12 Best horror books like Dickon el diablo y otros relatos extraordinarios by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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Dickon el diablo y otros relatos extraordinarios

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1818-1873), heredero de la tradicion gotica, nos ha legado una coleccion i…

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1. The Book of Werewolves

By: Sabine Baring-Gould

3.46

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

With the shocking histories of ten famous cases, this classic blends science, superstition, and fic… read more

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  • classics
  • horror
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2. The Third Man

By: Graham Greene

3.79

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter.… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
"I loved a man," she said. "I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man."

-Graham Greene, The Third Man

"Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth."

-Graham Greene, The Third Man

"For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew."

-Graham Greene, The Third Man

"tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, "I never quite understand why English people like teas …"

-Graham Greene, The Third Man

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3. Mendel el de los libros

By: Stefan Zweig , Berta Vias Mahou

4.00

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Escrito en 1929, Mendel el de los libros narra la trágica historia de un excéntrico librero de viej… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"لا ننتج الكتب إلا لكي نبقى على صلة بالبشر فيما وراء الموت فنزود بذلك عن أنفسنا ضد العدو الألد للحياة ، ضد الزمن الذي يمضي ، ضد النسيان"

-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros

"Los libros sólo se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y así defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvido"

-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros

"...avrei dovuto sapere che i libri si fanno solo per legarsi agli uomini al di là del nostro breve respiro e difendersi così dall'inesorabile avversario di ogni vita: la caducità e l'oblio."

-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros

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4. The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Jacob Weisman , None

3.73

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

This vibrant collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and sheds much ne… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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5. Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

By: Barbara Hambly

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When the Black Dragon seized the Deep of Ylferdun, young Gareth braved the far Winterlands to find … read more

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  • fiction
"Maggots from meat,’"

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

"There are real problems, not just money and power, in my own lands."

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

"She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted."

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

"Dragonsbane, they called him. Slayer of dragons. Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that."

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

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6. Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.59

Format: 320 pages,

Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence--and the patronag… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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7. Gothic Tales

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Laura Kranzler

3.81

Format: 4 pages,

'Such whispered tales, such old temptations and hauntings, and devilish terrors' Elizabeth Gaskell'… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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8. The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. 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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • horror
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10. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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11. Rain (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Dickon el diablo y otros relatos extraordinarios

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1818-1873), heredero de la tradicion gotica, nos ha legado una coleccion i… read more

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Dickon el diablo y otros relatos extraordinarios book and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Dickon el diablo y otros relatos extraordinarios

  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • ghost stories
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13. Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

By: Stefan Zweig , Ahmet Cemal

4.11

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

Stefan Zweig Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu (Brief einer Unbekannten) adlı uzun öyküsünü 1920'li yı… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"იმდენი ვიოცნებე,რომ, თუ შეიძლება ასე ითქვას ოცნება გადავცვითე..."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"... bir tel gibi gergindim ve varlığının ona her dokunuşuyla tınlıyordum."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"...el momento apasionado que se apaga sin dejar rastro en el humo del olvido."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"Je veux te dévoiler toute ma vie, cette vie qui n'a vraiment commencé que le jour où je t'ai connu."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

14. سینوهه

By: Mika Waltari , ذبیح‌الله منصوری

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptianoutsold e… read more

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15. Wieland, or, The Transformation

By: Charles Brockden Brown

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Wieland or the Transformation Genius and knowledge command respect; but superior geniu… read more

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16. Vera

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more

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17. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems

By: Stanley Appelbaum , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Great title poem plus "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," and twenty more sonnets, lyrics, and odes, includ… read more

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18. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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19. Adonais y Otros Poemas

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

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20. Gerald's Game

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gerald und Jessie Burlingame haben sich in ihr einsames Sommerhaus zuruckgezogen. Gerald mochte dem… read more

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21. Complete Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

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22. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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23. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.37

Format: 414 pages,

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more

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24. Il cavaliere inesistente

By: Italo Calvino

3.83

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Suor Teodora narra la storia di Agilulfo, cavaliere senza corpo, di cui vive solo l'armatura. Mentr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I ja także chcę tylko jednego: być kimś, kto wie, czego chce!"

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"[...] a życie to tylko tarzanie się między łóżkiem a trumną [...]"

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"Wojna to trochę rzeźnia, a trochę rutyna i nie ma co czepiać się zanadto szczegółów."

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzić tę wojnę, która w danej chwili się toczy, i co najwyżej pomyśleć jeszcze o następnej."

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

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25. My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

By: Thomas Ligotti , None

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all i…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world’s midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular att…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

26. The Omen

By: David Seltzer

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now updated, this classic tale of the antichrist who comes to Earth in the form of a young boy is a… read more

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27. Un lugar soleado para gente sombría

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.82

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Quien ose adentrarse en las páginas de este libro sentirá un escalofrío recorriéndole la espina dor… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Contact

By: Carl Sagan

4.15

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?"

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

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29. Remina

By: Junji Ito

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

I MET REMINA'S EYE. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Og… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Pew

By: Catherine Lacey

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

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31. La Couleur tombée du ciel

By: Gou Tanabe

4.20

Format: 185 pages, Simili-cuir

Affrontez l'horreur et la désolation de la Lande Foudroyée... Un projet de barrage promet d'engl… read more

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  • horror

18 must-read fiction books like Dickon el diablo y otros relatos extraordinarios by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Transform Your Habits

The Third Man

Graham Greene

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Mendel el de los libros

Stefan Zweig , Berta Vias Mahou

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Jacob Weisman , None

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)

Barbara Hambly

3.96

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16 must-read fiction books like My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror by Thomas Ligotti

Transform Your Habits

The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

Transform Your Habits

A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

Arthur Machen

3.69

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The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker

4.07

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