12 best-selling short stories books like The Executioner by William Godwin

The Executioner

By: William Godwin

3.53

Format: None pages, None

First appeared in Blackwood's, February 1832.

If you liked the short stories plot in The Executioner by William Godwin , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle

1. 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 Wake Not the Dead by Ludwig Tieck

2. 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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  • short stories
Cover of The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

3. 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

Cover of The Diary of a Madman by Guy de Maupassant

4. The Diary of a Madman

By: Guy de Maupassant

4.60

Format: None pages,

AKA "The Madman" read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Dream Woman: A Mystery in Four Narratives by Wilkie Collins

5. 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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  • short stories
Cover of Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic by Helen L. Taylor

6. Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic

By: Helen L. Taylor

None

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Fifty-five years ago, Helen L. Taylor took John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and simplified the voca… read more

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7. 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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8. George Dobson's Expedition to Hell

By: James Hogg

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

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9. 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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Cover of Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5) by L.M. Montgomery

10. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.17

Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188 Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, … read more

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"…but youth yearned to youth."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

"We belong to the race that knows Joseph"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

"Death grows friendlier as we grow older."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

"It takes all kinds of people to make a world."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)

11. Aurelia

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

3.26

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
Cover of Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

12. Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror

By: Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

3.96

Format: 666 pages, Hardcover

Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror is an anthology of twenty tales of horror and the supe… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of A Night in the Grave - Or, the Devil's Receipt by Walter Scott

13. 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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  • short stories

14. 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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  • short stories

15. 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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  • short stories

16. 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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  • short stories

17. The Executioner

By: William Godwin

3.53

Format: None pages, None

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

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  • short stories

16 best-selling classics books like The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin by Richard Thomson

Transform Your Habits

The Premature Burial

Edgar Allan Poe

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Case of Lady Sannox

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.52

Transform Your Habits

The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

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