5 must-read ghost stories books like The Ghost Hunters: Three Occult Detectives (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural) by Allen Upward

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The Ghost Hunters: Three Occult Detectives (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)

By: Allen Upward

3.57

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Investigating the occult using deductive reasoning, esoteric knowledge and psychic ability, the Edw…

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1. 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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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • horror
"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

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2. Out of the Deep: And Other Supernatural Tales

By: Walter de la Mare , Greg Buzwell

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Walter de la Mare wrote some of the finest traditional ghost stories in the English language. Altho… read more

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  • horror
  • short stories
  • ghost stories
"Unless you were preternaturally busy and preoccupied, you simply couldn't live on and on in a haunted house without being occasionally reminded of its ghosts."

-Walter de la Mare, Out of the Deep: And Other Supernatural Tales

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3. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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  • short stories
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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4. Lair of the White Worm

By: Bram Stoker

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a d… read more

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  • horror
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5. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • short stories
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6. The Tunnel Under the World

By: Frederik Pohl

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"The Tunnel under the World" was first published in 1954 in Galaxy magazine. On the morning of June… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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7. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.83

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was … read more

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  • horror
  • short stories
  • ghost stories

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
  • horror
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9. Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot, #30)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Audio CD

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Herc… read more

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  • mystery

10. 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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11. The Upper Berth

By: F. Marion Crawford

4.09

Format: None pages,

Every now and again, the smell sea water permeates the air, as if the cabin had been flooded and ne… read more

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12. The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."

-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

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13. 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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  • 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

14. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #22)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Audio CD

A dentist's suspicious death leads Poirot to drill the good doctor's patients, partners, lovers, an… read more

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15. Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more

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16. The Stranger's Latchkey

By: R. Austin Freeman

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Audiobook

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17. The Oracle of the Dog

By: G.K. Chesterton

3.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

I'll tell you what happened then, said Fiennes with a grim emphasis. "When we got back into that ga… read more

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18. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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19. 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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20. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

3.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes a stand...A woman's sixth… read more

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21. 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
  • 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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22. Smee: A Short Story

By: A.M. Burrage

3.76

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Smee is a crackling ghost story about a guest in a haunted house telling other visitors of the deat… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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23. 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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  • horror
  • short stories
  • ghost stories
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24. Craven Manor

By: Darcy Coates

3.93

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Daniel is desperate for a job. When someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundske… read more

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  • mystery
  • horror
Cover of The Hammer of God: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton

25. The Hammer of God: A Father Brown Mystery

By: G.K. Chesterton

3.59

Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hammer of God, starring G.K. Chesterton's humble priest detective, Father Brown. read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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26. Playmates

By: A.M. Burrage

4.13

Format: 24 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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27. The Ghost at Massingham Mansions

By: Ernest Bramah

3.03

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Then the light went out. While my hand was within an inch of the handle the light went out, as clea… read more

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28. Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance

By: M.R. James

3.42

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

"Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance" by Montague Rhodes James. Published by Good Press. Good Press pu… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

29. Mr. Mortimer's Diary

By: Amyas Northcote

3.75

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

None read more

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30. Basil Netherby

By: A.C. Benson

3.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Includes two short novels: "Basil Netherby" and "The Uttermost Farthing". read more

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  • ghost stories
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31. The Ghost Hunters: Three Occult Detectives (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)

By: Allen Upward

3.57

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Investigating the occult using deductive reasoning, esoteric knowledge and psychic ability, the Edw… read more

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  • mystery
  • horror
  • short stories
  • ghost stories

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