6 best-selling horror books like Ghost Stories and Mysteries by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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Ghost Stories and Mysteries

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.68

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Joseph Sheridan LeFanu is generally recognized as the greatest Victorian writer of ghost stories, a…

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1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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2. Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.02

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understan…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

"It's because it's the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now …"

-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

"With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's und…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

"She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I …"

-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

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3. The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Jacob Weisman , None

3.73

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

This vibrant collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and sheds much ne… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

By: Barbara Hambly

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When the Black Dragon seized the Deep of Ylferdun, young Gareth braved the far Winterlands to find … read more

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  • fiction
"Maggots from meat,’"

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

"There are real problems, not just money and power, in my own lands."

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

"She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted."

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

"Dragonsbane, they called him. Slayer of dragons. Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that."

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

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5. Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.59

Format: 320 pages,

Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence--and the patronag… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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6. The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Room in the Tower

By: E.F. Benson

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Dickon el diablo y otros relatos extraordinarios

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1818-1873), heredero de la tradicion gotica, nos ha legado una coleccion i… read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • ghost stories
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9. Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

By: Stefan Zweig , Ahmet Cemal

4.11

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

Stefan Zweig Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu (Brief einer Unbekannten) adlı uzun öyküsünü 1920'li yı… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"იმდენი ვიოცნებე,რომ, თუ შეიძლება ასე ითქვას ოცნება გადავცვითე..."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"... bir tel gibi gergindim ve varlığının ona her dokunuşuyla tınlıyordum."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"...el momento apasionado que se apaga sin dejar rastro en el humo del olvido."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"Je veux te dévoiler toute ma vie, cette vie qui n'a vraiment commencé que le jour où je t'ai connu."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

10. سینوهه

By: Mika Waltari , ذبیح‌الله منصوری

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptianoutsold e… read more

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11. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more

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12. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

13. Wieland, or, The Transformation

By: Charles Brockden Brown

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Wieland or the Transformation Genius and knowledge command respect; but superior geniu… read more

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14. El agujero del infierno

By: Adrian Ross

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

'Adrian Ross' was a great name to conjure with in the early years of the 20th century. A founding f… read more

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15. The Haunting of Hill House

By: Shirley Jackson , None

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959,… read more

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16. Vera

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more

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17. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems

By: Stanley Appelbaum , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Great title poem plus "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," and twenty more sonnets, lyrics, and odes, includ… read more

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18. Gerald's Game

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gerald und Jessie Burlingame haben sich in ihr einsames Sommerhaus zuruckgezogen. Gerald mochte dem… read more

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19. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more

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20. Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.16

Format: 320 pages,

In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger … read more

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21. Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the he… read more

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22. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.37

Format: 414 pages,

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more

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23. Korku

By: Stefan Zweig , İlknur İgan

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rahat ve korunakli bir yasam suren saygin bir kadin, sekiz yillik evliliginden sikilmis, burjuva du… read more

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24. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more

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25. Contact

By: Carl Sagan

4.15

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?"

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

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26. Beren and Lúthien

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.04

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmaril… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"And then he turned, and did not weep: too dark his heart, the wound too deep."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

"Thou smellest of dog, and what news of good came ever to a cat from a fairy that had had dealings with the dogs?"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

"Rivers of fire at dead of night in winter lying cold and white upon the plain burst forth, and high the red was mirrored in the sky."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

"The slow time passed. Then in the gloom two eyes there glowed. He saw his doom, Beren, silent, as his bonds he strained beyond mortal might enchained. Lo! sudden there was rending sound of chains tha…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

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27. Remina

By: Junji Ito

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

I MET REMINA'S EYE. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Og… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Pew

By: Catherine Lacey

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

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29. La bestia

By: Carmen Mola

3.75

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Premio Planeta 2021 Corre el año 1834 y Madrid, una pequeña ciudad que trata de abrirse paso más… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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30. The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3.97

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumou… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
"En un instante infinito la lluvia quedó suspendida en el aire, un millón de lágrimas de cristal flotando en el vacío, y vi al ángel besarla en la frente, sus labios marcando su piel como hierro cande…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Era entonces cuando la gran silueta oscura aparecía a la puerta de la casa, un gran ángel con rostro de mármol que me miraba y sonreía como un lobo, desplegando sus alas negras sobre Blanca y envolvi…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas par alas cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

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31. El cirujano de almas

By: Luis Zueco

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

En tiempos de oscuridad y prejuicios, arriesgó su vida para salvar la de los demás. «Luis Zueco … read more

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  • fiction

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3.71

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4.02

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Jacob Weisman , None

3.73

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Barbara Hambly

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Michael Crichton

3.91

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Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

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Isaac Asimov

4.19

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