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10 best books like The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (Michael Cox): Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories, Gothic Tales, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Ghost Stories, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales, Tales of Unease, The Haunted Looking Glass, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories
AuthorJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN1853262188
Included in this volume of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's marvellous ghost stories are "Madam Crowl's Ghost"; "Squire Toby's Will"; "Dickon the Devil"; "The Child That Went with the Fairies"; "The White Cat of Drumgunniol"; "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street"; Ghost Stories of Chapelizod,...
Gothic Tales
AuthorElizabeth Gaskell
'Such whispered tales, such old temptations and hauntings, and devilish terrors'

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact;...
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...
Ghost Stories
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1840224223
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and...
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN0486229777
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...
Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales
AuthorVernon Lee
ISBN1551115786

Violet Paget (given-name of writer Vernon Lee) was a lesbian, a female dandy, a disciple of Walter Pater, and an acquaintance of Oscar Wilde, so it should not be a surprise that these four tales of the supernatural are filled with gorgeous descriptive passages (particularly of Italy ad it's art)...
Tales of Unease
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN1840224061

One of the impressive things about this book is that its worst stories, in spite of their trivial or absurd denouements, still offer a satisfying reading experience. Conan Doyle is a master of narrative prose and draws you into the world of his stories even when their essential conception may be...
The Haunted Looking Glass
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0940322684
The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied...
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...
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...
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
AuthorAl Sarrantonio
ISBN1402709757
Scared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr, and many others who know well how to manipulate...
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
AuthorAlan Ryan
ISBN0140124454
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is the definitive collection of short tales of those deadly bloodsuckers. Editor Alan Ryan includes a wide range of talents here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee.

Contents:
"Fragment of a Novel" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
"The Vampyre"...
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories
AuthorStefan R. Dziemianowicz
ISBN1402709730
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...
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...
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...
The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN1840225319
The figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable' Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able to create...
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...
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories
AuthorPeter Haining
ISBN0786716037
Expanded with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead--from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave...
The Dark: New Ghost Stories
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0765304457
Though there are a few small duds, the majority of the stories here were genuinely creepy.

Jeffrey Ford's "The Trentino Kid" starts things off on a slightly creepy note. It's about a guy who has frittered his youth away in what he thought was an easier route. He's regretting the choices he's made...
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,...
Great Ghost Stories
AuthorJohn Grafton
ISBN0486272702
Aficionados of supernatural fiction will take perverse pleasure in the hair-raising horrors recounted in these outstanding examples of the genre. Featuring a gallery of ghostly characters, forbidding landscapes, gloomy country manors, and occult occurrences, this spine-tingling collection...
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