11 must-read horror books like The Chain of Destiny by Bram Stoker

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The Chain of Destiny

By: Bram Stoker

3.24

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Bram Stoker is best known for his 1897 publication, Dracula. This work - an epistolary novel weavin…

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1. First Love

By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev

3.77

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

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2. Dickon the Devil

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

2.94

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1872. Born in Dublin in 1814, he ca… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.52

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Surely never such had existed before—a misshapen dwarf, with squinting eyes, distorted features, an… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"And to my young heart the idea of death came for the first time blended with that of joy."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

"Revenge! — the word seemed balm to me; I hugged it, caressed it, till, like a serpent, it stung me."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no l…"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

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4. Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.41

Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put… read more

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  • fiction
"Ahh! They're all just pins!"

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar."

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

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5. Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

The philosophies of HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)-hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profo… read more

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  • classics
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6. Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most impo… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Crocodile

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Samuel D. Cioran

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

By: Johnston McCulley

3.99

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Old California, in a bygone era of sprawling haciendas and haughty caballeros, suffers beneath the … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Ha! A laggard at love-and in your pressence? What ails the man? Is he ill?"

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

"The persecution would cease instantly, for the commands of a Vega were made to be obeyed by all men of whatever rank."

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

"Zorro also is part of the bandido tradition, most closely associated with the possibly mythical Joaquin Murrieta and the historical Tiburcio Vasquez. As well as these local California legendary figur…"

-Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro (Zorro, #1)

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9. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Nutcracker

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

11. Olalla

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.98

Format: 296 pages,

'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more

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12. The Abysmal Brute

By: Jack London

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Jack London's tale of the corruption of prize fighting -- and the one young fighter who dared to st… read more

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13. Lady Audley's Secret

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more

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14. The Valley of Fear

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Audio CD

The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more

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15. Lady Susan

By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman

3.65

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

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16. 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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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • 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

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17. The Gift of the Magi

By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger

4.11

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

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18. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

19. The Omen

By: David Seltzer

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now updated, this classic tale of the antichrist who comes to Earth in the form of a young boy is a… read more

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20. 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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  • classics
  • 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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21. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

By: John Buchan

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

22. Flush

By: Virginia Woolf , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more

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23. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. Best of Luck

By: Jason Mott

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder, #1) by David R. Slayton

25. White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder, #1)

By: David R. Slayton

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Guthrie was a good place to be from, but it wasn’t a great place to live, not when you were like Ad… read more

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  • fiction
"He wants to help you. It's okay to ask for things, Adam. It's okay to need or want things for yourself."

-David R. Slayton, White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder, #1)

"Adam..." Sara trailed off. "I thought you knew the situation." "I do," he said. "There's a spirit over Denver, like a cloud. It's connected to people everywhere." "It's far more than that."

-David R. Slayton, White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder, #1)

"Bobby gripped his fork. "I just want you to be happy, Adam, to be-" "Normal. I know," Adam said, trying to keep calm. "But I'm not normal, Bobby. And I don't want to be. Stop trying to fix me."

-David R. Slayton, White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder, #1)

"People aren't less just because they don't live the way you do." "I didn't say that," Robert said. "You think it," Adam said. "You think we're all trash because we don't have nice cars and ugly house…"

-David R. Slayton, White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder, #1)

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26. In Bloom

By: Paul Tremblay

3.08

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. The Adventure Zone Vol.1: Here There Be Gerblins

By: Clint McElroy

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Adventure Zone! SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose … read more

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  • fiction
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28. The House of Last Resort

By: Christopher Golden

3.20

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

The next high concept horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden. Across Italy,… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Edenville

By: Sam Rebelein

3.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. The Adventure Zone Vol. 2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!

By: Clint McElroy

4.60

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D po… read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Chain of Destiny

By: Bram Stoker

3.24

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Bram Stoker is best known for his 1897 publication, Dracula. This work - an epistolary novel weavin… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror

24 best-selling fiction books like The Chain of Destiny by Bram Stoker

Transform Your Habits

First Love

Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Dickon the Devil

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

2.94

Transform Your Habits

Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

Terry Pratchett

4.41

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10 Best horror books like The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Transform Your Habits

Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Voice in the Night

William Hope Hodgson

3.47

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