16 Top horror books like Uno se quedó atras by Marjorie Bowen

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Uno se quedó atras

By: Marjorie Bowen

3.86

Format: 31 pages, ebook

En este relato fáustico, el protagonista, Rudolph, estudiante de grimorios, desea riqueza, fortuna …

If you liked the horror plot in Uno se quedó atras by Marjorie Bowen , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of La nave abandonada y otros relatos de horror en el mar by William Hope Hodgson

1. La nave abandonada y otros relatos de horror en el mar

By: William Hope Hodgson

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) es sin duda uno de los representantes más originales de lo que se … read more

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2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more

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"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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3. The Halloween Tree

By: Ray Bradbury

3.78

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more

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"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."

-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

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4. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

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5. Avec maman

By: Alban Orsini

3.89

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Avec Maman est une histoire qui a commencé en février 2013 : dès les premiers jours, ces échanges d… read more

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6. The Eyes of the Dragon

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons… ​Thus begins one of the most u… read more

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"Never will you talk to me like that again."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"Sleep is often denied to those with secrets."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

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7. Las batallas en el desierto

By: José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A novella depicts the harsh reality of life in urban Mexico and the tragedy of childhood innocence … read more

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"Enamorarse sabiendo que todo está perdido y no hay ninguna esperanza."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Querer a alguien no es pecado, el amor está bien, lo único demoníaco es el odio."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Qué estupidez meterme en un lío que pude haber evitado con sólo resistirme a mi imbécil declaración de amor.Todo pasó como pasan los discos en la sinfonola."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

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8. Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx

4.00

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more

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"I wish I knew how to quit you."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

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9. The Illustrated Man

By: Ray Bradbury

4.13

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to … read more

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"Oh, death in space was most humorous."

-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."

-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?"

-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

"Nothing ever likes to die--not even a room. (p.23 --> The Veldt)"

-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

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10. La condesa sangrienta

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Santiago Caruso

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Acusada del asesinato de seiscientas cincuenta jovenes, Erzsebet Bathory es una de las criminales m… read more

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11. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

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"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

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12. Psycho

By: Robert Bloch

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more

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13. The Lighthouse at the End of the World

By: Jules Verne

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

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14. Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)

By: Thomas Harris

3.21

Format: 208 pages,

HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS IN ALL OF LITERATURE. AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL I… read more

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15. The Open Door

By: Mrs. Oliphant

3.80

Format: None pages,

With a sense of mystery and suspense pervading the whole narrative, this is a very unusual work. Du… read more

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16. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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17. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more

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18. The Shop of Ghosts

By: G.K. Chesterton

3.86

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The man in the shop was very old and broken. When I put down the money, he pushed it feebly away. "… read more

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19. El monstruo pentápodo

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Raymundo Betancourt es el ciudadano modelo: profesionista honesto y responsable, solidario y compro… read more

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20. Aura

By: Carlos Fuentes

3.82

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. Th… read more

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"Hay que morir antes de renacer."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"También el demonio fue un ángel, antes…"

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentación es más grande."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

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21. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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22. 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

23. Juegos de ingenio

By: John Katzenbach

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

En un futuro cercano, la sociedad tiende a ceder gustosamente cuotas de libertad e intimidad a camb… read more

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24. The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde , Nicholas Frankel

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted "The Picture of Dorian Gray" for publication in "Li… read more

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25. Why We Broke Up

By: Maira Kalman , Daniel Handler

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happe… read more

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26. Lo que no tiene nombre

By: Piedad Bonnett

3.86

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

?Hasta donde puede llegar la literatura? En este libro dedicado a la vida y la muerte de su hijo Da… read more

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Cover of Pelea de gallos by María Fernanda Ampuero

27. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

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  • horror
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

Cover of The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors) by Guy de Maupassant

28. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

Cover of La chica descalza en la colina de los arándanos by Nieves Mories

29. La chica descalza en la colina de los arándanos

By: Nieves Mories

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

En Blueberry Hill no hay arándanos. Y es solo una de las cosas que van mal en este pueblo. Dos chic… read more

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30. Uno se quedó atras

By: Marjorie Bowen

3.86

Format: 31 pages, ebook

En este relato fáustico, el protagonista, Rudolph, estudiante de grimorios, desea riqueza, fortuna … read more

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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon

4.03

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John William Polidori

4.00

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