21 Best short stories books like A Vignette by M.R. James

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A Vignette

By: M.R. James

3.23

Format: None pages, ebook

A Vignette was James’s last ghost story, writen in 1935 and was published in The London Mercury in …

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1. The Lurking Fear

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.66

Format: 22 pages, ebook

"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November … read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. 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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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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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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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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4. The Empty House

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.85

Format: 249 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Room in the Tower

By: E.F. Benson

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. The Old Portrait

By: Hume Nisbet

3.44

Format: 220 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror

8. La casa y el cerebro

By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

10. The White People

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal … read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror

11. The Kit Bag

By: Algernon Blackwood

5.00

Format: 500 pages, ebook

"The Kit-Bag" is a short ghost story by the British author Algernon Blackwood. It was first publish… read more

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12. La música de Erich Zann

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: 16 pages, ebook

"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December … read more

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13. 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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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"[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

14. The Dream Snake

By: Robert E. Howard

3.78

Format: None pages,

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15. August Heat

By: W.F. Harvey

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

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16. Man-Size in Marble

By: E. Nesbit , None

3.00

Format: 107 pages,

When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forwa… read more

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17. Lot No. 249

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.80

Format: 240 pages,

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18. The Sandman: Act I

By: Dirk Maggs

4.39

Format: 11 pages, Audible Audio

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times Magazine as “the greatest epic in the history of comic books”, The … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

19. The Moonlit Road

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.48

Format: None pages, None

*short story read more

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  • horror
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20. 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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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
"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)

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21. The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall

By: John Kendrick Bangs

3.60

Format: None pages, None

A short story originally published in the collection The Water Ghost and Others. first published… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk: A Ghost Story for Christmas

By: Frank Cowper

3.35

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebration… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. The Corner Shop: A Ghost Story for Christmas

By: Cynthia Asquith

3.73

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. Peter Wood enters a … read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. The Snow

By: Hugh Walpole

3.68

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A famous short story read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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25. The Tower

By: Marghanita Laski

3.65

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Between the Lights

By: E.F. Benson

2.83

Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition

Between the Lights is a short horror story published in 1912. Between the Lights is a part of a sho… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror

27. The Ghost Of Christmas Eve

By: J.M. Barrie

3.14

Format: None pages, None

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28. On the Brighton Road

By: Richard Barham Middleton

3.32

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

29. Christmas Meeting

By: Rosemary Timperley

3.77

Format: 2 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. The Shootings of Achnaleish

By: E.F. Benson

4.36

Format: 50 pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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31. A Vignette

By: M.R. James

3.23

Format: None pages, ebook

A Vignette was James’s last ghost story, writen in 1935 and was published in The London Mercury in … read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror

21 Best fiction books like A Vignette by M.R. James

Transform Your Habits

The Lurking Fear

H.P. Lovecraft

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Empty House

Rosamunde Pilcher

3.85

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11 best-selling fiction books like The White People by Arthur Machen

Transform Your Habits

The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Suicide Club

Robert Louis Stevenson

2.70

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