Books like 50 great horror stories
50 great horror stories by John Canning reads as chilling, unsettling. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini · 1981
Both explore fear & supernatural
79% genome match
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Roald Dahl · 1983
Both explore supernatural & fear
74% genome match
Tales of Mystery and Terror (Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words With a Mummy / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe · 1967
Both explore fear
63% genome match
Dead of Night
Peter Haining · 1981
Both explore supernatural & fear
77% genome match
The Horror hall of fame
Robert Silverberg · 1991
Both explore supernatural & fear
73% genome match
65 Great Spine Chillers
Mary Danby · 1982
Both explore fear & supernatural
75% genome match
MASTERPIECES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL
Marvin Kaye · 1985
Both explore supernatural & fear
71% genome match
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irving · 1976
Both explore supernatural & fear
71% genome match
The Power of Darkness
Edith Nesbit · 2006
Both explore supernatural
64% genome match
The best ghost stories
Daniel Defoe · 1919
Both explore supernatural & fear
68% genome match
The Haunting of Toby Jugg
Dennis Wheatley · 1948
Same horror feel
67% genome match
The Oxford book of English ghost stories
Michael Cox · 1986
Both explore supernatural & fear
66% genome match
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