17 must-read short stories books like In Kropfsberg Keep by Ralph Adams Cram

In Kropfsberg Keep

By: Ralph Adams Cram

3.65

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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Cover of The Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0.1) by Leigh Bardugo

1. The Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0.1)

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.92

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Limited collector’s edition of the final book features an exclusive Darkling prequel story! Befo… read more

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"What's your favorite color?"

-Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0.1)

"To him, she was always Mama, Madraya."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0.1)

"There will be, he promised in the darkness, new words written upon his heart. I will make one."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0.1)

"There will be," he promised in the darkness, new words written upon his heart. "I will make one."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0.1)

Cover of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

2. The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more

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"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Cover of The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe

3. 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

Cover of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

4. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

Cover of The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle

5. 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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  • short stories
Cover of The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

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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Cover of Wake Not the Dead by Ludwig Tieck

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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Cover of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn Peake, Vladimir Nabokov, Dan Chaon

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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Cover of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe

9. 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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Cover of The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

10. 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

Cover of The Diary of a Madman by Guy de Maupassant

11. The Diary of a Madman

By: Guy de Maupassant

4.60

Format: None pages,

AKA "The Madman" read more

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Cover of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Byron Glaser, None

12. 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

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13. 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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14. Count Magnus

By: M.R. James

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. 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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16. George Dobson's Expedition to Hell

By: James Hogg

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

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17. 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

18. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more

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19. 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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20. The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

4.20

Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more

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"Keep away. The sow is mine."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

21. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.50

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0) by Leigh Bardugo

22. Demon in the Wood (Grishaverse, #0)

By: Leigh Bardugo

4.11

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Before he led Ravka’s Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkli… read more

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23. Aurelia

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

3.26

Format: None pages, None

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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. The Executioner

By: William Godwin

3.53

Format: None pages, None

First appeared in Blackwood's, February 1832. read more

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Edgar Allan Poe

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The Beast in the Cave

H.P. Lovecraft

3.43

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3.50

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