21 Top short stories books like The Shadow by E. Nesbit

The Shadow

By: E. Nesbit

3.49

Format: None pages, None

“The Shadow” is a ghost story told in an unusual style: a ghost story that was actually not at all …

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Cover of The Signalman by Charles Dickens, Scott Cohn

1. 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
  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

Cover of Honeysuckle Cottage by P.G. Wodehouse

2. Honeysuckle Cottage

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Hardboiled crime writer James Rodman assumes his luck is in when he inherits Honeysuckle Cottage. B… read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Nameless Offspring

By: Clark Ashton Smith

4.23

Format: 192 pages, ebook

A woman, supposedly dead, is left in an open coffin in the family vaults. She miraculously revive a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. 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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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6. The Horror of the Heights

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

5.00

Format: None pages, ebook

"The Horror of the Heights" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Stran… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

7. Good Lady Ducayne

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.71

Format: None pages,

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

8. The Haunted Dolls' House

By: M.R. James

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A macabre human drama is re-enated in a Gothic doll's house; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakab… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

9. The Cairn on the Headland

By: Robert E. Howard

3.93

Format: 192 pages,

Excerpt: And the next instant this great red loon was shaking me like a dog shaking a rat. "Where i… read more

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10. The Red Room

By: H.G. Wells

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"It's your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm once more. I heard the faint sound of … read more

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11. The Ghostly Rental

By: Henry James

3.71

Format: 435 pages, ebook

Employing the subtle methods of presenting mysterious ghost stories in the backdrop of psychologica… read more

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12. The Red Lodge

By: H. Russell Wakefield

4.27

Format: 197 pages, ebook

H. R. Wakefield was one of the most popular ghost-story writers of the early 20th century. 'The Red… read more

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13. The Judge's House

By: Bram Stoker

3.00

Format: None pages,

A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds th… read more

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14. A Warning to the Curious

By: M.R. James

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently … read more

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15. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • 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

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16. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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17. A View from a Hill

By: M.R. James

3.51

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A View From a Hill is a ghost story by M. R. James first published in The Living Age, 4 July 1925, … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of A Neighbour's Landmark by M.R. James

18. A Neighbour's Landmark

By: M.R. James

3.24

Format: None pages, ebook

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not p… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Lonesome Places

By: August Derleth

3.50

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Lost Room

By: Fitz-James O'Brien

3.17

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Fitz James O'Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; 25 October 1826 – 6 April 1862) was an Irish American … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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21. The House with the Brick-Kiln

By: E.F. Benson

3.49

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The House with the Brick-Kiln By E. F. Benson Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, obl… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of The Tractate Middoth by M.R. James

22. The Tractate Middoth

By: M.R. James

3.59

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

A librarian encounters the cobweb-covered ghost of a man entombed with his books. read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook

23. The Telephone

By: Mary Treadgold

2.86

Format: 7 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • horror

24. Between Sunset and Moonrise

By: R.H. Malden

3.56

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction

25. A Man From Glasgow

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.16

Format: None pages, None

Bilingual English-Arabic version of 'A Man From Glasgow' by W. Somerset Maugham. Dual language book… read more

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26. In the Tube

By: E.F. Benson

3.51

Format: 14 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
  • audiobook
"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

27. "Where angels fear-"

By: Manly Wade Wellman

3.67

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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  • horror

28. The Shadow

By: E. Nesbit

3.49

Format: None pages, None

“The Shadow” is a ghost story told in an unusual style: a ghost story that was actually not at all … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook

29. The Mistress in Black

By: Rosemary Timperley

3.95

Format: None pages, None

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30. The Quincunx

By: Walter de la Mare

4.07

Format: None pages, None

First published in Lady's Realm, December 1906. Revised when collected in A Beginning and Other… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories

31. The Doll

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.46

Format: None pages, ebook

Fiction Reprint, Short Story Lost for more than 70 years, this dark story of a man's obsessive p… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories

20 must-read horror books like The Shadow by E. Nesbit

Transform Your Habits

The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

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Honeysuckle Cottage

P.G. Wodehouse

4.50

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The Nameless Offspring

Clark Ashton Smith

4.23

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The Body Snatcher

Robert Louis Stevenson

4.53

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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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