The Buried Alive
By: John Galt
3.35
Format: None pages, None
First published in Blackwood's, October 1821 by Anon.
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1. The Old Nurse's Story
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.64
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more
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"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story
2. The Premature Burial
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.76
Format: 32 pages,
The Premature Burial is a horror classic written by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a horror short story o… read more
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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
"I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, bad caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind; and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay; so that I co…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
3. 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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"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
4. The Case of Lady Sannox
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.46
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The famed surgeon Douglas Stone flaunts his notorious affair with Lady Sannox, although his profess… read more
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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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6. The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.40
Format: 300 pages,
"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more
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7. Wake Not the Dead
By: Ludwig Tieck
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who wa… read more
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8. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleas… read more
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10. The Complete Persepolis
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris
4.16
Format: 331 pages,
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11. 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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"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
12. The Diary of a Madman
By: Guy de Maupassant
4.60
Format: None pages,
AKA "The Madman" read more
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13. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
14. The Dream Woman: A Mystery in Four Narratives
By: Wilkie Collins
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories… read more
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15. The Adventure of the German Student
By: Washington Irving
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. How to Write a Blackwood Article
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Another humorous Poe short story. read more
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17. The Dualitists, Or, The Death Doom Of The Double Born
By: Bram Stoker
4.12
Format: 260 pages,
This is a sea story by Bram Stoker the author of Dracula. read more
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19. 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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"[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
20. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
21. Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse
By: Louisa May Alcott
0.00
Format: 152 pages, ebook
This wonderful story starts with curiosity, fun and discovery, and ends with madness and death. Two… read more
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22. Fangs
By: Sarah Andersen
4.24
Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition
A love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarah's Scri… read more
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"– In all my years, I really haven't slept with many people. I kinda have trust issues. – Why's that? – My „first"-Sarah Andersen, Fangs
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24. A Night in the Grave - Or, the Devil's Receipt
By: Walter Scott
2.58
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Many of the earliest stories of witchcraft and black magic, particularly those dating back to the 1… read more
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25. Sawney Beane: The Man Eater
By: Charles Whitehead
3.17
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
First appeared in Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers and Murderers, of All Na… read more
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26. The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin
By: Richard Thomson
2.88
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Welcome to Penny Dreadfuls, an anthology of twenty "sensation stories" all first published in the n… read more
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27. The Buried Alive
By: John Galt
3.35
Format: None pages, None
First published in Blackwood's, October 1821 by Anon. read more
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28. In Kropfsberg Keep
By: Ralph Adams Cram
3.65
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Welcome to Penny Dreadfuls, an anthology of twenty "sensation stories" all first published in the n… read more
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29. The Executioner
By: William Godwin
3.53
Format: None pages, None
First appeared in Blackwood's, February 1832. read more
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30. The Mysterious Bride
By: James Hogg
2.95
Format: None pages, None
La sposa misteriosa è un racconto di James Hogg. È la vigilia di san Lorenzo del 1777 quando il sig… read more
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31. Extracts from Gosschen's Diary
By: Anonymous
2.83
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
This story appeared anonymously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in August 1818. In their antholog… read more
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