23 Best fiction books like The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories by Tanya Kirk

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The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

By: Tanya Kirk

3.86

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

"The Haunted Library" is a new collection of classic ghost stories many of which have never before …

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Cover of Mystery in White by Martin Edwards, J. Jefferson Farjeon

1. Mystery in White

By: Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.38

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several pa… read more

Similar categories in Martin Edwards's Mystery in White book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
"That is why any general, however wrong he may be--take Napoleon, to avoid the politics of mere contemporary examples--must believe in himself to be successful, or dupe himself into such a belief. Ind…"

-Martin Edwards, Mystery in White

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2. The Taxidermist's Daughter

By: Kate Mosse

3.74

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die … read more

Similar categories in Kate Mosse's The Taxidermist's Daughter book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
"The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence."

-Kate Mosse, The Taxidermist's Daughter

Cover of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey

3. Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more

Similar categories in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1) by Mary  Stewart

4. The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)

By: Mary Stewart

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the wo… read more

Similar categories in Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
Cover of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

5. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

By: Neil Gaiman

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivat… read more

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2) by Mary  Stewart

6. The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2)

By: Mary Stewart

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted b… read more

Similar categories in Mary Stewart's The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
Cover of Who Goes There? by William F. Nolan, John W. Campbell Jr.

7. Who Goes There?

By: William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.80

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film The Thing. Campbell… read more

Similar categories in William F. Nolan's Who Goes There? book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1) by Kim Newman

8. Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

By: Kim Newman

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian P… read more

Similar categories in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
  • horror

9. Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, #1)

By: Susan Cooper

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house t… read more

Similar categories in Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, #1) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

10. Kill Creek

By: Scott Thomas

3.54

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, lies the Finch House… read more

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11. O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

3.90

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more

Similar categories in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
"Things away from home often look better than they are."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

12. Thrones, Dominations (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Jill Paton Walsh

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The wife of a wealthy man is found dead, and it is up to Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife, Harriet, t… read more

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13. Smallbone Deceased

By: Michael Gilbert

4.05

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly re… read more

Similar categories in Michael Gilbert's Smallbone Deceased book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
"It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapte…"

-Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased

Cover of Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) by Katherine Arden

14. Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

By: Katherine Arden

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debu… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • horror
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • ghosts
"You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyon…"

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

15. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • paranormal
  • fiction
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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16. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
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17. Medusa

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Min… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's Medusa book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
"I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I'm a half-finished map and I'm always trying to plot my points, and I won't have anyone do it for me."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"Sometimes, not even folding yourself into the smallest, littlest shape is enough. So you might as well stay the size you're supposed to be"

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

Cover of Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery by Christopher Golden

18. Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery

By: Christopher Golden

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Ke… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

19. No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.01

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection… read more

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

"Cats have no guilt and very little shame."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

"It's so much easier to blame the grownups than to be one."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

"The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

"The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

Cover of The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye

20. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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21. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jeffs's Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • short stories
Cover of Fyneshade by Kate   Griffin

22. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

Similar categories in Kate Griffin's Fyneshade book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Waking the Witch

By: Rachel Burge

3.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

'I tried to keep you safe, but I see now that I can't. They won't stop until they have you . . .' … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Burge's Waking the Witch book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2) by Juno  Dawson

24. The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2)

By: Juno Dawson

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of c… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • paranormal
  • fiction
Cover of Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1) by Alice   Bell

25. Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1)

By: Alice Bell

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize h… read more

Similar categories in Alice Bell's Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • ghosts
"Figgy Wellington-Forge opened the driver’s door and unfolded from the car like a sexy deck chair."

-Alice Bell, Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1)

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26. Painted Devils (Little Thieves, #2)

By: Margaret Owen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Let’s get one thing straight—Vanja Schmidt wasn’t trying to start a cult. After taking down a co… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Owen's Painted Devils (Little Thieves, #2) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
Cover of The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni

27. The Puzzle Master

By: Danielle Trussoni

3.32

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Trussoni's The Puzzle Master book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

Cover of Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell

28. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

By: Edward Parnell

3.95

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family t… read more

Similar categories in Edward Parnell's Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • horror
  • books about books
  • ghosts
Cover of Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier by Patrick  Grant

29. Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

By: Patrick Grant

4.37

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinat… read more

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Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

30. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • fiction
Cover of The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories by Tanya Kirk

31. The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

By: Tanya Kirk

3.86

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

"The Haunted Library" is a new collection of classic ghost stories many of which have never before … read more

Similar categories in Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories book and Tanya Kirk's The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

  • classics
  • ghosts
  • anthologies
  • halloween
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • books about books
  • ghost stories

6 Top classics books like The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories by Tanya Kirk

Transform Your Habits

Mystery in White

Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.38

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Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Who Goes There?

William F. Nolan , John W. Campbell Jr.

3.80

Transform Your Habits

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

3.90

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21 Best fiction books like Fyneshade by Kate Griffin

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The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

Katie Lumsden

3.67

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The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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The Maiden

Kate Foster

4.05

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