18 books like The Masque of the Red Death

What to read after The Masque of the Red Death — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century Laura Otis · 2002 · 575p · ≈ 19h · Moderate LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. PROLOGUE: LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. Sonnet---To Science (1829) / Edgar Allan Poe The Belfast Address (1874) / John Tyndall From Science and Culture (1880) / Thomas Henry Huxley Literature and Science (1882) / Matthew Arnold MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY. Mathematics. Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) / Ada Lovelace From Formal… Shares: Plagues, Abbeys, Short Story, Gothic fiction

The White People Arthur Machen · 2004 · ★ 3.8 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "The White People" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s, it was first published in 1904 in Horlick's Magazine, edited by Machen's friend A. E. Waite, then reprinted in Machen's collection The House of Souls. Shares: Short Story, Horror

Short Stories Schweikert, Harry Christian · 1925 · 566p · ≈ 18h · Challenging This book contains short stories by Puskin, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and others. Shares: Short Story, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror

Short stories , Enlarged Edition Harry Christian Schweikert · 1934 · ★ 4.5 · 612p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Token / Joseph Hergesheimer Third ingredient / O. Henry Turkey red / Frances Gilchrist Wood Elephant remembers / Edison Marshall Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe Postmistress of Laurel Run / Bret Harte Ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne Penrod's busy day / Booth Tarkington Young man Axelbrod / Sinclair Lewis Ice water, pl! / Fannie Hurst Heyday of the blood / Dorothy… Shares: Short Story, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror

Night Chills Dean Koontz · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Designed by top scientists and unleashed in a monstrous conspiracy, night chills are seizing the men and women of Black River--driving them to acts of rape and murder. The nightmare is real. And death is the only cure... Shares: Horror stories, Horror

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: Short Story, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror

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: Short Story, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror

Whispers Dean Koontz · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "A MASTER STORYTELLER...his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns."—The San Diego Union-Tribune For thirty-five years, Bruno Frye has lived in the shadow of the mother who made his heart beat with constant fear. And even though she died five years ago, the whispers still haunt him in the dark...enough to make him kill—and kill again... Hilary Thomas is one… Shares: Horror stories, Horror

Children of the Corn Stephen King · 1978 · ★ 3.9 · 16p · ≈ 32m · Moderate Burt and Vicky are traveling through Nebraska on their way to California on a vacation meant to save their failing marriage. After being involved in an accident in which they run over a young boy who ran into the road, they take the body to Gaitlin, a small isolated community nearby. The story centers on their encounters with the strange citizens of Gaitlin and the entity they call “He Who Walks… Shares: Short Story, Horror

Poe's Children Peter Straub · 2008 · ★ 3.5 · 534p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story—and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner—gathers 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing. “Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book.” —The Washington Post“[Straub] collects the best scary short stories out there.” —TimeDan Chaon “The… Shares: American Horror tales, Horror

Tales of Terror [12 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1971 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Pit and the Pendulum Cask of Amontillado Fall of the House of Usher Tell-tale HeartMasque of the Red Death Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / by E.A. Poe -- The signal man / by C. Dickens -- The mummy's foot / by T. Gautier -- Markheim -- The body snatcher / by R.L. Stevenson -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / by A. Bierce -- What was it? / by F. O'Brien. Shares: Juvenile audience, American Horror tales, Horror

The Premature Burial Edgar Allan Poe · 2013 · ★ 3.8 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate "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 & Poems… Shares: Short Story, Horror

Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition Charles H. Bohner · 1989 · 1180p · ≈ 39h · Challenging Roses, rhododendron / A. Adams -- The egg ; I want to know why / S. Anderson -- Rape fantasies / M. Atwood -- The story of my dovecot / I. Babel -- Sonny's blues / J. Baldwin -- The lesson / T.C. Bambara -- My mother's memoirs, my father's lie, and other true stories / R. Banks -- Lost in the funhouse / J. Barth -- A city of churches / D. Barthelme -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / A. Bierce… Shares: Short Story, Horror

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

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: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Horror

Seven Gothic tales Isak Dinesen · 1934 · ★ 3.9 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and… Shares: Gothic fiction, Horror

The Damned Algernon Blackwood · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Damned is a chilling tale of supernatural horror from one of the great masters of horror fiction, Algernon Blackwood. Shares: Horror

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce · 1913 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is about stories that encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer. Shares: Horror

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