The Quincunx
By: Walter de la Mare
4.07
Format: None pages, None
First published in Lady's Realm, December 1906. Revised when collected in A Beginning and Other…
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1. The Quest of Iranon
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.48
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
"The Quest of Iranon" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on February 28, 1921, and… read more
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"Wherefore do ye toil; is it not that ye may live and be happy? And if ye toil only that ye may toil more, when shall happiness find you? Ye toil to live, but is not life made of beauty and song? And …"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Quest of Iranon
2. The Haunted House
By: Charles Dickens , Wesley Stace
3.08
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Compiled by Charles Dickens, and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contribu… read more
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"Evil communications corrupt good manners."-Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
"And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to m…"-Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
3. The Beast in the Cave
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.43
Format: 11 pages, Kindle Edition
a selection from the beginning of the story: The horrible conclusion which had been gradually intru… read more
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4. The Grey Woman
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.64
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
The Grey Woman is a gothic novella written by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is set in the mid-19th c… read more
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5. Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad
By: M.R. James
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Professor Parkins finds an old whistle, his stay at Globe Inn takes a turn for the eerie. read more
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6. Honeysuckle Cottage
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Hardboiled crime writer James Rodman assumes his luck is in when he inherits Honeysuckle Cottage. B… read more
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7. 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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8. The Body Snatcher
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more
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10. The Ghostly Rental
By: Henry James
3.71
Format: 435 pages, ebook
Employing the subtle methods of presenting mysterious ghost stories in the backdrop of psychologica… read more
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11. The Red Lodge
By: H. Russell Wakefield
4.27
Format: 197 pages, ebook
H. R. Wakefield was one of the most popular ghost-story writers of the early 20th century. 'The Red… read more
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12. The Judge's House
By: Bram Stoker
3.00
Format: None pages,
A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds th… read more
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14. A Warning to the Curious
By: M.R. James
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently … read more
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15. The Monkey's Paw
By: W.W. Jacobs
3.84
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more
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"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
16. Thurnley Abbey
By: Perceval Landon
3.68
Format: 12 pages, ebook
The classic 1908 ghost story by Perceval Landon, originally featured in his book, Raw Edges: Studie… read more
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17. A Neighbour's Landmark
By: M.R. James
3.24
Format: None pages, ebook
M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not p… read more
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18. The House with the Brick-Kiln
By: E.F. Benson
3.49
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
The House with the Brick-Kiln By E. F. Benson Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, obl… read more
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20. The Tractate Middoth
By: M.R. James
3.59
Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition
A librarian encounters the cobweb-covered ghost of a man entombed with his books. read more
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21. The Shadow in the Corner
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
3.59
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Michael had often heard that dismal story: how, when Anthony Bascom's fair false wife had left him,… read more
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22. The Telephone
By: Mary Treadgold
2.86
Format: 7 pages, Unknown Binding
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"If you come to think of it, the one thing which the human mind cannot grasp is the finite, not the infinite, the temporary, not the eternal."-E.F. Benson, In the Tube
24. "Where angels fear-"
By: Manly Wade Wellman
3.67
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
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25. The Shadow
By: E. Nesbit
3.49
Format: None pages, None
“The Shadow” is a ghost story told in an unusual style: a ghost story that was actually not at all … read more
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26. The Mistress in Black
By: Rosemary Timperley
3.95
Format: None pages, None
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27. The Quincunx
By: Walter de la Mare
4.07
Format: None pages, None
First published in Lady's Realm, December 1906. Revised when collected in A Beginning and Other… read more
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28. The Doll
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.46
Format: None pages, ebook
Fiction Reprint, Short Story Lost for more than 70 years, this dark story of a man's obsessive p… read more
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29. The Triumph of Night
By: Edith Wharton
3.57
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in yellow wibalin cloth st… read more
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30. The Family of the Vourdalak
By: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
3.77
Format: None pages, ebook
Marquis d'Ufré, a young French diplomat, finds himself in a small Serbian village, in the house of … read more
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31. The House in the Forest: A Ghost Story (Haunted Houses Book 3)
By: Tony Walker
3.26
Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition
Rebecca is hitchhiking home on a late winter night. She gets a lift from a man and his daughter but… read more
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