Algernon Blackwood
The Empty House: what to read next?
Books close in genre, era, author or reading level, to read in bilingual editions.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the BaskervillesSherlock Holmes, a detective with relentless reasoning, is called to investigate a curse that seems to haunt the Baskerville family. Alongside Dr. Watson, he unravels a case where superstition and reality become intertwined. On a dark and unsettling moor, every clue counts in…Same countrySame genreSame era
Arthur Conan DoyleTales of TerrorA collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, gathered in 1922: six tales of terror and six of mystery, with no detective and no recurring hero. An aviator climbs higher than any record to find out whether creatures live in the sky; a doctor, resting on a farm in…Same countrySame genreSame era
Robert W. ChambersThe Green MouseA humorous American novel. In New York in the early twentieth century, a ruined young man earns his living with magic tricks and trained animals, including mice dyed every colour; one of them, a green one, escapes into the studio of his neighbour Ethelinda, a young painter.…Same genreSame era
Fergus HumeThe Green MummyIn a lonely village on the Thames marshes, Archie, a poor young painter, wants to marry Lucy. Her stepfather, Professor Braddock, a collector of Egyptian mummies, agrees on one condition: Archie must pay for a rare mummy, that of an Inca king of Peru wrapped in green bandages.…Same countrySame genreSame era
Robert W. ChambersThe King in YellowAn artist discovers a strange play, The King in Yellow, whose reading seems to induce madness and obsession in those who delve into it. Through several interconnected stories, characters gradually descend into a disturbing world where reality and illusion blur. A haunting…Same genreSame era
Donn ByrneChangelingA collection of thirteen stories by the Irish-American writer Donn Byrne, published in 1923. In the title story, a former Broadway chorus girl is tried in New York for a murder committed ten years earlier; the policeman who brought her back from the South Seas tells the court…Same genreSame era
M. R. JamesGhost StoriesScholars and lovers of curiosities discover ancient objects or manuscripts that seem to carry an unsettling presence. Gradually, the ordinary tips into the strange and invisible forces manifest themselves. Each story builds subtle tension in which danger reveals itself step by…Same countrySame genreSame era
Gaston LerouxThe Phantom of the OperaA ghost haunts the backstage of a Paris opera house, imposing his presence and rules on the artists. Christine, a talented young singer, draws his attention and becomes the center of a strange bond between fascination and control. While another man tries to protect her, the…Same genreSame era
Arthur ReesThe Hand in the DarkAn English detective novel. In the autumn of 1918, the Heredith family is entertaining guests at their old moated manor house in Sussex. Violet, the young wife of the son of the house, is ill and stays alone in her room. During dinner, a scream and then a gunshot ring out…Same countrySame genreSame era
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Yellow WallpaperA young woman is taken by her physician husband to a summer house, to rest from a nervous condition that followed a birth. Forbidden to write or to work, she keeps a secret journal and spends her days in a room hung with yellow wallpaper. The pattern on the wall slowly takes up…Same genreSame era
Oscar WildeThe Canterville GhostThe Otis family, American and practical, buys an English manor said to have been haunted for three centuries. The ghost of Sir Simon multiplies apparitions, chains and bloodstains, without drawing from the newcomers the terror he expects. Humiliated by tenants who scrub away…Same genreSame era
Robert Louis StevensonDr Jekyll and Mr HydeDr Jekyll, a respected scientist, develops an experiment that allows him to separate the two sides of his personality. Under the identity of Mr Hyde, he unleashes his darkest instincts without restraint. But this transformation becomes uncontrollable and threatens to destroy…Same countrySame genreSame era