16 Best short stories books like The Attic by Algernon Blackwood

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The Attic

By: Algernon Blackwood

2.94

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The ghost of a usurer haunts the old Chateaux, and one windy and stormy night on the anniversary of…

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Cover of Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2) by Ben Aaronovitch

1. Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant fi… read more

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"He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light. "

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

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2. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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  • short stories
"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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3. Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)

By: Charlaine Harris

3.96

Format: 291 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, … read more

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"Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter"

-Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)

"Sookie: Hey, our hair's the same color. Eric: Sure is, Girlfriend."

-Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)

"You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie."

-Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)

"JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women."

-Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)

Cover of Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris

4. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

By: Charlaine Harris

3.97

Format: 292 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire… read more

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"I'm a Waitress."

-Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

"Life begins at night"

-Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

"Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!"

-Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

"You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta"

-Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

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5. 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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  • short stories
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6. The Evil Clergyman

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.87

Format: 411 pages,

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more

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  • short stories
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7. The Dunwich Horror

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strang… read more

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  • short stories
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8. 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
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9. History of the Necronomicon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Chapbook facsimile read more

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  • short stories
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10. The Colour Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more

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  • short stories
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

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11. The Voice in the Night

By: William Hope Hodgson

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Audiobook

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consistin… read more

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  • short stories
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12. The Mist

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a vi… read more

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  • short stories
"¿Sabes qué es el talento? Es la maldición de ambicionar."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"...then went back to showing me how I could help my family most efficiently by dying young."

-Stephen King, The Mist

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13. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • short stories
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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14. The Chocolate Box: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. Poirot investigates a murder in w… read more

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  • short stories
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15. The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

By: M.R. James

3.65

Format: None pages, ebook

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16. The Damned Thing

By: Ambrose Bierce , None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, kindle

This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - ess… read more

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17. 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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18. Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas De Quincey, #1)

By: David Morrell

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical thriller. Thomas De Q… read more

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19. The Dark Half

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the seri… read more

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20. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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21. The Dream Snake

By: Robert E. Howard

3.78

Format: None pages,

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22. The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.53

Format: 256 pages, ebook

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23. The Dreams in the Witch House

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

This Halcyon Classics ebook is H.P. Lovecraft's classic occult tale of horror THE DREAMS IN THE WIT… read more

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  • short stories
"The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound-and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other, fainter noises which he suspected w…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House

24. The Affair at the Victory Ball: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.14

Format: None pages,

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. A young lord is murdered at a mas… read more

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25. A Case of Identity (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #3)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Edward Raleigh

3.76

Format: None pages, Audio

Who is the wealthy Miss Mary Sutherland? More importantly, does she share a connection to the disap… read more

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26. 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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27. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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28. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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29. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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30. The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.77

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Amelia B. Edwards is acknowledged as one of the best Victorian ghost story writers. She was one of … read more

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"The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them."

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

"All tradition,’ said the Professor, ‘is a type of spiritual truth. The superstitions of the East, and the mythologies of the North—the beautiful Fables of old Greece, and the bold investigations of m…"

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

"The world,’ he said, ‘grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable all that resists expe…"

-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

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31. The Attic

By: Algernon Blackwood

2.94

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The ghost of a usurer haunts the old Chateaux, and one windy and stormy night on the anniversary of… read more

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7 best-selling fiction books like The Evil Clergyman by H.P. Lovecraft

Transform Your Habits

William Wilson

Edgar Allan Poe

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Premature Burial

Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Berenice

Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Transform Your Habits

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H.P. Lovecraft

3.87

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