11 Top short stories books like The Room Opposite and Other Tales by F.M. Mayor

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The Room Opposite and Other Tales

By: F.M. Mayor

4.33

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

From devastating tales of show business corrupting the innocent, to macabre tales of Christian curs…

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1. Disclosures in Scarlet

By: Carl Jacobi

3.84

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

Disclosures in Scarlet displays the full power and range of America's foremost authors of imaginat… read more

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  • horror
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2. The Third Policeman

By: Flann O'Brien

3.97

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more

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"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."

-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."

-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."

-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."

-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

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3. The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories

By: Marjorie Bowen

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and u… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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4. Coeur Double

By: Marcel Schwob

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

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5. Before the Fact

By: Francis Iles

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Lina McLaidlaw waits until she is 30 before accepting a marriage proposal from the feckless and irr… read more

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6. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

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8. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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  • horror
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9. Bodies from the Library 6: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Masters of the Golden Age of Detection

By: Tony Medawar

3.71

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Bodies from the Library brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and the 2… read more

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  • short stories
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10. A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

By: John Hornor Jacobs

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—b… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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11. The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights (Vintage Murders)

By: Various

3.34

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Not everything that goes bump in the night brings gifts ...As the nights draw in, the veil between … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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12. Agents of Oblivion

By: Iain Sinclair

4.10

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

“How long have things been coming apart in this way?” – The Lure of Silence “Generally speaking … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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13. Orchard of the Dead and Other Macabre Tales

By: Stefan Grabiński

4.33

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

A new collection of original translations by a legendary writer of weird fiction often compared to … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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14. Supernatural Tales 50: Autumn 2022

By: Helen Grant

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

New tales of the strange, occult, and downright weird from leading British and American writers of … read more

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15. No. 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki, the Untold Stories

By: A.F. Kidd

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Like the detective stories of Sherlock Holmes, the Carnacki tales of William Hope Hodgson contain s… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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16. The Room Opposite and Other Tales

By: F.M. Mayor

4.33

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

From devastating tales of show business corrupting the innocent, to macabre tales of Christian curs… read more

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  • horror
  • short stories
  • british literature
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17. Lost Estates

By: Mark Valentine

4.27

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

“I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the wa… read more

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18. The Fortunate Isles

By: Lisa L. Hannett

4.00

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The Fortunate Isles collects fourteen tales of salt-crusted weirdness from the rugged, cold-clime h… read more

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19. Hauntings

By: Peter Bell

4.38

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Peter Bell in these ten stories presents an intriguing gallery of people and places that are in var… read more

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20. Murder Under the Sun: Classic Mysteries for Summer

By: Cecily Gayford

3.63

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ic… read more

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  • short stories
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21. Supernatural Tales 49: Spring 2022

By: David Longhorn

3.92

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

New stories of the weird, occult, and paranormal by leading authors in the field. read more

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22. Blood Wood and Other Stories

By: Christopher Harman

4.40

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Harman is a former librarian and lives in Preston, Lancashire. His stories have appeare… read more

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23. Friends and Spectres

By: Robert Lloyd Parry

4.43

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

“If there is anything about which the present generation is bewilderingly well-informed it is the s… read more

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24. Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen

By: Edward Parnell

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A seaside honeymoon holiday is plagued by the mystery of bells which never stop ringing – and that … read more

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25. Spirits of the Dead

By: Ron Weighell

4.33

Format: 177 pages, Hardcover

Here are eleven superlative stories, three of which are previously unpublished ... tales featuring … read more

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26. Outlaws and Sorrows

By: Charles Nodier

3.00

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

This collection assembles the works of fiction that Charles Nodier (1780-1844), one of the great pi… read more

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27. Hellebore: Yuletide Hauntings 2023

By: Maria J. Pérez Cuervo

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Spectral Roman armies wading across newly built motorways, grey ladies roaming the corridors of sta… read more

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  • horror
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28. The Tree of Sacrifice

By: Per Faxneld

4.25

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Available in English for the first time, Per Faxneld's The Tree of Sacrifice comprises forty-four S… read more

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29. This Haunted Heaven: Ten Strange Stories

By: Reggie Oliver

4.56

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Ten strange stories from a modern master story-teller, Reggie Oliver’s impressive tales range from … read more

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30. The Other End

By: R. Ellis Roberts

4.20

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

In his day, R. Ellis Roberts was a well-known literary critic and writer. He contributed reviews an… read more

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  • horror
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31. The Devil Snar'd

By: George R. Preedy

4.33

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

The Devil Snar'd; New Nine Penny Novels Number 13 read more

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3.84

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3.87

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4.06

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3.69

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3.69

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4.33

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3.77

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