12 must-read short stories books like Vampire Horror! by John William Polidori

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Vampire Horror!

By: John William Polidori

3.33

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Four classic tales of the undead, read by Bill Wallis, Anthony Head, John Telfer and Cornelius Garr…

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1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

By: Jack Finney

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • horror
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."

-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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2. Colazione da Tiffany

By: Truman Capote , Bruno Tasso

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Holly Golightly, la protagonista di questo estroso romanzo breve, è una cover-girl di New York, att… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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3. The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)

By: Rin Chupeco

3.82

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

" [A] Stephen Kinglike horror story...A chilling, bloody ghost story that resonates ."― Kirkus From… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
"Even then I found the word fitting, soothing. Fireflies. Fire flies. Fire, fly."

-Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)

"There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces."

-Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)

"It is not in my nature to be interested in the living. But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature."

-Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)

"There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls’ underwear shouldn’t be one of them."

-Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)

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4. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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5. Casting the Runes

By: M.R. James

4.29

Format: None pages,

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

6. Mrs. Zant and the Ghost

By: Wilkie Collins

3.86

Format: 416 pages,

Short novel. According to Wikipedia: "William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) w… read more

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7. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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8. Great Classic Hauntings: Six Unabridged Stories

By: None

3.99

Format: None pages, Audio

Davies, an actor schooled in creating the atmosphere of suspense, reads six stories by Victorian-er… read more

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9. Horrorstör

By: Grady Hendrix , None

3.66

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
"All great works must begin with a sacrifice."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"the day had been long and her emotions were toast."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"I know this is your religion, but for me it’s just a job."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

10. Ghostly Tales: A Collection of Spine-Tingling Short Stories

By: Various , Bram Stoker , Jerome K. Jerome , Walter Scott , Michael Maloney , Amelia B. Edwards

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Audio CD

An exciting collection of spine-tingling short stories from masters of the genre, by notable author… read more

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11. The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • horror
"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

12. The Haunted

By: Bentley Little

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Perry family's new house is perfect-except for the weird behavior of the neighbors, and that od… read more

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13. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

14. 1Q84 #1-2 (1Q84, #1-2)

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

4.29

Format: 176 pages,

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmati… read more

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15. A Warning to the Curious

By: M.R. James

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently … read more

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16. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
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17. Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

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18. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

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  • audiobook
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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19. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

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"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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20. Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.23

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the c… read more

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  • audiobook
"If you have any enemies I'll kill them and you can dissect them. Would you like that?"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

"Once a thing is made, it exists in the mind of the world. The next one is easier to make, and the next one after that. ... "The first takes a twisted genius. The hundredth can be done by any blacksmi…"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

"The one advantage police had over paladins was that guards had no problem believing that someone would randomly shove pointy logs into other people. Paladins generally took a little longer to get the…"

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope (The Saint of Steel, #3)

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21. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
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22. Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1)

By: Guillermo del Toro

3.56

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A group of mercenaries on an unsanctioned mission survives a plane crash in whiteout conditions in … read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
"It can all end in a moment. Take for yourself now what tomorrow might not give you."

-Guillermo del Toro, Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1)

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23. Catchers

By: Ben Rock

3.75

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

In Buck Lake, Colorado, the resident dog catcher, Collins, is on the verge of retirement. But somet… read more

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  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • horror
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24. Ghost Stories, Volume One

By: M.R. James

3.39

Format: 3 pages, Audio CD

M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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25. Ghostly Terror!: Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook / The Yellow Wallpaper / The Beast with Five Fingers

By: M.R. James

3.41

Format: 3 pages, Audio CD

Listening Length: 2 hours and 14 minutes Three classic tales from the golden age of the ghost st… read more

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  • audiobook
  • horror
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26. Ghost Stories 2

By: M.R. James

3.62

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

This is the second collection of chilling ghost stories by M. R. James."A Warning to the Curious" f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror

27. Chilling Ghost Stories

By: Charles Dickens

3.32

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Andrew Sachs reads these four classic stories of suspense?"The Signalman" by Charles Dickens, "The … read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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28. Vampire Horror!

By: John William Polidori

3.33

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Four classic tales of the undead, read by Bill Wallis, Anthony Head, John Telfer and Cornelius Garr… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • horror
  • audiobook
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29. More Chilling Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

3.89

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Stephen Greif and Gareth Armstrong read these classic ghost stories from two masters of the genre. … read more

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  • audiobook
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30. Ghost Stories with Christopher Lee: Four Chilling Tales from the BBC TV Series

By: M.R. James

4.05

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Horror maestro Christopher Lee reads this quartet of supernatural tales, adapted from the stories o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jack Finney

3.89

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Colazione da Tiffany

Truman Capote , Bruno Tasso

3.72

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The Girl from the Well (The Girl from the Well, #1)

Rin Chupeco

3.82

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Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

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Great Classic Vampire Stories: Seven Chilling Tales

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3.78

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Dead Wrong (Calladine & Bayliss, #1)

Helen H. Durrant

3.90

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The Enchanted Wood (The Faraway Tree, #1)

Enid Blyton

4.25

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The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

A.M. Shine

3.93

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