The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

7 best books like The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories (Nathaniel Hawthorne): A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience, I Am Legend and Other Stories, The Hellbound Heart, The Purloined Letter, The Nether World, Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, The Three Clerks

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

Author

Emerson W. Baker

Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck...

I Am Legend and Other Stories

Author

Richard Matheson

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades...

The Hellbound Heart

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0061002828

Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror...

The Purloined Letter

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0886820618

Dans cette nouvelle, le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre de la plus haute importance a été volée dans le boudoir royal. Le moment précis du vol et le voleur, D..., sont connus du policier, mais celui-ci est dans l'incapacité d'accabler...

The Nether World

Author	George Gissing
ISBN	0192837672

The Nether World (1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dramatic, sometimes violent tale of man's caustic vision shaped by the bitter personal experience of poverty. This tale of intrigue depicts life among the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers,...

Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

Author	Daniel Mendelsohn
ISBN	1590176073

Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets& Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings...

The Three Clerks

Author	Anthony Trollope
ISBN	0192818295

Trollope begins in his usual way by dedicating one of several initial chapters to establishing his characters and their situation. My first reaction while reading these first half dozen chapters is that this relatively early novel was not going to be as good as his later ones, but this from the introduction...