Books like Kwaidan
Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn reads as eerie, melancholic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe · 1940
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69% genome match
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker · 1937
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73% genome match
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving · 1820
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69% genome match
MASTERPIECES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL
Marvin Kaye · 1985
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71% genome match
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood · 1906
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69% genome match
In a glass darkly
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
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69% genome match
Gothic!
Deborah Noyes · 2004
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70% genome match
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini · 1981
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69% genome match
Collected Ghost Stories
Montague Rhodes James · 1931
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69% genome match
Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800
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69% genome match
Gothic Tales of Terror
Peter Haining · 1972
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69% genome match
The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain
Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1800
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69% genome match
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