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The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories

10 best books like The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (Michael Sims): Silas Marner, The African Queen, American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest, The Monster of Elendhaven, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion, Wylding Hall, The Two Destinies (Pocket Classics), Who Sank the Boat?, East Lynne

Silas Marner
AuthorGeorge Eliot
George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner...
The African Queen
AuthorC.S. Forester
ISBN0316289108
A classic story of adventure and romance - the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart

A fast-moving tale and a very good yarn...Mr Forester again and again proves himself a master of suspense - New York Times Book Review

As World War...
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
AuthorHannah Nordhaus
ISBN0062249215
The award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper's Lament attempts to discover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia--whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe--in this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West.

The...
The Monster of Elendhaven
AuthorJennifer Giesbrecht
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats....
The Seven Dials Mystery
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0007122594
Gerry Wade é por todos conhecido como um inveterado dorminhoco. Aquando de uma festa organizada em Chimneys, o seu grupo de amigos decide pregar-lhe uma partida memorável. Na cidade vizinha compram oito relógios despertadores, com os quais estão decididos a sobressaltá-lo durante o sono....
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion
AuthorGerard Way
ISBN1506711421
With a new Netflix series, the best-selling graphic novels return--with the original creators!

Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007...
Wylding Hall
AuthorElizabeth Hand
ISBN1504007182
When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group’s...
The Two Destinies (Pocket Classics)
AuthorWilkie Collins
ISBN0750910461
I believe, after reading the Wikipedia entry for Wilkie Collins, that I have approached his work from the wrong end. I had previously read The Law and the Lady, Miss or Mrs.?, and (most recently) The Moonstone. Today I read that his work from the 1860's was his best (and The Moonstone was the last written...
Who Sank the Boat?
AuthorPamela Allen
A charmingly funny read-aloud that asks an important question: "Who sank the boat?"

Beside the sea, there once lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. They were good friends, and one warm, sunny morning, for no particular reason, they decided to go for a row in the bay. Do...
East Lynne
AuthorMrs. Henry Wood
ISBN0192804626
When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution.

Ellen Wood played upon the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and...
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN1453744517
At last, America’s Master Storyteller joins the ranks of Delphi Classics’ scholarly collections. This is the COMPLETE WORKS of the great literary giant Edgar Allan Poe. Why buy any other Kindle version, which will have texts missing? This is the only eBook available with every tale - even the very...
Death in the Stocks
AuthorGeorgette Heyer
ISBN0755108876
The moonlight shone on the quiet village green when an English bobbie returning from night patrol finds on a man's two motionless feet stuck through the holes of a pair of stocks. He identifies the corpse in evening dress immediately. Wealthy Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and when he was found...
The Conception of Terror: Tales Inspired by M. R. James - Volume 1
AuthorM.R. James
A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James.

Casting the Runes - adapted by Stephen Gallagher

When academic Jo Harrington (Anna Maxwell Martin) is sent a paper - The Truth of Alchemy, by Anton Karswell - for peer review, she pulls no punches. It has no place in a serious...
Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark
AuthorStephanie K. Smith
Listening Length: 3 hours and 8 minutes

Tourmaline Larou lives an idyllic life of learning by day and partying by night. An aspiring poet, her future promises nothing less than brilliance.

Then, Vignette Stonemoss walks through the door, and Tourmaline’s world is upended.

As...
The Widow's House
AuthorCarol Goodman
ISBN0062562630
This chilling novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages blends the gothic allure of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca and the crazed undertones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper with the twisty, contemporary edge of A.S.A. Harrison’s The Silent...
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