23 Top horror books like The Fenstanton Witch by M.R. James

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The Fenstanton Witch

By: M.R. James

3.06

Format: None pages, ebook

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1. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.97

Format: 49 pages, ebook

".. Marie Roget" is often subtitled "A Sequel to The Murders in the Rue Morgue." It is a short stor… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Разумът търси пътя към истината чрез поставяне на очебийното над обичайното."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"Целта на нашите вестници е по-скоро да правят сензации, отколкото да помагат за откриване на истината."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

"..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

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2. The Pale Man

By: Julius Long

3.76

Format: 2 pages, ebook

A snappy obscurity tale about a man living in a small country hotel. He becomes obsessed with the a… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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3. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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4. The Adventure of the Final Problem - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #11)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.11

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

Sherlock Holmes has determined that there is a diabolical mastermind behind the criminal activities… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"It's stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Final Problem - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #11)

"He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain …"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Final Problem - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #11)

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5. The Oval Portrait

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.94

Format: None pages,

In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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6. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. The Dunwich Horror

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strang… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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8. The Musgrave Ritual (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #5)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.12

Format: None pages,

Holmes recounts to Watson the events arising after a visit from a university acquaintance, Reginald… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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9. The Colour Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

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10. The Voice in the Night

By: William Hope Hodgson

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Audiobook

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consistin… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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11. 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
  • horror
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12. Hop Frog

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Don Kisner , None

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Hop-Frog and his friend Trippetta have been captured by one of the king's generals and brought back… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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13. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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14. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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15. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • classics
  • horror
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

16. 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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17. The Rats in the Walls

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more

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18. 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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  • classics
  • short stories
  • 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

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19. 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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  • classics
  • horror
"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

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20. The Dreams in the Witch House

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.73

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

This Halcyon Classics ebook is H.P. Lovecraft's classic occult tale of horror THE DREAMS IN THE WIT… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound-and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other, fainter noises which he suspected w…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House

21. Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more

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22. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth

3.95

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

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23. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

24. The Whisperer in Darkness

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Ar… read more

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25. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more

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26. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

27. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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28. A Terribly Strange Bed

By: Wilkie Collins

3.58

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

""A Terribly Strange Bed"" is a short story by the renowned English author, Wilkie Collins. The sto… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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29. The Toll House

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.33

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

An chilling ghost story by W.W. Jacobs is reborn in this illustrated Christmas edition by renowned … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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30. All Hallows

By: Walter de la Mare

3.27

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • horror
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31. The Fenstanton Witch

By: M.R. James

3.06

Format: None pages, ebook

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  • classics
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24 Best classics books like The Fenstanton Witch by M.R. James

Transform Your Habits

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)

Edgar Allan Poe

2.97

Transform Your Habits

The Pale Man

Julius Long

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Adventure of the Final Problem - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #11)

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.11

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6 Best mystery books like The Toll House by W.W. Jacobs

Transform Your Habits

Lost Hearts

M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Signalman

Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Voice in the Night

William Hope Hodgson

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk: A Ghost Story for Christmas

Frank Cowper

3.35

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