The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
8 best books like The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Arthur Machen): The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Shiver: Selected Stories, Fireweed, Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery, Cristallisation Secrète
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1587156911 |
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are...
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0486229777 |
A woman of snow ... a midnight caller keeping his promise ... forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic ... enchanted houses ... these are the beings and ideas that flood through this collection of ghost stories by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Altogether 13 stories, gathered from the entire...
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679725229 |
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time,...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0143107763 |
Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced...
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1421596938 |
A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.
This volume includes nine of Junji Ito’s best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl’s window… After an idol...
| Author | Jill Paton Walsh |
| ISBN | 0140305602 |
I was ten when I read this book for the first time. It was recommended for me by my elementary school librarian, who knew I was into military history at the time, and who in hindsight was very clever to use this book's setting during the London Blitz to get me to read a story I otherwise never would have. Smart...
Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery
An intimate, urgent account of doctor burnout and life as a psychiatrist from bestselling author Joanna Cannon
"A few years ago, I found myself in A&E.
I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well, or even changed my...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
