Books like In a glass darkly

In a glass darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu reads as eerie, suspenseful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe · 1945

Shares the vornate thread

83% genome match

The Watcher and Other Weird Stories

Sheridan Le Fanu · 1894

Shares the vornate thread

82% genome match

Gothic Tales of Terror

Peter Haining · 1972

Shares the vornate thread

81% genome match

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Algernon Blackwood · 1906

Shares the vornate thread

75% genome match

The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural

Bill Pronzini · 1981

Shares the vornate thread

76% genome match

Gothic Tales

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 2000

Shares the vornate thread

75% genome match

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving · 1820

Shares the vornate thread

70% genome match

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Montague Rhodes James · 1904

Shares the vornate thread

72% genome match

Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror

Robert Donald Spector · 1963

Shares the vornate thread

74% genome match

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Bram Stoker · 1937

Shares the vornate thread

72% genome match

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

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1800

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72% genome match

Kwaidan

Lafcadio Hearn · 1904

Shares the vornate thread

70% genome match