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1. William Wilson
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.79
Format: 26 pages, ebook
"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspi… read more
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"Let me call myself, for the present, Willam Wilson"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet henceforward art thou also dead - dead to the world and its hopes. In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly t…"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
"Upon mankind at large the events of very early existence rarely leave in mature age any definite impression. All is gray shadow -- a weak and irregular remembrance -- and indistinct regathering of fe…"-Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
2. Mrs. Miniver
By: Jan Struther , Greer Garson
3.92
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed m… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person."-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's."-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye …"-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
"Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late sum…"-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver
3. The Empty House
By: Rosamunde Pilcher
3.85
Format: 249 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
4. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
5. 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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- gothic
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
6. Szewcy
By: None
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Centralnym zagadnieniem Szewcow (1934) uczynil Witkacy nadejscie nowego wspanialego swiata . W nauk… read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. The October Game
By: Ray Bradbury
3.45
Format: 304 pages,
A famous short story read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
8. The Body Snatcher
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more
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- classics
- short stories
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- horror
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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- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- supernatural
10. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was … read more
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12. The Breaking Point: Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.44
Format: 48 pages, ebook
"The appeal of romance and the clash of highly-charged emotions." --New York Herald-Tribune In this… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
13. The Vampyre; A Tale
By: John William Polidori
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more
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- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
14. La casa y el cerebro
By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arturo Agüero Herranz
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
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- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
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- short stories
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- supernatural
- ghost stories
16. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
By: Washington Irving
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Headless horsemen were staples of Northern European storytelling, featuring in German, Irish (e.g. … read more
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17. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
By: Algernon Blackwood
4.50
Format: 282 pages,
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18. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth
3.95
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
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20. 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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22. Weir of Hermiston
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Karl Miller
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
The Lord Justice-Clerk was a stranger in that part of the country; but his lady wife was known ther… read more
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23. 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
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25. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
By: Robert Browning , Kate Greenaway
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Robert Browning's famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for i… read more
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26. Chivalry
By: Neil Gaiman
4.21
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Another delightfully humorous and sweet fantasy graphic novel adaptation of a Neil Gaiman short sto… read more
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- fiction
"Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat."-Neil Gaiman, Chivalry
27. Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story
By: Amelia B. Edwards
3.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
What had become of him? And what lad was that going up the path by which I had just come-that tall … read more
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28. The Moonlit Road
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.48
Format: None pages, None
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- horror
29. 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
- short stories
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- 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
30. The House with the Brick-Kiln
By: E.F. Benson
3.49
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
The House with the Brick-Kiln By E. F. Benson Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, obl… read more
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- classics
- short stories
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31. The Ghost Of Christmas Eve
By: J.M. Barrie
3.14
Format: None pages, None
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