"The twins were loitering over their cereal, and Mrs. Walpole, with one eye on the clock and the other on the kitchen window past which the school bus would come in a matter of minutes, felt the unreasonable irritation that comes with being late on a school morning, the wading-through-molasses feeling of trying to hurry children."-Shirley Jackson, The Renegade
"The twins were loitering over their cereal, and Mrs. Walpole, with one eye on the clock and the other on the kitchen window past which the school bus would come in a matter of minutes, felt the unreasonable irritation that comes with being late on a school morning, the wading-through-molasses feeling of trying to hurry children."-Shirley Jackson, The Renegade
If you liked the horror plot in The Renegade by Shirley Jackson , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
2. Berenice
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.00
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Bereniceis a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The tale is centered on the death of a young gi… read more
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3. Blubber
By: Judy Blume
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The classic novel about bullying from America's No.1 children's author. read more
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- classics
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4. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
By: Edgar Allan Poe
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more
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- short stories
- classics
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- horror
5. 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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6. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- fiction
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
7. The Erl-King
By: Angela Carter
3.91
Format: 160 pages,
A maiden wanders into the woods and is seduced by the sinister Erl-King, a seeming personification … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
8. Ligeia
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.51
Format: 235 pages,
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more
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9. The Werewolf
By: Angela Carter
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A tale of a girl who goes visit her grandmother, but encounters a mysterious werewolf on the way... read more
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10. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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- classics
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- horror
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
11. 1408 وقصص أخرى
By: Stephen King , هشام فهمي , None
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
mjmw`@ qSS mtrjm@ lstyfn kynj n Grf lfndq 'mkn mkhyf@ bTby`th Hqan, 'l tr~ dhlk? '`ny, km shkhSan s… read more
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12. 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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14. The Cask of Amontillado
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.08
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more
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"For the love of God, Montresor!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
15. The Library of Babel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres
4.35
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more
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"O Time thy pyramids."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
16. 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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"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
17. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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18. The Left Right Game
By: Jack Anderson
4.28
Format: 214 pages, ebook
A man living in Bristol, UK doesn’t think much of it when his former roommate, Alice, drops out of … read more
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- fiction
- horror
19. Fluids
By: May Leitz
3.43
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
A woman, desperate for companionship. Another woman desperate for acceptance. Love and obsession qu… read more
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- horror
20. The Husband Stitch
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.36
Format: 45 pages, ebook
"‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’ … read more
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"I feel as lonely as I have ever been"-Carmen Maria Machado, The Husband Stitch
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"The twins were loitering over their cereal, and Mrs. Walpole, with one eye on the clock and the other on the kitchen window past which the school bus would come in a matter of minutes, felt the unrea…"-Shirley Jackson, The Renegade
