The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories

10 best books like The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (Charles Dickens): Me, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Pride of Baghdad, Queer, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, The Wendigo, Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature

Me
AuthorElton John
ISBN1250147603
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.

Christened...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
AuthorJonathan Safran Foer
ISBN0374280002
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
Pride of Baghdad
AuthorBrian K. Vaughan
ISBN1401203140
From one of America’s most critically acclaimed graphic novel writers – inspired by true events, a startlingly original look at life on the streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War. In his award-winning work on Y THE LAST MAN and EX MACHINA (one of Entertainment Weekly’s 2005 Ten Best Fiction titles),...
Queer
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN0330300164
I have a passionate hatred for William Burroughs. I think even his fans have to concede that he's a degenerate piece of shit. I admit my prior experience with him consists of 5 pages of Naked Lunch and a couple biographies of various sorts, none of which fail to mention the pedophilia and him murdering his...
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
AuthorSally Mann
ISBN0316247766
A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.

In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed...
The Wendigo
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN1406905925
a rainy, windy, chilly night with nothing to do but gaze lovingly at my overly full bookcases. so why not reread one of my favorite classic horror novellas? this one is about, wait for it, The Wendigo and its prey du jour (du nuit?): some hunters and their guides. but is the story really about this so-called...
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...
AuthorRussell Edson
ISBN0932440657


Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
AuthorStefan R. Dziemianowicz
ISBN0760701415
The horror short-short isn't easy to master, but more than 100 of the genre's critically acclaimed authors & hottest up-&-comers have taken a stab at it in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, an anthology that contains a short tale for every day of the year. Steve Rasnic Tem, Wm F. Nolan, Tom Piccirilli,...
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
AuthorAlberto Manguel
ISBN0517552698
This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, and many, many more....
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0670887250
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.
Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.
Introductions at the beginning of...
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