23 Top fiction books like The Outcast: And Other Dark Tales by E.F. Benson

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The Outcast: And Other Dark Tales

By: E.F. Benson

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the b…

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1. The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

By: Robert E. Howard

4.13

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"It’s a mad nightmare,’ I muttered."

-Robert E. Howard, The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

"Damned be the dark ends of the earth where old horrors live again."

-Robert E. Howard, The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

"Mankind isn't the first owner of the earth; there were Beings here before his coming -- and now, survivals of hideously ancient epochs. Maybe spheres of alien dimensions press unseen on this material…"

-Robert E. Howard, The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

"Now, if this be true, there is no limit to the horror to which mankind may be heir. If this be true, men may be hovering forever on the brink of unthought oceans of supernatural terror, parted from t…"

-Robert E. Howard, The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

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2. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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3. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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4. The First Evil (Fear Street Cheerleaders, #1)

By: R.L. Stine

3.83

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

"Give Me a D-I-E!" Newcomers Corky and Bobbi Corcoran want more than anything to make the cheer… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Witch

By: Shirley Jackson

3.80

Format: 319 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)

By: Robert Holdstock

3.77

Format: 341 pages,

The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's en… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)

By: Caroline Graham

3.97

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly … read more

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  • fiction

8. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more

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9. Dark Gods

By: T.E.D. Klein

4.09

Format: 261 pages, Mass Market Paperback

T.E.D. Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies - which Stephen King called "the most ex… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

10. The Ceremonies

By: T.E.D. Klein

3.86

Format: None pages,

Jeremy Freirs is a graduate student and teacher who decides to spend his summer working on his diss… read more

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11. Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)

By: Jim Butcher

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry keeps his nose clean and… read more

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12. The New Catacomb

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.78

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The New Catacomb is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the famous detective Sher… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Best of Luck

By: Jason Mott

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. In Bloom

By: Paul Tremblay

3.08

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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17. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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18. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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19. Cuentos de navidad

By: Charles Dickens

3.80

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Junto a la célebre Canción de Navidad, este volumen reúne otros tres cuentos de Charles Dickens (18… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!"

-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad

"A la hermosa vida de un plácido crepúsculo otoñal, a la vida tranquila una habitación silenciosa, con un enorme ventanal abierto; más allá, una terraza donde se movían las hojas y las flores perfumab…"

-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad

"She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed — as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about …"

-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad

"The Grocers'! oh the Grocers'! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sou…"

-Charles Dickens, Cuentos de navidad

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20. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jeffs's Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain book and E.F. Benson's The Outcast: And Other Dark Tales

  • short stories
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21. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924

By: Elinor Mordaunt

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist … read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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23. Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

By: Jack Townsend

4.20

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Working at a dead-end retail job in the middle of nowhere can be hard. The long hours. The helpless… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"His coffee always tasted like the pot was in need of a good cleaning, and smelled like he’d figured out a way to burn the water before brewing."

-Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

"Did you guys really need to take off all your clothing?" Paul shrugged and said, "It's only weird if you make it weird." "No," I responded, "It's weird either way."

-Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

"I thought back to what Dr. V had said during that visit, about preserving the integrity of my brain. I looked Tony in the eyes and said, "Aim for the head, please."

-Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

"When he had finally run out of steam, there were beads of sweat all over his face. I grabbed a couple napkins and offered them, which he accepted with a confused “Thanks,"

-Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)

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24. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Kamusari Tales Told at Night (Forest, #2) by Shion Miura

25. Kamusari Tales Told at Night (Forest, #2)

By: Shion Miura

4.06

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel a… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Hannah-Beast

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.81

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

The fate of a lonely girl becomes part of a town’s shameful secret history in Thriller Award winner… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Crimes Vitorianos Macabros

By: Neil R.A. Bell

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Macabra e a Crime Scene se encontram para entregar o que existe de mais poderoso na literatura true… read more

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28. Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology

By: Johnny Mains

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the shorelines, hills and towns of ancient lands, tales of twisted creatures, sins against nat… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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29. Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural (1895-1954)

By: Amara Thornton

4.15

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

Handheld Press presents a new classic short story anthology, combining the supernatural and archaeo… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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30. The Outcast: And Other Dark Tales

By: E.F. Benson

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the b… read more

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  • gothic
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

15 must-read fantasy books like The Outcast: And Other Dark Tales by E.F. Benson

Transform Your Habits

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

4.13

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

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The First Evil (Fear Street Cheerleaders, #1)

R.L. Stine

3.83

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Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)

Robert Holdstock

3.77

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The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Ann Radcliffe

3.70

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Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

Emily Tesh

4.00

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The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

Seishi Yokomizo

3.66

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