Books like The return by Walter De la Mare

Bod is the lone living child in a graveyard, raised by ghosts, werewolves and other spectral inhabitants. As he learns their ancient customs and the ability to Fade, he confronts the mysteries of both living and dead worlds.

In a South Carolina penitentiary, a death‑row supervisor encounters an inmate with miraculous healing powers, weaving themes of death, empathy, and the supernatural into a haunting tale of justice and humanity.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

In Washington Irving’s classic, a superstitious schoolmaster falls ill after a chilling encounter with a headless horseman while courting a wealthy farmer’s daughter.

On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton learns he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to gather six mystical Signs to defeat the Dark forces.

Vampire bounty hunter Rachel Morgan faces the most powerful foe yet: the creator of her very own demons.

An unnamed servant of death finds himself in modern-day New York, a ghost and a demon, seeking revenge on a young girl who was murdered, and time travel into the past to avenge the murder before it occurred.

Princess Meredith, heir to a faerie throne and former Los Angeles detective, is trapped in a perilous realm where magical duties and lustful threats collide as she struggles to conceive an heir while facing deadly conspiracies.

A comprehensive anthology of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short stories—such as "The Tell‑Tale Heart" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue"—and iconic poems including "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven", showcasing his mastery of horror, mystery, and lyrical verse.

Truck driver Keisha Taylor sees her late wife in a news broadcast, and suddenly finds herself embroiled in a supernatural clash that courses through the nation’s highways.

These eight tales by Walter de la Mare have never been collected, following their initial publication—under the byline of "Walter Ramal” - in The Sketch, Pall Mall Magazine, and The Cornhill Magazine at the turn of the century. They represent de la Mare's early fiction, and their author agreed to their republication in book form only a short time before his death. Their authorship is unmistakable, and such stories as A Mote and A: B: O. clearly indicate de la Mare's strengthening course toward the writing of such remarkable macabre masterpieces as Seaton's Aunt, All Hallows, The Connoisseur, Crewe, and others. Walter de la Mare was one of that small group of British writers who brought the macabre tale to new heights of artistry. These stories are his earliest published work—Kismet, one of them, was his first story to appear in print when it was brought out by The Sketch in 1895, but their author, though he "had a long way to go before he should be able to produce the literature that the foremost among his writing contemporaries should rejoice to hail so many years afterward" was, as Dr. Wagenknecht writes, "embryonically at least, the writer we were to know and love in so many varied phases of his activity, down through the busy years, in such a large body of work, so varied in its aspects, so extraordinarily single in its inspiration."

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 Middle‑English stories told by a diverse group of pilgrims on a journey to Canterbury, offering vivid insight into medieval English society, religion, and morality.

A collection of thirty‑four Danish fairy tales translated into English, including classics such as "The Red Shoes," "The Chimney Sweep," "The Nightingale," and "The Garden of Paradise."