10 best-selling short stories books like The Prayer by Violet Hunt

Cover of The Prayer by Violet Hunt

The Prayer

By: Violet Hunt

3.22

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

This early work by Violet Hunt was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now re…

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Cover of The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

1. The Old Nurse's Story

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Old Nurse's Story book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story

Cover of The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39) by Agatha Christie, None, Robin  Bailey

2. The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)

By: Agatha Christie , None , Robin Bailey

3.73

Format: 8 pages, Audio Cassette

Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean … read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39) book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • mystery
  • classics
"To every problem, there is a most simple solution."

-Agatha Christie, The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)

"It seemed unnecessary for her to have had a premonition at all."

-Agatha Christie, The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)

"What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions."

-Agatha Christie, The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)

"It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong…"

-Agatha Christie, The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)

Cover of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

3. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

Similar categories in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • mystery
  • classics
  • horror
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Cover of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

4. Rip Van Winkle

By: Washington Irving

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more

Similar categories in Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

5. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

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6. 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

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • mystery
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

7. The Outsider

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: 290 pages,

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more

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8. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

Similar categories in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

9. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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10. The Sleeper and the Spindle

By: Neil Gaiman , Chris Riddell

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and il… read more

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11. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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12. Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #28)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Audio CD

Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger, but Superinte… read more

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13. The Ice Princess (Patrik Hedström, #1)

By: Camilla Läckberg , Steven T. Murray

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Returning to her hometown of Fjallbacka after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds … read more

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14. Man-Size in Marble

By: E. Nesbit , None

3.00

Format: 107 pages,

When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forwa… read more

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Cover of The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

15. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

Cover of The Shadow in the Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

16. 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

Similar categories in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Shadow in the Corner book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Brontë

17. Napoleon and the Spectre

By: Charlotte Brontë

2.63

Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was a British novelist, the eldest of the three fa… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Brontë's Napoleon and the Spectre book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • mystery
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

18. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

By: Rhoda Broughton

3.28

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Prayer by Violet Hunt

19. The Prayer

By: Violet Hunt

3.22

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

This early work by Violet Hunt was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now re… read more

Similar categories in Violet Hunt's The Prayer book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • mystery
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Wedding Witch (The Ex Hex, #3) by Erin Sterling

20. The Wedding Witch (The Ex Hex, #3)

By: Erin Sterling

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Bowen Penhallow has always been a loner, studying dark and ancient magic on a mountaintop in Wales.… read more

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Cover of The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton

21. The Striding Place

By: Gertrude Atherton

2.88

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The Striding Place is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1896… read more

Similar categories in Gertrude Atherton's The Striding Place book and Violet Hunt's The Prayer

  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

12 Top classics books like The Prayer by Violet Hunt

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The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

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The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)

Agatha Christie , None , Robin Bailey

3.73

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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

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Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

3.81

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Life in the Iron Mills

Rebecca Harding Davis , Cecelia Tichi

3.42

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The Minister's Black Veil

Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.73

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Kate Chopin

3.61

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Stephen Crane

3.56

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