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Books like A haunted house, and other short stories
A shimmering, impressionistic journey through the quiet ghosts of memory, time, and the profound weight of everyday moments. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with A haunted house, and other short stories.
- ethereal
- introspective
- haunting
- luminous
- quiet
- 01
"The yellow wallpaper" and other stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1995
A chilling, claustrophobic descent into the mind of a woman trapped by the very walls meant to heal her.
- 02
A Writer's Diary
Virginia Woolf
An intimate, unvarnished glimpse into the daily thoughts, creative struggles, and raw genius of a literary master.
- 03
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
A luminous, deeply internal exploration of memory, art, and the relentless passage of time crashing against the shores of a single family's life.
- 04
Collected Ghost Stories
Montague Rhodes James
A masterclass in slow-burn dread where dusty archives and quiet country inns hide ancient, malevolent forces waiting to be disturbed.
- 05
The hours
Michael Cunningham · 1998
A luminous, deeply interior meditation on the quiet tragedies and fleeting beauties of a single ordinary day.
- 06
Bliss, and other stories
Katherine Mansfield
A delicate, luminous exploration of the quiet epiphanies and hidden sorrows pulsing beneath the surface of everyday life.
- 07
Howards End
E. M. Forster · 2007
A sharp, deeply felt exploration of what happens when the life of the mind collides with the brutal pragmatism of the modern world.
- 08
Julia
Peter Straub
A chilling exploration of maternal grief wrapped in a suffocating supernatural haunting.
- 09
Ghost Stories
Rudyard Kipling
A foundational collection of 20th-century supernatural tales that shifts seamlessly from quiet atmospheric dread to gruesome body horror and dark satire.
- 10
Short stories
Herbert George Wells
A visionary collection of speculative tales that makes the impossible feel utterly plausible.
- 11
Great short works of Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy · 2004
A piercing, unsparing gaze into the depths of the human soul, stripping away societal illusions to confront the raw realities of life and death.
- 12
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker
A chilling collection of early twentieth-century tales that immerses the reader in the foundational shadows of Gothic horror.
