18 books like The Damned Thing

What to read after The Damned Thing — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The best ghost stories Daniel Defoe · 1919 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Daniel Defoe Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, Montague Rhodes James The Haunted and the Haunters, Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Silent Woman, Leopold Kompert The Man Who Went Too Far, E.F. Benson The Woman's Ghost Story, Algernon Blackwood The Phantom Rickshaw, Rudyard Kipling The Rival Ghosts, Brander Matthews The Damned Thing, Ambrose Bierce The Interval, Vincent… Shares Mountain Lions, Inquests, Coroners, Short Stories

The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 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 Mountain Lions, Inquests, Coroners, Short Stories

Campfire Chillers Edith M. Freeman · 1980 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Mountain Lions, Inquests, Coroners, Short Stories with this book. Shares Mountain Lions, Inquests, Coroners, Short Stories

Can Such Things Be? [24 stories] Ambrose Bierce · 1924 · ★ 3.8 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Mountain Lions, Inquests, Coroners, Short Stories with this book. Shares Mountain Lions, Inquests, Coroners, Short Stories

Short Stories Washington Irving · 1989 · ★ 4.0 · 299p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday /… Shares Mountain Lions, Inquests, Coroners, Short Stories

Great American Short Stories [48 stories] Washington Irving · 1984 · 699p · ≈ 23h · Challenging Anthology contains: The legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Rip Van Winkle -- The spectre bridegroom -- Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's daughter The fall of the House of Usher The gold bug -- Pit and the pendulum The cask of amontillad Captain Kidd's money -- Benito Cereno -- The lightning-rod man -- The diamond lens -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The £1,000,000… Shares Mountain Lions, Inquests, Coroners, Short Stories

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

Never Whistle at Night

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, Horror

The Angel of Indian Lake

The Angel of Indian Lake Stephen Graham Jones The “riotously entertaining” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and gruesome final installment in master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones’s acclaimed Indian Lake trilogy—the most lauded series in the history of horror novels—picks up four years after Don’t Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice, only to find the Lake Witch is… Shares Horror

Four Past Midnight

Four Past Midnight Stephen King The #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—four chilling novellas that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post).ONE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t.TWO PAST MIDNIGHT: Secret Window,… Shares Horror

Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization

Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization Nancy Holder When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro. Shares Horror

Desperation

Desperation Stephen King “The terror is relentless” (Publishers Weekly) in Stephen King’s #1 national bestseller about a little mining town, Desperation, that many will enter on their way to somewhere else. But getting out is not easy as it would seem…Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada, has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds… Shares Horror

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories, is the complete Edgar Allan Poe short story anthology, consisting of such classics as "Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in Rue Morgue", "The Pit and the Pendulum" and many more, 68 classic short stories in all. Poe is oft given credit for fathering the Gothic fiction story, as well as the modern detective… Shares Horror

What Feasts at Night

What Feasts at Night T. Kingfisher An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie BestsellerA Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2024A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award NomineeEnter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead.*A very special hardcover edition, featuring a foil stamp on the… Shares Horror

Last Days

Last Days Adam Nevill Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequences.When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult known as the Temple of the Last Days, it appears his prayers have been… Shares Horror

The Pretty Ones

The Pretty Ones Ania Ahlborn A terrifying e-novella from the bestselling author of Within These Walls, Brother, and The Bird Eater!New York, 1977. The sweltering height of the Summer of Sam. The entire city is gripped with fear, but all Nell Sullivan worries about is whether or not she’ll ever make a friend. The self-proclaimed “Plain Jane” does her best to fit in with the girls at work, but Nell’s brother, Barrett, assures… Shares Horror

Ravenous

Ravenous Sara Cooper Shares Horror with this book.

Throat Sprockets

Throat Sprockets Tim Lucas Shares Horror with this book.

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