Books like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane, a gangly Connecticut schoolmaster, courts an heiress in a Dutch farming village on the Hudson and runs afoul of a burly rival and the local legend of a headless horseman.
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The October Country
Bradbury's darkest stories, from a man who becomes obsessed with the skeleton inside him to a family of night creatures gathering for a homecoming in an Illinois house.
A Box Full of Darkness
Years after their youngest brother Ben vanished near the woods everyone avoids in the strange town of Fell, New York, the three estranged Esmie siblings, Violet, Vail and Dodie, come home when Ben seems to be calling them back.
Odd Thomas
Odd Thomas, a twenty-year-old short-order cook in the desert town of Pico Mundo, California, sees the lingering dead and does what he can for them, and when a stranger arrives trailed by a swarm of shadowy creatures that feed on pain, he knows something terrible is coming.
Ghost Story
In the small town of Milburn, New York, four elderly men who call themselves the Chowder Society meet to tell ghost stories, and after the strange death of a fifth member, a winter of nightmares tells them that a secret from their youth has come back.
Salem's Lot
A writer moves to a quiet Maine town and discovers that the respectable residents are being turned into vampires, one invitation at a time.
Ghosts
Ghost stories Wharton gathered at the end of her life, in which old houses, servants' bells and letters from the dead unsettle wealthy, well-mannered people who would prefer not to believe.
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
Sherry Pinkwhistle, a mild-mannered librarian in the sleepy upstate New York hamlet of Winesap, has a habit of solving the murders that keep happening around her, and lately she suspects a demon is behind them.
The Gentleman from Indiana
John Harkless, an Eastern college man who bought the failing newspaper of Plattville, a small town in Indiana, has spent years there alone when a summer begins to change the town around him.
All Adults Here
Astrid Strick, a widow in a small Hudson Valley town, sees an acquaintance killed by a school bus, and decides it is time to tell her grown children something she has kept from them.
The Lottery and Other Stories
Stories of suburban menace and domestic cruelty, anchored by the infamous title story of a village ritual.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Ghost stories and legends of old Japan retold in English, among them the blind biwa player made to recite for the dead of a vanished clan and the snow woman who spares a young woodcutter on one condition.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
All four of Welty's story collections and a few uncollected pieces, from 'Why I Live at the P.O.' and 'A Worn Path' to the linked Morgana tales of The Golden Apples.