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"No one who is good can ever be ugly."

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays."

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on their face"

-Roald Dahl, The Twits

11. The Brazilian Cat

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.85

Format: None pages,

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12. Esio Trot

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.74

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Mr. Hoppy is in love with Mrs. Silver, but her heart belongs to Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr. Hoppy … read more

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  • fiction

13. 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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14. W.S.

By: L.P. Hartley

4.12

Format: 192 pages,

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15. Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

An elderly lady is on her way to Scotland Yard to report several murders in her village. "It is ver… read more

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16. The Snow Queen

By: Hans Christian Andersen , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Reprinted here for the first time since the 19th century, these color illustrations by T. Pym make … read more

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17. Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"In our choices lie our fate"

-Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

"Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who we are even more than the people we love."

-Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

"What had brought him to this outpost of hell? Ferreira wondered while following Garces into the rain: fate or his own decisions?"

-Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

"Her mother said fairy tales didn't have anything to do with the world, but Ofelia knew better. They had taught her everything about it."

-Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

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18. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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19. Thurnley Abbey

By: Perceval Landon

3.68

Format: 12 pages, ebook

The classic 1908 ghost story by Perceval Landon, originally featured in his book, Raw Edges: Studie… read more

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

20. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

21. The Horror at Chilton Castle

By: Joseph Payne Brennan

3.83

Format: None pages, None

A man visits is ancestral homeland and the castle where he discovers that his family harbors dark s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Playmates

By: A.M. Burrage

4.13

Format: 24 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

23. The horror under penmire

By: Adrian Cole

3.71

Format: None pages, None

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  • horror
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24. Blood Son

By: Richard Matheson

3.56

Format: 16 pages, ebook

A short story originally published in 1951. Variant titles include "Drink My Blood" and "Drink M… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

25. The Telephone

By: Mary Treadgold

2.86

Format: 7 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • horror

26. Elias and the Draug

By: Jonas Lie

2.60

Format: 8 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • horror
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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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

29. In the Tube

By: E.F. Benson

3.51

Format: 14 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • short stories
  • 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

30. Harry

By: Rosemary Timperley

4.07

Format: 9 pages, ebook

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. The Man Upstairs

By: Ray Bradbury

3.29

Format: None pages, None

"The Man Upstairs", a 1943 short story by Ray Bradbury from The October Country. read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

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