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5 best books like The Fog Horn (Ray Bradbury): Who Goes There?, Dagon, Nightfall, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Body Snatcher

Who Goes There?
AuthorJohn W. Campbell Jr.
ISBN0982332203
"Who Goes There?" The novella that formed the basis of "The Thing" is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal...
Dagon
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
"Dagon" is the second story of the writer H.P.Lovecraft, written in 1917 and published ,for the first time, in 1919. The work takes its title from the mythological God Dagon, and tells a disturbing story, happened years before to a man with the obsession of suicide. Before throwing himself from the window...
Nightfall
AuthorIsaac Asimov
Of the six suns, only Beta is left in the sky. Do you see it?”

The question was rather unnecessary. Beta was almost at zenith, its
ruddy light flooding the landscape to an unusual orange as the brilliant
rays of setting Gamma died. Beta was at aphelion. It was small; smaller than
Theremon...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN1594561788
This is one of the eeriest and most morbid stories I ever read from Poe. The narrator describes a mesmeric experiment on a dying man named Valdemar. The person acts in a peculiar way when in a mesmeric trance induced in the moment of death. What does the hypnotist do and how long can the mesmeric condition...
The Body Snatcher
AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
ISBN1860920012
”To bodies that had been laid in earth, in joyful expectation of a far different awakening, there came that hasty, lamplit, terror-haunted resurrection of the spade and mattock.”



A group of friends have a habit of getting together in a hotel tavern to drink and tell tall tales,...
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