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Books like Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Loved Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling? 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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Dracula
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
Four people spend a summer in a house that may be alive; the gold standard for the literary ghost story.
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The Shining
A family caretakes an empty winter hotel that wants the father for itself; King's masterclass in dread.
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It
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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Semilla del Diablo
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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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Collection of short fiction horror stories by the weird fiction writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951).
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The Pit and the Pendulum
"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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A thin ghost and others
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 Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley is the delightful tale of the bookseller Roger Mifflin, the advertising man Aubrey Gilbert, and the lovely Titania Chapman who comes to work at Mifflin's Bro
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The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest
The Lancashire Witches begins in the 16th century, in Lancashire, England. When a Cistercian monk, Borlace Alvetham, is falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death by his rival, Brother Pasle