18 books like After the People Lights Have Gone Off

What to read after After the People Lights Have Gone Off — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

A Twist in the Tale Jeffrey Archer · 1988 · ★ 3.9 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories, A Twist in the Tale, will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget. No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer… Shares: Short Stories

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 Horror tales, Short Stories

In black and white Rudyard Kipling · 1880 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Tales of native life in India, in Oriental style. Shares: Short Stories

I Sing the Body Electric! Ray Bradbury · 1969 · ★ 4.1 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Eighteen stories with bizarre and whimsical themes which transcend time and space. Shares: Short Stories

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 Horror tales, Short Stories

Dark Forces Kirby McCauley · 1980 · ★ 3.8 · 551p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares: American Horror tales, Short Stories Shares: American Horror tales, Short Stories

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales Bret Harte · 1961 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Short Stories Shares: Short Stories

Christian short stories Mark Booth · 1984 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This New York Times bestselling work reimagines world history though the belief systems of Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Kabbalists, and others. They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history as we know it written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? In this groundbreaking and controversial work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling… Shares: Short Stories

Debits and credits Rudyard Kipling · 1926 · ★ 3.6 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Debits and Credits, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/debits/ . Shares: Short Stories

The ruling passion Henry van Dyke · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true… Shares: Short Stories

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 Horror tales, Short Stories

The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell · 1987 · ★ 4.3 · 1011p · ≈ 33h · Challenging pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice… Shares: American Horror tales, Short Stories

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Shares: Short Stories

Never Whistle at Night Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. · 2023 · ★ 3.8 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and… Shares: Short Stories

Fiction 100 James H. Pickering · 1988 · 1533p · ≈ 51h · Challenging The Grand inquisitor / Fëdor Dostoevski -- The Adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- King of the Bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Barn burning Dry September -- A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Road from Colonus / E.M. Forster -- Aura / Carlos Fuentes -- Watch time fly / Laura Furman -- A Very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel G.… Shares: American Horror tales, Short Stories

Van Bibber and Others Richard Harding Davis · 1892 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging In "Van Bibber and Others," Richard Harding Davis crafts a collection of short stories that encapsulate the spirited social dynamics of the turn of the 20th century. With his characteristic wit and keen observational prowess, Davis explores themes of class distinction, romance, and the complexities of human interaction within the vibrant backdrop of New York City. His prose is characterized by a… Shares: Short Stories

Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. In the Fitzgerald canon, it is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster," as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel The… Shares: Short Stories

South Sea Tales Jack London · 1911 · ★ 3.8 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was… Shares: Short Stories

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