15 must-read fiction books like Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain by John Miller

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Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain

By: John Miller

3.61

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Folk horror meets classic ghost stories in this new Tales of the Weird anthology Woods play a cr…

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1. Wylding Hall

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.80

Format: 176 pages, ebook

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their u… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
"But mostly I'm just respectful of old ways. I believe things for a reason, and in the old days they did things for a reason. And if you don't understand why—well, you might end up opening a few doors…"

-Elizabeth Hand, Wylding Hall

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2. Collected Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

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3. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

4. Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood , S.T. Joshi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Spine-tingling supernatural tales from "the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmospher… read more

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5. The Man Who Went Too Far

By: E.F. Benson

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

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6. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.50

Format: 282 pages,

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7. Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories

By: Kamila Shamsie , Andrew Martin , Jeanette Winterson , Mark Haddon , Andrew Michael Hurley , Max Porter , Sarah Perry , Stuart Evers , Kate Clanchy , None

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histo… read more

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8. My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

By: Thomas Ligotti , None

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all i…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world’s midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular att…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

9. Infinite Ground

By: Martin MacInnes

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A luminous debut novel of modern alienation, of the sinister beauty of the human body and of the en… read more

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10. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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11. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights book and John Miller's Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain

  • gothic
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of The House of Footsteps by Mathew West

12. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

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  • gothic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain by John   Miller

13. Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain

By: John Miller

3.61

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Folk horror meets classic ghost stories in this new Tales of the Weird anthology Woods play a cr… read more

Similar categories in John Miller's Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain book and John Miller's Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain

  • gothic
  • anthologies
  • folklore
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
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14. Cunning Folk

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancien… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona  Barnett

15. The Dark Between the Trees

By: Fiona Barnett

3.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern Englan… read more

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  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology by Richard  Wells

16. Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

By: Richard Wells

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted lands… read more

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  • anthologies
  • folklore
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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17. Mischief Acts

By: Zoe Gilbert

3.78

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Herne the hunter, mischief-maker, spirit of the forest, leader of the wild hunt, hurtles through th… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • folklore
Cover of Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell

18. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

By: Edward Parnell

3.95

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family t… read more

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  • gothic
  • folklore
  • horror
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19. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

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  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Arthur: The Always King by Kevin Crossley-Holland

21. Arthur: The Always King

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

The definitive retelling of the legends of King Arthur, from Carnegie Medal-winner Kevin Crossley-H… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

14 Best fantasy books like Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain by John Miller

Transform Your Habits

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Elizabeth Hand

3.80

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Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

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The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

Arthur Machen

3.69

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My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

Thomas Ligotti , None

3.87

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Devil's Day

Andrew Michael Hurley

3.25

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They Lurk

Ronald Malfi

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

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Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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