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Loved The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from horror, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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  1. 1

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker · 1897 · Horror

    Letters and diaries trace a creeping invasion by an ancient predator; the novel that fixed the vampire in our imagination.

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    The Haunting of Hill House

    Shirley Jackson · 1959 · Horror

    Four people spend a summer in a house that may be alive; the gold standard for the literary ghost story.

  3. 3

    The Shining

    Stephen King · 1977 · Horror

    A family caretakes an empty winter hotel that wants the father for itself; King's masterclass in dread.

  4. 4

    It

    Stephen King · 1986 · Horror

    A group of friends face a shape-shifting evil in their home town, then again as adults; a doorstop of fear and friendship.

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    A thin ghost and others

    Montague Rhodes James · 1919 · Horror

    This volume of M.R. James's classic ghostly fiction contains: "Preface," "The Residence at Whitminster," "The Diary of Mr. Poynter," "The Episode of Cathedral History, "The Story of a Disappearance an

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    The Pit and the Pendulum

    Edgar Allan Poe · 1907 · Horror

    "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 ab

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    The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

    Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · Horror

    Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951).

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    Semilla del Diablo

    Ira Levin · 1900 · Horror

    She is a housewife—young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor—charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home—a dream that turns

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

    Rudyard Kipling · 1893 · Horror

    A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.

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    Night Shift

    Stephen King · 1960 · Horror

    Stephen King has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces--bizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unear

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