Ghost Stories
10 best books like Ghost Stories (Peter Washington): Doorbells at Dusk, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time, 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, Strange Tales, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories, The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
Halloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their first taste of terror, the discovery and overcoming of fears. For those who find they love a good scare, that first taste can grow into a voracious appetite.
That might be why you’re looking at this...
| Author | Marvin Kaye |
| ISBN | 0385185499 |
I savored these stories and poems, reading them over the course of several years, whenever it was late at night, and I was in the mood for some good horror.
The Professor's Teddy Bear, by Theodore Sturgeon, is possibly my favorite short story ever, and I have read it many times. The other...
The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time
These really are some of the best horror stories of all time. This is a collection of classic horror tales, the kind of stories that get into your head. These stories don’t have to use the shock factor or blood and gore. These stories creep and crawl and slither across your bedroom floor. They are truly...
| Author | Stefan R. Dziemianowicz |
| ISBN | 1402709730 |
Be afraid, be very afraid: really scary things can come in small packages, and these 100 frightening little tales offer big chills and thrills. They represent more than 150 year's worth of writing, and include the greats: H.P. Lovecraft ("The Terrible Old Man"), Ambrose Bierce ("The Stranger"), Lafcadio...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 1840225327 |
Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings. This collection presents the...
| Author | H.G. Wells |
| ISBN | 0307593843 |
Gathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novels from the founding father of science fiction.
The first great novel to imagine time travel, The Time Machine (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth’s last moments—and...
| Author | Chris Baldick |
| ISBN | 0192862197 |
The Gothic tale has been with us for over two hundred years, but this collection is the first to illustrate the continuing strength of this special fictional tradition from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Gothic fiction is generally identified with Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto...
| Author | M.R. James |
| ISBN | 0141196017 |
M. R. James is the master of the English ghost story, whose tales are inhabited not by ethereal spirits, but by terrifying, palpable forces of evil. In these four stories figures appear in paintings, demonic voices are heard, books awaken ancient horrors - and ordinary objects and situations are transformed...
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories
| Author | Peter Haining |
| ISBN | 1854875361 |
An outstanding collection of literary ghost stories includes 30 of the best examples of the genre, featuring contributions from Jack London, Agatha Christie, John Steinbeck, Muriel Spark, Daphne du Maurier, William Trevor, Mary Higgins Clark, and others.
Contents:
The third person...
The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
| Author | Douglas Thin |
| ISBN | 1590170261 |
"The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain--a malign and particular suspension...
| Author | Richard Dalby |
| ISBN | 1844081591 |
Gathering together deliciously chilling tales from the three highly-acclaimed volumes of Virago ghost stories, this collection features stories by A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Charlotte Brontë, Antonia Fraser, Penelope Lively, Ruth Rendell, Edith Wharton, and many more. Here lost loves,...
“There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep
It is not an easy task to accomplish, to create a book of almost 800 pages which can keep you glued...
| Author | Glen Hirshberg |
| ISBN | 0786712554 |
In the title story of this unique collection a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. "Dancing Men" depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory, when a boy visits his deranged...
| Author | Diana Secker Tesdell |
| ISBN | 0307267172 |
Now joining Everyman’s Library—the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works—is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure.
Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction...
| Author | Barry Moser |
| ISBN | 0811854140 |
Goose bumps along your arms, the hairs rising on the back of your neck, these are the sure signs you're immersed in a great scary story. Featuring classic stories by such timeless authors as Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and H.G. Wells, this...
| Author | Peter H. Aykroyd |
| ISBN | 1605298751 |
Peter Aykroyd spent his childhood watching his family’s parlor séances through the crack of a basement door. Here, for the first time, Aykroyd tells the strange and delightful story that inspired his son, Dan, to make the mega-hit, Ghostbusters. Part history, part family legend, A History...
The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre
| Author | Ambrose Bierce |
| ISBN | 0141038810 |
A little boy is lost in the wilderness with nothing but his wooden toy knife to protect him, when he comes across a ghastly spectacle of unspeakable terror. Two travellers caught in a storm one night take shelter in a deserted plantation house and discover a room filled with the dead. An old man suspected...
Horror Story and Other Horror Stories
| Author | Robert Boyczuk |
| ISBN | 0980941032 |
i guess i am someone who reads short stories. it's what i do now. so, to celebrate the short, i am going to make this review a series of pithy one-sentence... summaries? commentaries? of/on each story. this is not me being lazy; it is actually quite difficult. especially with stories like these, which...
| Author | Michael Sims |
| ISBN | 1620408058 |
Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula's Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories...
(based upon a radio play called "Vampirella")
A virginal English soldier, traveling through Romania by bicycle, finds himself in a deserted village. He comes across a mansion inhabited by a vampiress who survives by enticing young men into her bedroom and feeding on them. She intends to feed...
| Author | Leo Braudy |
| ISBN | 0300203802 |
An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them
Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0765376806 |
The Doll Collection is exactly what it sounds like: a treasured toy box of all-original dark stories about dolls of all types, including everything from puppets and poppets to mannequins and baby dolls.
Featuring everything from life-sized clockwork dolls to all-too-human Betsy Wetsy-type...
