21 best-selling horror books like Cumbrian Ghost Stories: Weird Tales from an Old Land by Tony Walker

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Cumbrian Ghost Stories: Weird Tales from an Old Land

By: Tony Walker

4.05

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen supernatural stories set in the county of Cumbria. The collection includes classic ghost st…

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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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"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. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.00

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more

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"Wisdom devours the weak."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

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3. Midnight Mass

By: F. Paul Wilson

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to … read more

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4. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

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5. Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

By: None

4.22

Format: 206 pages,

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in h… read more

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6. The Ritual

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.59

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more

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"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual

7. The Hounds of Tindalos

By: Frank Belknap Long

3.19

Format: None pages,

Frank Belknap Long wrote a number of early Cthulhu Mythos stories. These included "The Hounds of Ti… read more

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8. The Ghostly Rental

By: Henry James

3.71

Format: 435 pages, ebook

Employing the subtle methods of presenting mysterious ghost stories in the backdrop of psychologica… read more

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9. 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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10. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Tales of Alderley, #1)

By: Alan Garner

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wiz… read more

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11. 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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12. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

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13. Gothic

By: Philip Fracassi

3.83

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk … read more

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14. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

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15. Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites

By: Katy Soar

4.08

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

In the wood the grey stone rose from the grass, and she cried out and ran back in panicked terror. … read more

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16. From Below

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... … read more

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"The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there."

-Darcy Coates, From Below

"Humans were never intended to reach the depths they were seeking. The only way they had was through a century of trial and error, of pushing the limits, of countless deaths in search of a way down. C…"

-Darcy Coates, From Below

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17. Into the Pit (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #1)

By: Scott Cawthon

4.10

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-len… read more

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18. The Haunting of Hurst House (Mercy Willow, #1)

By: Amy Cross

3.97

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

When she moves to a small coastal Cornish village, Mercy Willow hopes to start a new life. She has … 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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20. Cold Storage

By: David Koepp

3.70

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic… read more

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"The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator."

-David Koepp, Cold Storage

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21. The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

By: Evan Winter

4.39

Format: 529 pages, ebook

Desperate to delay an impending attack by the indigenous people of Xidda, Tau and his queen craft a… read more

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"Abasi Odili won't escape what he's done," Tau told him. "Keep fighting, and I swear that before it consumes us, we'll burn our pain to ash in the fires of vengeance."

-Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

"Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to chang…"

-Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

"Rage is love...twisted in on itself. Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what w…"

-Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)

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22. The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

By: Evan Winter

4.31

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society… read more

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"to achieve greater results we must outlay greater effort."

-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

"The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve."

-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

"Your Journey ends here, on this battleground. Tomorrow is nothing more than a formality"

-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

"Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal."

-Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)

23. The Horror at Chilton Castle

By: Joseph Payne Brennan

3.83

Format: None pages, None

A man visits is ancestral homeland and the castle where he discovers that his family harbors dark s… read more

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24. Real Ghost Stories: True Tales Of The Supernatural From The UK & Ireland Volume Three

By: Tina Vantyler

4.24

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you brave enough to tackle 16 delightfully frightful original true ghost stories? These 16 bra… read more

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25. The Spirit on Sidle Street (Mercy Willow, #2)

By: Amy Cross

4.31

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Now that she's established herself as an estate agent, Mercy Willow finds that she has an unusual a… read more

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26. Playmates

By: A.M. Burrage

4.13

Format: 24 pages, Unknown Binding

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27. 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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28. "Where angels fear-"

By: Manly Wade Wellman

3.67

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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29. The Shadow

By: E. Nesbit

3.49

Format: None pages, None

“The Shadow” is a ghost story told in an unusual style: a ghost story that was actually not at all … read more

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30. Cumbrian Ghost Stories: Weird Tales from an Old Land

By: Tony Walker

4.05

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen supernatural stories set in the county of Cumbria. The collection includes classic ghost st… read more

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31. The Black Widow

By: John S. Glasby

3.60

Format: None pages, None

A couple get more than they bargain for going on an extended holiday to a villa with suspiciously c… read more

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19 must-read fiction books like The Ritual by Adam L.G. Nevill

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The Deep

Nick Cutter

3.42

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Nick Cutter

3.85

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Paul Tremblay

3.79

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