16 books like 21st Century Dead

What to read after 21st Century Dead — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The wind in the rose-bush Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · 1903 · ★ 4.2 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Six ghost stories from small-town 19th century America. Shares: American Paranormal fiction, American Fantasy fiction, American Short stories

Otherworld Nights Kelley Armstrong · 2014 · ★ 4.7 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Rare and never-before published short stories featuring fan favorites from the New York Times bestselling series It's been more than ten years since Kelley Armstrong began the Otherworld series and drew legions of fans to a realm roamed by witches, werewolves, necromancers, vampires, and half-demons. Many of the novels have become bestselling favorites, but not all of the Otherworld adventures… Shares: American Fantasy fiction, Amerikanisches Englisch

Conjure Wife Fritz Leiber · 1953 · ★ 3.7 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Professor Norman Saylor considered magic nothing more than superstition. Then he learned that his wife was a practicing sorceress. But he still refuses to accept the truth: that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, magic is a matter of life and death; and that unbeknownst to men, every woman knows it"--Cover p. [4]. Shares: American Paranormal fiction, American Horror tales

The Cleft and Other Odd Tales Gahan Wilson · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Collection of stories and drawings by Gahan Wilson. Shares: American Fantasy fiction, American Horror tales

Death's Excellent Vacation Charlaine Harris · 2010 · ★ 3.7 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Shares: American Paranormal fiction, American Short stories

Unnatural acts Kevin J. Anderson · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Another full caseload for the zombie detective . . ."  in this "inventive" urban fantasy novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews).   To Be Dead Or Not To Be Dead   In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up—to work the night shift. But zombie detective… Shares: Amerikanisches Englisch, Zombies

Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce · 1909 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Ambrose Bierce’s second major short story collection, Can Such Things Be? collected nearly all of Bierce’s supernatural horror stories. Bierce himself was a skeptic of the supernatural, having once written a satirical essay “The Clothing of Ghosts,” in which he insisted that “The materialized spook appealing to our senses for recognition of his ghostly character must authenticate himself… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Stephen King · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

If It Bleeds Stephen King · 2020 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to the No. 1 bestseller THE OUTSIDER. News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin. Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive -… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

Black Tide Rising Gary Poole · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Moderate TOP NAME WRITERS ENTER THE REALM OF JOHN RINGO'S BLACK TIDE RISING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE SERIES! A collection of all-original stories set in the Black Tide Rising series of novels created by multiple New York Times best-selling author John Ringo Stories by John Ringo, Eric Flint, John Scalzi & Dave Klecha, Sarah Hoyt, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael Z. Williamson and more. The news that humanity had… Shares: American Horror tales, Zombies

Nightmare Hour - Time for Terror Robert Lawrence Stine · 1999 · ★ 4.1 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "These are my scariest stories ever," says R. L. Stine, "because I wrote them at the Nightmare Hour." You know when that is...it's when the lights fade, the real world spins into shadow--and the cold, moonlit world of evil dreams takes over your mind.What horror awaits a boy who has to spend Halloween in the hospital? How do you outwit a ghost who wants your skin? Why is Nightmare Inn the most… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

The Elements of the Short Story Edward Everett Hale, Jr. · 1915 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving Rip Van Winkle, by W. Irving Irving as a story writer The great stone face, by N. Hawthorne Ethan Brand, by N. Hawthorne Hawthorne as a story writer Fall of the House of Usher, by E. A. Poe The murders in the Rue Morgue, by E. A. Poe Poe as a story writer The diamond lens, by F.-J. O'Brien The man without a country, by E. E. Hale The outcasts of Poker… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

A Book of Short Stories Stuart Pratt Sherman · 1914 · ★ 3.6 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The minister's black veil. Ethan Brand. Edgar Allan Poe: Fall of the House of Usher, the gold-bug. Charles Dickens: The signalman. Frank Stockton: The lady, or the tiger. Thomas Hardy: The three strangers. Robert Louis Stevenson: Will o' the mill, The Sire de Maletroit's door. Sir James Matthew Barrie: The courting of T'nowhead's… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

American Short Stories Charles Sears Baldwin · 1904 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Pt. 1. The tentative period: Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. Austin W. Peter Rugg, the missing man. Hall, J. The French village. Pike, A. the inroad of the Nabajo. Pt. 2. The period of the new form: Hawthorne, N. The white old maid. Longfellow, H.W. The notary of Périgueux. Poe, E.A. Fall of the House of Usher Willis, N.P. The inlet of peach blossoms. Kirkland, C.M.S. The bee-tree. O'Brien,… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1983 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

The Gold-Bug and Other Tales Edgar Allan Poe · 1900 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Adventure of One Hans Pfaal Angel of the Odd Balloon Hoax Black Cat Business Man Cask of Amontillado Descent into the Maelstrom Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Fall of the House of Usher Gold-Bug Imp of the Perverse Island of the Fay Loss of Breath Man That Was Used Up Masque of the Red Death Mellonta Tauta Mesmeric Revelation Ms. Found in a Bottle Oval Portrait Pit and the Pendulum Premature… Shares: American Short stories, American Horror tales

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