18 books like Short Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter)

What to read after Short Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter) — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [12 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1965 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Daggers, Pendulums, Fear Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Daggers, Pendulums, Fear

The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories Leslie Shepard · 1977 · ★ 3.8 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Dickens, C. Captain Murderer. -- Poe, E.A. Pit and the Pendulum Lytton, Lord. The haunted and the haunters, or The house and the brain. -- Maupassant, G. de. The inn. -- Jerome, J.K. The dancing partner. -- Caterpillars. -- Stoker, B. The judge's house. -- Hodgson, W.H. The voice in the night. -- James, M.R. Count Magnus. -- Lovecraft, H.P. The festival. -- Hartley, L.P. The travelling grave.… Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American Short stories

Selected Prose and Poetry Edgar Allan Poe · 1950 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American Short stories Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American Short stories

Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) Walker, Hugh · 1914 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Scott, Sir Walter. The two drovers. Wandering Willie's tale. Lamb, Charles. The witch aunt. Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The snow image. The threefold destiny. Dr. Heidegger's experiment. Howe's masquerade. Disraeli, Benjamin. Ixion in heaven. Poe, E.A. Fall of the House of Usher. Pit and the Pendulum. Eleonora. Gaskell, Elizabeth C. The squire's story. Brown,… Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American Short stories

The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe · 1907 · ★ 3.9 · 33p · ≈ 1h · Challenging "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially… Shares: Spanish Inquisition, Pendulums, Fear, American Short stories

Representative Selections, With Introduction, Bibliography, And Notes Edgar Allan Poe · 1935 · 563p · ≈ 18h · Challenging 10 stories: Berenice Cask of Amontillado Eleonora Fall of the House of Usher Gold-Bug Landor's Cottage Ligeia Ms Found in a Bottle Murders of the Rue Morgue Pit and the Pendulum 36 poems: Tamerlane Song-"I saw thee on thy bridal day" Dreams Evening star A dream within a dream The happiest day, the happiest hour The lake: to -- Sonnet- to science Al Aaraaf Romance Alone To Helen-… Shares: Pendulums, Fear, American Short stories, American Horror tales

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories Alvin Schwartz · 1984 · ★ 4.4 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries. Shares: Fear, Horror stories, Short Stories, Horror

Werewolves Martin H. Greenberg · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A collection of fifteen stories by a variety of authors about the, sometime frightening, sometime humorous, phenomena of werewolves. Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, Horror, Children's fiction

The Sleepwalker Robert Lawrence Stine · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate One week after she starts her summer job on Fear Street with old Mrs. Cottler, Mayra Barnes begins to sleepwalk, always waking up outdoors in the middle of the night never knowing where she is! Things take a disturbing turn when Mayra discovers Mrs. Cottler may be a witch. Is the old woman casting a spell on Mayra to make her sleepwalk? More horrifying, Mayra is being followed by a menacing… Shares: Horror stories, Horror, Mystery, Children's fiction

In the Shadow of the Master Edgar Allan Poe · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Few have crafted stories as haunting as those by Edgar Allan Poe. Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from beloved authors, including T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Sara Paretsky, and Joseph Wambaugh, among others, on how Poe has changed their life and work.Michael Connelly recounts the inspiration he… Shares: American Horror tales, American literature, Short Stories, Horror

The Best Ghost Stories Ever Christopher Krovatin · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The empty house / by Algernon Blackwell The monkey's paw / by W.W. Jacobs The legend of Sleepy Hollow / by Washington Irving Masque of the Red Death / by Edgar Allan Poe The judge's house / by Bram Stoker A ghost story / by Jerome K. Jerome The yellow wallpaper / by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The romance of certain old clothes / by Henry James The story of Clifford House / by Anonymous. Shares: Daggers, American Horror tales, Horror stories, Short Stories

Psychomania Stephen Jones · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 533p · ≈ 17h · Moderate John Llewellyn Probert: Prologue: Screams in the Dark Joe R. Lansdale: I Tell You It's Love Reggie Oliver: The Green Hour Steve Rasnic Tem: The Secret Laws of the Universe Basil Copper: The Recompensing of Albano Pizar David A. Sutton: Night Soil Man Brian Hodge: Let My Smile Be Your Umbrella Scott Edelman: The Trembling Living Wire John Llewellyn Probert: Case Conference #1 Robert Silverberg:… Shares: American Horror tales, American literature, Short Stories, Horror

Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries Barrett Harper Clark · 1922 · 1076p · ≈ 35h · Challenging The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous -- Setna and the magic book / Anonymous -- Eumæus' : talk / Homer -- The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop -- King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus -- Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes -- The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid -- The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus… Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

Selected Stories and Poems [10 stories, 12 poems] Edgar Allan Poe · 1967 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

The best horror stories Robert Bloch · 1990 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Premature Burial / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski… Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [13 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1909 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

Sterling Stories Yvonne Collioud Sisko · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Salvation / Langston Hughes -- Ah Bah's money / Catherine Lim -- Cranes / Hwang Sunwon -- Bone girl / Joseph Bruchac -- The hockey sweater / Roch Carrier -- Strong temptations -- strategic movements -- the innocents beguiled / Mark Twain -- Marlene's adventures / Anita Endrezze -- Trail of the green blazer / R.K. Narayan -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin… Shares: American Horror tales, Horror stories, American literature, Short Stories

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