7 must-read horror books like The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe

Cover of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

By: Ann Radcliffe

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Ann Radcliffe's first novel is set in the Middle Ages against the melancholy beauty of mountains an…

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Cover of The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library) by Virginia Woolf

1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

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2. Kenilworth

By: Walter Scott

3.68

Format: 541 pages, Hardcover

In this exciting novel, the legend of Amy Robsart and her secret marriage to the Earl of Leicester … read more

Similar categories in Walter Scott's Kenilworth book and Ann Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It is ill arguing against anything from its misuse."

-Walter Scott, Kenilworth

"I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake."

-Walter Scott, Kenilworth

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3. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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4. The Old English Baron

By: Clara Reeve , James Trainer

3.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend… read more

Similar categories in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron book and Ann Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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5. Red Pottage

By: Mary Cholmondeley

3.83

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Mary Cholmondeley wrote at the beginning of the 20th century. She spent most of her life in Englan… read more

Similar categories in Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage book and Ann Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, m…"

-Mary Cholmondeley, Red Pottage

"People, like Sybell, believe one can only sympathize with what one has experienced. That is why they are always saying, 'as a mother,' or 'as a wife.' If that were true the world would have to get on…"

-Mary Cholmondeley, Red Pottage

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6. The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy

3.69

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitor… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major book and Ann Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Grey Woman

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

The Grey Woman is a gothic novella written by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is set in the mid-19th c… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
Cover of The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Anne Doody, Margaret Dalziel, Duncan Isles

8. The Female Quixote

By: Charlotte Lennox , Margaret Anne Doody , Margaret Dalziel , Duncan Isles

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabe… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, None, John       Bowen

9. Barnaby Rudge

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , None , John Bowen

3.72

Format: None pages,

Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspe… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell

10. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell

4.14

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for sh…"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

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11. The Hand of Ethelberta

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Hardy's The Hand of Ethelberta book and Ann Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

  • classics
  • fiction
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12. Roman Fever

By: Edith Wharton

3.33

Format: 170 pages,

While visiting Rome with their daughters, two middle-aged women reminisce about their romantic riva… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Patricia Ingham

13. Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders book and Ann Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

  • classics
  • fiction
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15. Vathek

By: William Beckford

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
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17. The Well-Beloved

By: Thomas Hardy

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set on the Isle of Slingers, this novel follows the exploits of Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor who fa… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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18. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

By: Ann Radcliffe

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Ann Radcliffe's first novel is set in the Middle Ages against the melancholy beauty of mountains an… read more

Similar categories in Ann Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne book and Ann Radcliffe's The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

  • gothic
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
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19. Daphnis and Chloe

By: Paul Turner , Longus

3.68

Format: 593 pages, Paperback

A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby b… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

20. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

By: Paula Byrne

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne takes a highly original approach in this landmark biograp… read more

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21. Desperate Remedies

By: Thomas Hardy , None

3.86

Format: 256 pages,

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22. Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens , Mark Ford

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I shall never regret doing as I have--never, if I starve or beg in consequence' When Nicholas Nick… read more

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23. Two on a Tower

By: Thomas Hardy

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful y… read more

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24. The Beetle

By: Richard Marsh

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The Beetle' (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of neither god nor man," with … read more

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25. 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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26. Castle Rackrent

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackren… read more

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27. The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more

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28. A Laodicean: A Story of Today

By: Thomas Hardy , J.H. Stape

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having accepted the suit of Captain, Paula discovers that his illegitimate son has hatched a plot a… read more

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29. Ivanhoe

By: Walter Scott

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more

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30. The Best of Richard Matheson

By: Richard Matheson

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th ce… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott

31. A Legend of Montrose

By: Walter Scott

3.51

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"They say that a lady’s mind is always expressed in her postscript, so I would have you think that the most important part of your commission lies in what I have last said to you."

-Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose

"Your lordship’s servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear’s skin before he has hunted him."

-Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose

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