21 Best short stories books like Ghostly Stories by Celia Fremlin

Cover of Ghostly Stories by Celia Fremlin

Ghostly Stories

By: Celia Fremlin

3.65

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at…

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1. The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark

By: Muriel Spark

3.68

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Eight spooky stories from the mistress of the unexpected. I aim to startle as well as please," Muri… read more

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  • horror
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ghosts
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2. 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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  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

Cover of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

3. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

By: Kate Summerscale

4.17

Format: None pages,

The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. In… read more

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4. Mrs Fox

By: Sarah Hall

4.15

Format: 399 pages, ebook

'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

6. Homeland and Other Stories

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.87

Format: None pages,

Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more

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7. Giacomo Joyce

By: James Joyce

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentar… read more

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8. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine

By: Thom Jones

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the wo… read more

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9. A Good Man Is Hard To Find

By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more

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10. My Son the Fanatic

By: Hanif Kureishi

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more

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11. The Inner Room

By: Robert Aickman

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more

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12. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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14. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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15. Paradise

By: Edna O'Brien

3.44

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. They: A Sequence of Unease

By: Kay Dick

3.38

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

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17. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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19. Come Rain or Come Shine

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.65

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Dante and the Lobster

By: Samuel Beckett

3.32

Format: None pages, None

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. Terrific Mother

By: Lorrie Moore

3.54

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. Shanti

By: Vikram Chandra

3.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. The Country Funeral

By: John McGahern

3.84

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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24. Fairy Tales

By: Marianne Moore

3.25

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot Díaz

25. The Cheater's Guide to Love

By: Junot Díaz

3.75

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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26. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ghostly Stories by Celia Fremlin

27. Ghostly Stories

By: Celia Fremlin

3.65

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • gothic
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • ghost stories
Cover of An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

28. An Elegy for Easterly

By: Petina Gappah

3.51

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Three Types of Solitude

By: Brian W. Aldiss

3.46

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."

-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude

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30. Daughters of Passion

By: Julia O'Faolain

3.40

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

23 Top fiction books like Ghostly Stories by Celia Fremlin

Transform Your Habits

The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

None

Barbara Pym

None

Transform Your Habits

Mrs Fox

Sarah Hall

4.15

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25 Best fiction books like The Country Funeral by John McGahern

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Killing and Dying: Stories

Adrian Tomine

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

Claire Keegan

3.46

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Queen of Dirt Island

Donal Ryan

4.09

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