6 must-read gothic books like The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All…

"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

If you liked the gothic plot in The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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2. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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3. Araby

By: James Joyce

3.65

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."

-James Joyce, Araby

"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"

-James Joyce, Araby

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4. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Robert Lanier

4.17

Format: 251 pages,

The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, hav… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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5. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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6. Lamb to the Slaughter

By: Roald Dahl

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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  • classics
  • school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
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7. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

8. Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more

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  • classics
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  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • short stories
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  • horror

10. The Monkey's Paw (Oxford Bookworms)

By: W.W. Jacobs , Diane Mowat

3.37

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were dra… read more

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11. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more

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12. Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more

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13. The Most Dangerous Game

By: Richard Connell

3.94

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more

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  • high school
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"But you can’t mean—"

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."

-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

14. The Veldt

By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more

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15. The Gift of the Magi

By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger

4.11

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

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16. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • high school
  • gothic
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

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17. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • 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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18. The Scarlet Ibis

By: Philippe Dumas , James Hurst

3.84

Format: 36 pages, Library Binding

Our narrator, a grown man, tells us about his memories of Doodle, his younger brother. We jump into… read more

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"Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!"

-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis

"All of us must have something or someone to be proud of."

-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis

"Oh yes you can, Doodle,' I said. 'All you got to do is try."

-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis

"There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ..."

-Philippe Dumas, The Scarlet Ibis

19. The Necklace

By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley

3.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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20. THE FUCKING DEATH IS FEMINIST

By: Marcos Orowitz

4.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The English version of this work is missing read more

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21. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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