Books like Dark Tales

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• The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 42 min
• Seven Gothic Tales Isak Dinesen 7.7 h
• Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin 9.9 h
• The Horror Hall of Fame Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King 7.6 h
• The Shining Stephen King 9.3 h
• Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1.7 h
• Dracula Bram Stoker 7.0 h
• Haunted Joyce Carol Oates 5.9 h
• Scared Stiff Ramsey Campbell 3.5 h
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 5.1 h
• 'Salem’s Lot Stephen King 9.3 h
• Great American Short Stories Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Conrad Aiken, Katherine Anne Porter, James Thurber, William March, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Paul Horgan, John O'Hara, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Hortense Calisher, Mary (editor) Stegner 9.4 h

How long each takes

The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 42 min Seven Gothic Tales Isak Dinesen 7.7 h Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin 9.9 h The Horror Hall of Fame Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King 7.6 h The Shining Stephen King 9.3 h Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1.7 h Dracula Bram Stoker 7.0 h Haunted Joyce Carol Oates 5.9 h Scared Stiff Ramsey Campbell 3.5 h Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 5.1 h 'Salem’s Lot Stephen King 9.3 h Great American Short Stories Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Conrad Aiken, Katherine Anne Porter, James Thurber, William March, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Paul Horgan, John O'Hara, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Hortense Calisher, Mary (editor) Stegner 9.4 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.