20 Top horror books like The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith

The Ghost of Mohammed Din

By: Clark Ashton Smith

2.47

Format: None pages, None

It was late in the afternoon, and we were seated on the veranda of my friend’s bungalow in the Begu…

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Cover of The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story by Louisa May Alcott, A.M. Barnard, Stephen W. Hines

1. The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

By: Louisa May Alcott , A.M. Barnard , Stephen W. Hines

3.33

Format: 125 pages, Hardcover

Maurice Traherne is wrongly accused of fraud and gambling and must play a careful hand if he is to … read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
"I rather like it, for it is honest, and no malice or mischief is hidden behind it. I always distrust those smooth, sweet voices; they are insincere. I like a full, clear tone; sharp, if you please, b…"

-Louisa May Alcott, The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

Cover of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

2. The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more

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  • gothic
  • horror
"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead!"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Cover of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

3. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • gothic
  • horror
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Cover of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

4. 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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  • gothic
  • 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

Cover of Transformation (Hesperus Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

5. Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.52

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Surely never such had existed before—a misshapen dwarf, with squinting eyes, distorted features, an… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
"And to my young heart the idea of death came for the first time blended with that of joy."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

"Revenge! — the word seemed balm to me; I hugged it, caressed it, till, like a serpent, it stung me."

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no l…"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation (Hesperus Classics)

Cover of The Great God Pan (Creation Classics) by Arthur Machen

6. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

Cover of The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

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

Similar categories in H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror book and Clark Ashton Smith's The Ghost of Mohammed Din

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers

8. The Spider

By: Hanns Heinz Ewers

4.39

Format: 280 pages,

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann

9. Der Sandmann

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Vampyre; A Tale by John William Polidori

10. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Byron Glaser, None

11. 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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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • 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

Cover of Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe

12. Metzengerstein

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.04

Format: None pages,

The story takes place in Hungary, between two rival families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitz… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror

13. Olalla

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.98

Format: 296 pages,

'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more

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14. The Dead Smile

By: F. Marion Crawford

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

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15. 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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Cover of Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

16. 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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  • gothic
  • 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

Cover of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) by Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner

17. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

18. In the Court of the Dragon

By: Robert W. Chambers

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

"Oh, thou who burn'st in heart for those who burn In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn; … read more

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19. El vampiro. La familia del vurdalak

By: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

La corriente literaria que arranca del romanticismo y que hizo del vampiro una figura cuya populari… read more

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Cover of Cujo by Stephen        King

20. Cujo

By: Stephen King

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante … read more

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  • horror
"The monster nevers dies."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"There is no bad time for good news."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado."

-Stephen King, Cujo

21. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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22. Rappaccini's Daughter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

4.01

Format: 532 pages,

Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is an inspired tale of creation … read more

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23. The Withered Arm

By: Thomas Hardy , None

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

<<Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) publico catorce novelas, una cincuentena de cuentos y mas de mil poemas.… read more

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Cover of Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

24. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Cover of The Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram Stoker

25. The Secret of the Growing Gold

By: Bram Stoker

3.10

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

The history of the Brents had been something similar, but showing the causes of decadence in their … read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Marsyas in Flanders by Vernon Lee

26. Marsyas in Flanders

By: Vernon Lee

2.86

Format: None pages, None

MARSYAS IN FLANDRES foi publicado, pela primeira vez, em 1900, e republicado no ano de 1927, na col… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror

27. The House of Sounds

By: M.P. Shiel

3.15

Format: None pages, None

Shiel was a West-Indian author domiciled in Britain. He was an early writer of science fiction nove… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
"To be in love with pain-to pine after aching-is not that a wicked madness?"

-M.P. Shiel, The House of Sounds

28. The Ghost of Mohammed Din

By: Clark Ashton Smith

2.47

Format: None pages, None

It was late in the afternoon, and we were seated on the veranda of my friend’s bungalow in the Begu… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Sister Maddelena by Ralph Adams Cram

29. Sister Maddelena

By: Ralph Adams Cram

3.29

Format: None pages, None

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • horror

30. The De Grabrooke Monument

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.00

Format: 26 pages, None

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31. Execution

By: M.Y. Halidom

2.71

Format: 45 pages, None

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4.06

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3.42

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