12 best-selling horror books like The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury

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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.

If you liked the horror plot in The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

1. 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
  • 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

Cover of The Beast in the Cave by H.P. Lovecraft

2. 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
  • horror
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3. 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
  • horror
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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4. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
"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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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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"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. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #9)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

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  • short stories
Cover of Polaris by H.P. Lovecraft

8. Polaris

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.99

Format: 320 pages,

"Polaris" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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9. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
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10. The Transition of Juan Romero

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit b… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

11. The Brazilian Cat

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.85

Format: None pages,

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12. The Street

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.87

Format: 291 pages,

"The Street" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 19… read more

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13. The Horror at Red Hook

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Circles and pentagrams loomed on every hand, and told indubitably of the strange beliefs and aspira… read more

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14. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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15. Memory

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Audiobook

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16. The Speckled Band (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #8)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Adventure of the Speckled Band is one of 56 short stories & 4 novels written by Arthur Conan Do… read more

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17. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was the master of American weird fiction. First published in … read more

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18. The Jaunt

By: Stephen King

4.18

Format: 25 pages, None

"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine i… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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19. 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

20. Harry

By: Rosemary Timperley

4.07

Format: 9 pages, ebook

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  • short stories
  • horror
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21. 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
  • vampires
  • horror

13 must-read short stories books like The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury

Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Beast in the Cave

H.P. Lovecraft

3.43

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The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

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Old Bugs

H.P. Lovecraft

2.82

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11 best-selling fiction books like Old Bugs by H.P. Lovecraft

Transform Your Habits

The Oblong Box

Edgar Allan Poe

3.57

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The Premature Burial

Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

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Old Bugs

H.P. Lovecraft

2.82

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The Assignation

Edgar Allan Poe

3.84

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