18 books like The Gold-Bug and Other Tales

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Chilling Horror Short Stories Laura Bulbeck · 2015 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Ecdysis / Rebecca J. Allred -- Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Beyond the wall / Ambrose Bierce -- Mirror's keeper / Michael Bondies -- The watcher by the threshold / John buchan -- The dying art / Glen Damien Campbell -- The yellow sign / Robert W. Chambers -- Breach / Justin Coates -- The dead smile / F. Marion Crawford -- The screaming scull / F. Marion Crawford -- The child's story… Shares Premature Burial, Taphophobia, Crypts, Berths

Visions of Poe [16 stories, 8 poems] Edgar Allan Poe · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A selection of tales and poems, visually interpreted with photographs by Simon Marsden, capturing the world as Poe envisaged it. 16 stories: Masque of the Red Death Mesmeric Revelation William Wilson The oval portrait -- The angel of the odd -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- Black Cat Berenice Fall of the House of Usher The sphinx -- Imp of the Perverse Metzengerstein… Shares Premature Burial, Taphophobia, Crypts, Berths

Derniers Contes Edgar Allan Poe · 2004 · 153p · ≈ 5h · Moderate La vie d'Edgar Allan Poe n'est plus a raconter: ses derniers traducteurs francais, s'inspirant des travaux definitifs de son nouvel editeur J.H. Ingram, l'ont eloquemment venge des calomnies trop facilement acceptees sur la foi de son ami et executeur testamentaire, Rufus Griswold. En depit de ses mensonges, Edgar Poe reste pour nous et restera pour la posterite, de plus en plus admiratrice de… Shares Unconsciousness, Phobias, Catalepsy, Satire

The Premature Burial Edgar Allan Poe · 2013 · ★ 3.8 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Light "The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses concern about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest. ---------- This story also contained in: Best Horror Stories Comedies and Satires Complete Tales &… Shares Unconsciousness, Phobias, Catalepsy, Horror

Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. Includes the following stories: “Where I Live” “Harrison Bergeron” “Who Am I This… Shares American Short stories, American literature, Short Stories

Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) Walker, Hugh · 1914 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate 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… Shares Catalepsy, American Short stories, American Horror tales, American literature

Complete Tales and Poems [71 stories, 64 poems, 1 essay] Edgar Allan Poe · 1992 · 1024p · ≈ 34h · Challenging 71 stories: Duc De L'Omelette -- Tale of Jerusalem -- Loss of breath -- Bon-bon -- Four beasts in one -- the Homo-Cameleopard -- MS. Found in a bottle -- Assignation Unparallelled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- Lionizing -- Shadow: A parable -- Silence — A Fable Berenice Morella -- King Pest -- Mystification -- Ligeia -- How to write a Blackwood article -- Devil in the belfry… Shares Satire, American Horror tales, American literature, Short Stories

At Dark, I Become Loathsome

At Dark, I Become Loathsome Eric LaRocca · 2025 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares American literature, Horror with this book.

Whisper Down the Lane

Whisper Down the Lane Clay Chapman · 2021 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares American literature, Horror with this book.

Fever House

Fever House Keith Rosson · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set… Shares American literature, Horror

Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang · 2025 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares American literature, Horror with this book.

Come With Me

Come With Me Ronald Malfi · 2021 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee."Malfi is a modern-day Algernon Blackwood... I'm gonna be talking about this book for years"JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence—and her ghost—Aaron goes through her belongings, where… Shares American literature, Horror

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction H. P. Lovecraft · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 1104p · ≈ 36h · Moderate A collection of Lovecraft's published works written between 1917 and 1935. Also includes an introduction, juvenilia, and an essay on the genre. Shares American literature, Horror

The Cipher

The Cipher Kathe Koja · 1991 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook. Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the… Shares American literature, Horror

After the People Lights Have Gone Off

After the People Lights Have Gone Off Stephen Graham Jones · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A collection of stories that tap into the horrors and fears of the supernatural-- as well as the everyday. Shares American Horror tales, Short Stories

Waifs and Strays O. Henry · 1917 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including "May This Be Your Last Sorrow" from The Essential Bordertown and "There's No Such Thing," which appeared in Yolen and Greenburg's anthology Vampires. In its first appearance, "Sisters," tells of precocious… Shares American Short stories, Short Stories

Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Light "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 American Short stories, Short Stories

South Sea Tales Jack London · 1911 · ★ 3.8 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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 American Short stories, Short Stories

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