If you liked the classics plot in A School Story by M.R. James , here is a list of 14 books like this:
1. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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- classics
- short stories
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- horror
"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
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2. Casa tomada [Cuento]
By: Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan
3.95
Format: 5 pages, ebook
Cuento "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
3. The Tattooer
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
3.63
Format: 353 pages,
The Tattooer is the first publish work by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major authors in the moder… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
4. The Suicide Club
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
2.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Short story trilogy involving a club for people who wish to end their lives. The "Story of the Youn… read more
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- classics
- short stories
6. 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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- classics
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- classics
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8. La Mujer Alta / The Tall Woman - Bilingual Spanish-English Edition / Edición bilingüe español-inglés
By: Pedro Antonio de Alarcón , Tatiana Zelenska , Igor Kogan , None
3.00
Format: 144 pages,
Read the short story by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon as an enhanced dual language ebook. Tap on the und… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
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- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
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- ghost stories
10. Tobermory
By: Saki
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Tobermoryis one of Saki's (H. H. Munro) best known short stories. Toby is a cat that learns to spea… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
11. The Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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12. The Playground
By: Ray Bradbury
3.78
Format: 584 pages,
"The Playground" was part of the first hardcover edition of Ray Bradbury's legendary work Fahrenhei… read more
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14. 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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15. How Love Came to Professor Guildea
By: None
3.48
Format: 241 pages,
Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950) was an English journalist and novelist. He wrote lyrics for music… read more
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16. Enoch Soames
By: Max Beerbohm
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
It occurs to you that he was a fool? It didn't to me. I was young, and had not the clarity of judgm… read more
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17. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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18. Pomegranate Seed
By: Edith Wharton
3.81
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. Sh… read more
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19. 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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- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- 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
20. The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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21. The Moonlit Road
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.48
Format: None pages, None
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- horror
22. The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
By: Amelia B. Edwards
3.77
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Amelia B. Edwards is acknowledged as one of the best Victorian ghost story writers. She was one of … read more
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- classics
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- fiction
- horror
- ghost stories
"The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them."-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
"All tradition,’ said the Professor, ‘is a type of spiritual truth. The superstitions of the East, and the mythologies of the North—the beautiful Fables of old Greece, and the bold investigations of m…"-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
"The world,’ he said, ‘grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable all that resists expe…"-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
23. The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit
By: Giovanni Papini
3.94
Format: None pages, ebook
"– I am but a figure in a dream." read more
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- short stories
- fiction
24. Frritt-Flacc
By: Jules Verne
3.30
Format: None pages, None
Frritt-Flacc est une nouvelle fantastique de Jules Verne. read more
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- classics
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- horror
25. Split Second and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
26. Lord Mountdrago
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Book by Maugham, W. Somerset read more
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- classics
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27. Death and the Gardener
By: Jean Cocteau
3.57
Format: None pages, None
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- fiction
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- short stories
- fiction
29. An Injustice Revealed
By: Anonymous
3.33
Format: None pages, None
“An Injustice Revealed” by Anonymous is a short story from 6th century China. read more
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- short stories
- fiction
30. A Little Place off the Edgware Road
By: Graham Greene
3.28
Format: None pages, None
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- fiction
- horror
31. A Visitor from Down Under
By: L.P. Hartley
2.96
Format: None pages, None
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