18 must-read horror books like A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring-Gould

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A Dead Finger

By: Sabine Baring-Gould

2.82

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Sabine's Baring-Gould's strangest and most enduring works are those which are based on fantastical …

If you liked the horror plot in A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring-Gould , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe

1. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist by H. Hesketh-Prichard, None, E. Heron, H. Heron

2. Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard , None , E. Heron , H. Heron

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

E. and H. Heron were the pen names of Hesketh Pritchard and his mother Kate. Their Flaxman Low stor… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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3. The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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4. The Room in the Tower

By: E.F. Benson

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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5. The Old Portrait

By: Hume Nisbet

3.44

Format: 220 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror

6. Who Knows?

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.88

Format: 440 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror

7. Mrs. Zant and the Ghost

By: Wilkie Collins

3.86

Format: 416 pages,

Short novel. According to Wikipedia: "William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) w… read more

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8. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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9. The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, flutte… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

10. The Man of the Night

By: Edgar Wallace , Cathy Dobson

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Audiobook

Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) had no equal in the realm of the pure "thriller." The Man of the Night … read more

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11. The Wendigo

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-know… read more

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12. Three Miles Up and Other Strange Stories

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bookcraft in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head a… read more

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13. The Red Lodge

By: H. Russell Wakefield

4.27

Format: 197 pages, ebook

H. R. Wakefield was one of the most popular ghost-story writers of the early 20th century. 'The Red… read more

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14. The Judge's House

By: Bram Stoker

3.00

Format: None pages,

A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds th… read more

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15. A Warning to the Curious

By: M.R. James

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently … read more

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16. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

17. Wailing Well

By: M.R. James

3.86

Format: 157 pages, ebook

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18. 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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19. 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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  • short stories
  • horror
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20. 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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21. The Shadow in the Corner

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.59

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Michael had often heard that dismal story: how, when Anthony Bascom's fair false wife had left him,… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

22. The Telephone

By: Mary Treadgold

2.86

Format: 7 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • horror

23. In the Tube

By: E.F. Benson

3.51

Format: 14 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • short stories
  • horror
"If you come to think of it, the one thing which the human mind cannot grasp is the finite, not the infinite, the temporary, not the eternal."

-E.F. Benson, In the Tube

24. "Where angels fear-"

By: Manly Wade Wellman

3.67

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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  • horror
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25. The Triumph of Night

By: Edith Wharton

3.57

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in yellow wibalin cloth st… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring-Gould

26. A Dead Finger

By: Sabine Baring-Gould

2.82

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Sabine's Baring-Gould's strangest and most enduring works are those which are based on fantastical … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of Madam Crowl's Ghost by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

27. Madam Crowl's Ghost

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.06

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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28. Walnut-Tree Farm

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.87

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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29. Gibbet Hill

By: Bram Stoker

3.70

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

As if by the irony of fate, there, beside me, was a grim memorial of man’s wickedness and lust for … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Old House in Vauxhall Walk by Charlotte Riddell

30. The Old House in Vauxhall Walk

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.27

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Filthy of person, repulsive to look at, hard of heart as she was, he yet beheld another phantom, wh… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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31. Someone in the Lift

By: L.P. Hartley

3.19

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories

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Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

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2.50

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Robert Louis Stevenson

4.53

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3.97

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Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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3.40

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Roald Dahl

3.84

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William Hope Hodgson

3.47

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