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Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection first published in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name. Contains: The Gray Champion Sunday At Home The Wedding Knell The Minister's Black Veil The Maypole of Merry Mount The Gentle Boy Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe Little Annie's Ramble Wakefield A Rill From the… Shares: Sextons, New england, Short Story, Clergy

La Fille de Rappaccini et autres contes fantastiques Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1989 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares: Sextons, Short Story, Clergy, Supernatural Shares: Sextons, Short Story, Clergy, Supernatural

Selected Tales and Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1900 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares: Sextons, Short Story, Clergy, Paranormal Shares: Sextons, Short Story, Clergy, Paranormal

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: Sextons, Short Story, Clergy

The elixir of life (Auriol) William Harrison Ainsworth · 1844 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Auriol: or, The Elixir of Life is a novel by British historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. It was first published in 1844 in serial form, under the title Revelations of London. Auriol, written 1844, is slightly unusual in the Ainsworth repertoire as the action is entirely couched as a fantasy, so that the supernatural element (which occurs also, for instance, in his Guy Fawkes and his… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

With the immortals Francis Marion Crawford · 1888 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton · 1910 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Tales of Men and Ghosts is a collection of ten Edith Wharton short stories: "The Bolted Door," "His Father's Son," "The Daunt Diana," "The Debt," "Full Circle," "The Legend," "The Eyes," "The Blond Beast," "Afterward," and "The Letters." Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

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, Paranormal

The Minister's Wooing Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1800 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Challenging From the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.First published in 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe's third novel is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Mary Scudder lives in a modest farmhouse with her widowed mother… Shares: New england, Clergy

The Forbidden Zone Whitley Strieber · 1993 · ★ 3.3 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The mound, a quiet town gathering spot ... until now. Now something undeniably evil is hiding beneath it. A powerful darkness, terror with unfathomable needs and desires, spreading its roots in secret, transforming all that the good townfolk love and cherish: their past, their hopes, their souls.Courageous physicist Brian Kelley and his beautiful, very pregnant wife, must confront the horror.… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

The Room In The Dragon Volant Sheridan Le Fanu · 2002 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The Room in the Dragon Volant is somewhat unusual for le Fanu, since it’s not really a supernatural tale. It does however have plenty of gothic elements and some genuine horror, and it’s an ingenious and entertaining tale. Shares: Paranormal

Cameos Marie Corelli · 1895 · ★ 3.4 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Paranormal

The wind in the rose-bush Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · 1903 · ★ 4.2 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Six ghost stories from small-town 19th century America. Shares: New england, Supernatural, Paranormal

Devour Melina Morel · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A spellbinding debut, paranormal thriller A Werewolf... A vampire... And the woman who wants them both. The dashing Pierre du Montfort is a werewolf who's never had trouble hiding his cursed heritage. But now with his dark secret about to be unleashed, he's willing to do anything-and savage anyone-in order to stay alive... Beautiful and intrepid werewolf hunter Catherine Marais has no qualms… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

The Book of Accidents Chuck Wendig · 2021 · ★ 3.7 · 540p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

A face at the window Dennis McFarland · 1997 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate After sending their only daughter off to boarding school, Cookson Selway and his wife, Ellen, travel to London to escape their empty, echoing house. But their quiet hotel has guests other than those on the register, and a vacation intended to distract them from the present instead becomes a chilling confrontation with the past. Selway, an escapist with an alcoholic history and a gift for… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang · 1886 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The chief leading the way, I followed through the open entrance of the courtyard. The yard was very spacious, and under the dark shade of the trees I could see a light here and there in the windows of small huts along the walls, where, as I found later, the slaves and the young men of the family slept. In the middle of the space there was another altar, I am sorry to say; indeed, there were… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

The house of souls Arthur Machen · 1906 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The mystical qualities of the first story are both rare and beautiful, and as a work of art alone it deserves to live. It is almost perfect--tender, true, intimate, and restrained. Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

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