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Books like The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest

Loved The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth? 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

    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 Shining

    Stephen King · 1977 · Horror

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

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    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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    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.

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    Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

    Edgar Allan Poe · 1840 · Horror

    Morella -- Lionizing -- William Wilson The man that was used up -- Fall of the House of Usher The Duc de l'Omelette -- Ms. found in a bottle -- Bon-bon -- Shadow -- The devil in the belfry -- Ligeia -

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    The Vampyre

    John William Polidori · 1819 · Horror

    The Vampyre*, a short gothic novel by John William Polidori, was first published in 1819 and is considered the first modern vampire story. The story features Lord Ruthven, a seductive aristocrat with

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    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)

    Mary Shelley · 1818 · Horror

    This is the original edition which was published in 3 volumes. The cover photograph is of Volume 1. Published anonymously. By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. First edition. With half-titles. Title page w

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    Nightmare Abbey

    Thomas Love Peacock · 1818 · Horror

    Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of

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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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    The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain

    Baron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton · 1800 · Horror

    This is a classic ghost story. It will send chills through the reader. Great Book!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. T

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