5 best-selling short stories books like And No Bird Sings by E.F. Benson

Cover of And No Bird Sings by E.F. Benson

And No Bird Sings

By: E.F. Benson

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Many of the gothic romance and horror stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and befo…

If you liked the short stories plot in And No Bird Sings by E.F. Benson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine R. Hedges, Elaine Hedges

1. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper book and E.F. Benson's And No Bird Sings

  • short stories
  • horror
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

Cover of The Signalman by Charles Dickens, Scott Cohn

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

Similar categories in Charles Dickens's The Signalman book and E.F. Benson's And No Bird Sings

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

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

Cover of The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

3. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum book and E.F. Benson's And No Bird Sings

  • short stories
  • horror
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

Cover of The Secret of Macarger's Gulch by Ambrose Bierce

4. The Secret of Macarger's Gulch

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.17

Format: None pages,

A hunter wandering through Macarger's Gulch, a gulch that is barely known even to the locals, finds… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Bierce's The Secret of Macarger's Gulch book and E.F. Benson's And No Bird Sings

  • short stories
  • horror

5. The Damned Thing

By: Ambrose Bierce , None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, kindle

This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - ess… read more

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6. Count Magnus

By: M.R. James

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Cover of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Greg Bear, Carlo Pagetti

7. The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells , Greg Bear , Carlo Pagetti

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

“I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account … read more

Similar categories in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine book and E.F. Benson's And No Bird Sings

"For after the Battle comes quiet."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]"

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

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8. The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more

Similar categories in Jack London's The Call of the Wild book and E.F. Benson's And No Bird Sings

"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

9. One Summer Night

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.59

Format: 320 pages,

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10. And No Bird Sings

By: E.F. Benson

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Many of the gothic romance and horror stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and befo… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

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4.15

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3.89

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