17 must-read horror books like Clutching Hands of Death by Harold Ward

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Clutching Hands of Death

By: Harold Ward

3.86

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

A tale of terror—of a weird surgical operation performed in France — and a ghastly horror that stal…

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1. Shiver: Selected Stories

By: Junji Ito

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.This volume includes nine of Junji Ito’s be… read more

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  • horror
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2. The Oblong Box

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.57

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844 in "Godey's Lady's Bo… read more

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  • horror
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3. The Colour Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.03

Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback

'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more

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"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

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4. Rats

By: M.R. James

3.65

Format: 276 pages, ebook

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  • horror
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5. The Interlopers (Tale Blazers)

By: Saki

3.63

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Two men, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, are both in a forested area on the Carpathian Mounta… read more

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  • horror

6. Caterpillars

By: E.F. Benson

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Audiobook

In the beautiful Villa Cascana on the Italian Riviera, all is not as it seems. Why does the hostess… read more

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7. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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8. Mother of Toads

By: Clark Ashton Smith

4.17

Format: 128 pages,

She was called "The Mother of Toads" and Pierre braved the dark woods to see her... read more

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9. Smee: A Short Story

By: A.M. Burrage

3.76

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Smee is a crackling ghost story about a guest in a haunted house telling other visitors of the deat… read more

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  • horror
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10. Outside the Door

By: E.F. Benson

2.83

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 - 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoi… read more

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  • horror
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11. The Brain-Eaters

By: Frank Belknap Long

3.40

Format: 9 pages, None

"The Brain-Eaters" is a short story by the American author, Frank Belknap Long. First published in … read more

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  • horror

12. Eyes for the Blind

By: Frederick Cowles

3.31

Format: 7 pages, None

‘What I can never understand about your Church,’ said Doctor Taylor, ‘is the manner in which it so … read more

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13. The Hollow Moon

By: Everil Worrell

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

A fascinatingly different story about the weird adventure that befell a party of Americans shipwrec… read more

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14. The Floor Above

By: M.L. Humphreys

3.79

Format: 11 pages, None

None read more

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15. The Creeper in the Crypt

By: Robert Bloch

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Psycho, a Lovecraftian tale of Arkham, town of eldritch horrors and monsters. Ga… read more

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  • horror
"The life of a painter demands solitude"

-Robert Bloch, The Creeper in the Crypt

16. The Ocean Ogre

By: Dana Carroll

3.67

Format: 6 pages, None

A tale of the thing called Alain Gervais that came aboard a ship at sea. read more

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17. .Murder in the grave

By: Edmond Hamilton

4.00

Format: None pages, None

."Murder in the Grave" is a short story by the American author, Edmond Hamilton. The story was publ… read more

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18. The Chadbourne Episode

By: Henry S. Whitehead

3.55

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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19. The Snowman

By: Loretta G. Burrough

3.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

None read more

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20. An Evening's Entertainment

By: M.R. James

3.58

Format: None pages, ebook

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not p… read more

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  • horror

21. The Night They Crashed the Party

By: Robert Bloch

3.60

Format: 10 pages, None

"The Night They Crashed the Party", a short story by American author, Robert Bloch. The story - … read more

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  • horror
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22. The Bed of Shadows

By: Fred R. Farrow Jr.

3.13

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

. "The Bed of Shadows" is a short story by the little-known author, Fred R. Farrow, Jr. Having d… read more

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23. The Suicide In The Study

By: Robert Bloch

3.51

Format: None pages, None

First published in Weird Tales, June 1935 read more

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  • horror
"It is the fate of the genius to dwell alone."

-Robert Bloch, The Suicide In The Study

24. Hey, You Down There!

By: Harold Rolseth

4.09

Format: None pages, None

Short story about the communication between a famer's wife and the underground denziens as they dis… read more

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25. The Seeking Thing

By: Janet Hirsch

3.92

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

The Seeking Thing by Janet Hirsch This story came to us bearing a masculine-sounding pseudonym, … read more

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26. There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard

By: M.R. James

3.28

Format: 3 pages, ebook

Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. … read more

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  • horror

27. Lethe

By: Harold G. Shane

2.88

Format: 3 pages, None

A bizarre little story about the strange fascination of an old oil painting. read more

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  • horror
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28. Return to The Sabbath

By: Robert Bloch

4.15

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • horror

29. The Look

By: Maurice Level

3.43

Format: 5 pages, None

None read more

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30. Clutching Hands of Death

By: Harold Ward

3.86

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

A tale of terror—of a weird surgical operation performed in France — and a ghastly horror that stal… read more

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31. The Watcher at the Door (The Early Kuttner Volume Two)

By: Henry Kuttner

3.82

Format: 710 pages, Hardcover

TABLE OF Foreword by Robert A. Madle Introduction by Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D. We Are the Dead, Weir… read more

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The Picture in the House

H.P. Lovecraft

3.50

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H.P. Lovecraft

4.18

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Paul Ernst

3.00

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3.57

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