20 must-read short stories books like Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories by B.M. Croker

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Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories

By: B.M. Croker

3.61

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling Irish author B. M. Croker enjoyed a highly successful literary career from 1880 unt…

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1. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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2. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

By: Edogawa Rampo , James B. Harris

4.05

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's be… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"This “thing"

-Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

"Why would a man become crazy if he entered a glass globe lined with a mirror? What in the name of the devil had he seen there? . . . Did he go made after taking a glance at himself reflected by a com…"

-Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

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3. The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories

By: Marjorie Bowen

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and u… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. The Chrysalids

By: John Wyndham

3.93

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more

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  • fiction
"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

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5. 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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  • fiction
  • horror

6. The Master of the Day of Judgement

By: Leo Perutz

3.37

Format: 200 pages,

Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found shot dead in his garden pavilion, s… read more

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7. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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8. The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with cla… read more

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9. The House on the Borderland

By: William Hope Hodgson

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more

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10. Randalls Round

By: Eleanor Scott

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

BORN OF NIGHTMARES... Presented within are nine examples of the finest horror and supernatural lite… read more

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11. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

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12. The Lake of the Dead

By: André Bjerke

3.82

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the darkest part of the Norwegian woods stands Dead Man's Cabin, the site of tragedy a cent… read more

Similar categories in André Bjerke's The Lake of the Dead book and B.M. Croker's Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
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13. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more

Similar categories in Attila Veres's The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales book and B.M. Croker's Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (Tales of the Weird)

By: Tanya Kirk

3.84

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed – but the ghosts are … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Cornish Horrors: Tales From the Land's End

By: Joan Passey

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (Tales of the Weird)

By: Henry Bartholomew

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Unlike the Gothic, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted, and the ghostly, early weird fic… read more

Similar categories in Henry Bartholomew's Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (Tales of the Weird) book and B.M. Croker's Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Spectral Evidence

By: Gemma Files

3.81

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

For almost thirty years, Shirley Jackson Award-winning horror author Gemma Files has consistently s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (Tales of the Weird)

By: Daisy Butcher

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for the… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Oh, how stubbornly does love - or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart - how stubbornly does it hold its faith, until t…"

-Daisy Butcher, Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (Tales of the Weird)

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20. The Puppet King and Other Atonements

By: Justin A. Burnett

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The Puppet King and Other Atonements conjures a horrific universe of puppets, labyrinths, and limin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist (Tales of the Weird)

By: R. Murray Gilchrist

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Through vampiric trysts, heady visions of ghostly processions, and metaphorical tales of murdering … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories

By: Mike Ashley

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; the last transmission of a dying man… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings (British Library Tales of the Weird #5)

By: Tanya Kirk

4.07

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Festive cheer turns to maddening fear in this new collection of seasonal hauntings, presenting the … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. Orchard of the Dead and Other Macabre Tales

By: Stefan Grabiński

4.33

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

A new collection of original translations by a legendary writer of weird fiction often compared to … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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25. Not for the Night-Time

By: Theo Gift

3.70

Format: 73 pages, Hardcover

This collection of four fine supernatural stories set in the Victorian era "Who Was He?" "Not Expl… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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26. The Room Opposite and Other Tales

By: F.M. Mayor

4.33

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

From devastating tales of show business corrupting the innocent, to macabre tales of Christian curs… read more

Similar categories in F.M. Mayor's The Room Opposite and Other Tales book and B.M. Croker's Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Fettered and Other Tales of Terror by Greye La Spina

27. Fettered and Other Tales of Terror

By: Greye La Spina

3.25

Format: 176 pages, ebook

Although she’s mostly forgotten now, in the heyday of the pulps, Greye La Spina was more successful… read more

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28. The little blue flames and other uncanny tales

By: A.M. Burrage

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This title presents 13 mini masterpieces from one of the most undeservedly neglected authors of twe… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories by B.M. Croker

29. Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories

By: B.M. Croker

3.61

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling Irish author B. M. Croker enjoyed a highly successful literary career from 1880 unt… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. A Vanished Hand and Others

By: Clotilde Graves

4.18

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

“Only the dead are faithful to Love — because they are dead.” Clotilde Graves was known for chal… read more

Similar categories in Clotilde Graves's A Vanished Hand and Others book and B.M. Croker's Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. The Man in the High Chair

By: Kurt Fawver

4.29

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Five short pieces of related fiction from Kurt Fawver, including a reprint of the titular story tha… read more

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3.67

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