Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales

8 best books like Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales (Nathaniel Hawthorne): Child of God, Much Ado About Nothing, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, The World of Lore: Dreadful Places, Black American Short Stories, The World of Odysseus, War and the Iliad

Child of God

Author	Cormac McCarthy
ISBN	0679728740

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic...

Much Ado About Nothing

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743482751

Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.

CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?

HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!

BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.

BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more...

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき

Author	Junji Ito
ISBN	4091858163

Wow, what a macabre masterpiece. This was gory and grotesque and very disturbing and at the same time the story is amazing and I could hardly put it down. It was amazing and it had boundless imagination. The story kept getting more and more hopeless until the bitter end. I mean this really is a horror story,...

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Author	Erich Maria Remarque
ISBN	0151904707

After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks’ leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes.

Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents...

The World of Lore: Dreadful Places

Author	Aaron Mahnke
ISBN	1524798029

Captivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories from the podcast Lore--now a streaming television series--including "Echoes," "Withering Heights," and "Behind Closed Doors" as well as rare material.

Sometimes you walk into a room, a building,...

Black American Short Stories

Author	John Henrik Clarke
ISBN	0374523541

The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original—from Charles...

The World of Odysseus

Author	Moses I. Finley
ISBN	1590170172

The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history...

War and the Iliad

Author	Simone Weil
ISBN	1590171454

War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.

Simone Weil’s The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works—an...