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10 best books like The Haunted Looking Glass (Edward Gorey): The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories, Don't Look Now, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson, American Gothic Tales, Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN0684842572
These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other phenomena. Fine line-drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi enhance the mysterious and sometimes chilling mood.

The...
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
AuthorMarvin Kaye
ISBN0385185499
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 Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
AuthorMichael Cox
ISBN0192840851
With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this...
The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories
AuthorSaki
ISBN1590176243
The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro—better known as Saki—deftly, mercilessly, and hilariously skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite upper-class English society between the end of Queen Victoria’s reign and the beginning of World War I. Their heroes are clever,...
Don't Look Now
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN1590172884
An NYRB Original
Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though...
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
AuthorPhyllis Fraser
ISBN0679601287
When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in...
Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu
AuthorJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN0486204154
Distinguished Edwardian ghost story author M. R. James referred to his Victorian predecessor Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) as "the Master" of the sub-genre, an assessment echoed by many fans since then. E. F. Bleiler, one of the few serious 20th-century literary scholars to specialize in (instead...
The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
AuthorE.F. Benson
ISBN0786709804
United by a perfect chilling atmosphere and graceful literary style, these ghostly stories range from the horror of vampires, homicidal ghosts and monstrous spectral worms and slugs (appearing in the classic "Negotium Perambulans" and "And No Bird Sings") to the satire of humorous tales that poke...
American Gothic Tales
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0452274893
Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark...
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
AuthorM.R. James
ISBN0192837737
A selection of 21 stories, which also includes three stories that are not in the Collected Edition.

Canon Alberic's scrap-book --
The mezzotint --
Number 13 --
Count Magnus --
Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad --
The treasure of Abbot Thomas --
A School story...
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
AuthorChris Baldick
ISBN0192862197
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...
Ghost Stories
AuthorPeter Washington
ISBN0307269248
A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.

The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s...
Compulsory Games
AuthorRobert Aickman
ISBN1681371898
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described “strange stories” remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of...
Ghosts by Gaslight
AuthorJack Dann
ISBN0061999717
Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear!

Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts...
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural
AuthorHenry Mazzeo
Collection of 17 short stories.

1. The Lonesome Place by August Derleth c. 1947 by All-Fiction Field, Inc. and c. 1962 by August Derleth. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House.

2. In The Vault by H. P. Lovecraft c. 1932 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company, c. 1939, 1945 by August...
The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
AuthorDouglas Thin
ISBN1590170261
"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...
Late Victorian Gothic Tales
AuthorRoger Luckhurst
ISBN0192804804
The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked...
Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley
AuthorRobert Sheckley
ISBN1590174941
Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new...
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories
AuthorRichard Dalby
ISBN1844081591
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,...
American Supernatural Tales
AuthorS.T. Joshi
ISBN0143105043
As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation’s brightest literary lights, including...
The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark
AuthorMuriel Spark
ISBN0811215490
I aim to startle as well as please," Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhaps may not...
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
AuthorPeter Haining
ISBN0786719605
I know what you're thinking. For some reason, the publishers of this book didn't think literature would sell, so they geared the title and cover art to make you believe this was a collection of shocking-but-true ghost stories that would leave you with a good scare. So, if that was you're assumption, and...
The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories
AuthorCharles Dickens
ISBN0862991528
The Signalman (from Mugby Junction, 1866)

A Madman's Manuscript (from the Pickwick Papers, 1837)

The Bagman's Story (from the Pickwick Papers, 1837)

The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton (from the Pickwick Papers, 1837)

The Story of the Bagman's Uncle (from...
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