11 Best short stories books like The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) by Charlotte Riddell

Cover of The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) by Charlotte Riddell

The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell)

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.62

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

The Victorians loved a good ghost story and the journals of the time would publish special Christma…

"Some people do not believe in ghosts."

-Charlotte Riddell, The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell)

If you liked the short stories plot in The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) by Charlotte Riddell , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Edgar Allan Poe's William Wilson book and Charlotte Riddell's The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell)

  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"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

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2. The Old Nurse's Story

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story

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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
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4. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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5. Lost Hearts

By: M.R. James , Danko Krilić

3.60

Format: 332 pages, ebook

The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much … read more

Similar categories in M.R. James's Lost Hearts book and Charlotte Riddell's The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell)

  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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6. 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
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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7. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Alan Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave new world of the 20th … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

10. Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)

By: Raymond E. Feist

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the maste… read more

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11. The Upper Berth

By: F. Marion Crawford

4.09

Format: None pages,

Every now and again, the smell sea water permeates the air, as if the cabin had been flooded and ne… read more

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12. 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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13. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.50

Format: 282 pages,

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Cover of Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth, #14) by M.C. Beaton

14. Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth, #14)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.80

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER: A Hamish Macbeth … read more

Similar categories in M.C. Beaton's Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth, #14) book and Charlotte Riddell's The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell)

  • fiction
"Husbands are always angry, that's their nature. And the nature of us women, is not to pay a blind bit of notice."

-M.C. Beaton, Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth, #14)

15. The Red Lodge

By: H. Russell Wakefield

4.27

Format: 197 pages, ebook

H. R. Wakefield was one of the most popular ghost-story writers of the early 20th century. 'The Red… read more

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16. 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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17. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

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  • gothic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story by Amelia B. Edwards

18. 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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) by Charlotte Riddell

19. The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell)

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.62

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

The Victorians loved a good ghost story and the journals of the time would publish special Christma… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Riddell's The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) book and Charlotte Riddell's The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell)

  • gothic
  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Some people do not believe in ghosts."

-Charlotte Riddell, The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell)

Cover of Winter Ghosts: Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural) by Amelia B. Edwards

20. Winter Ghosts: Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.82

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Set during the Christmas period, these atmospheric Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories by masters… read more

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  • classics
  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of More Winter Ghosts: A Further Collection of Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas by Black Heath Editions

21. More Winter Ghosts: A Further Collection of Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas

By: Black Heath Editions

3.82

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

A further selection of vintage ghost and horror stories by masters of the genre. Set during the Chr… read more

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14 Top fiction books like The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) by Charlotte Riddell

Transform Your Habits

William Wilson

Edgar Allan Poe

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Empty House

Rosamunde Pilcher

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Dead

James Joyce

3.99

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Transform Your Habits

Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue (Poor Relation, #5)

Marion Chesney

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Sir Philip's Folly (Poor Relation, #4)

Marion Chesney

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Miss Tonks Turns to Crime (Poor Relation, #2)

M.C. Beaton , Marion Chesney

4.10

Transform Your Habits

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Marion Chesney

4.10

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