9 best-selling lovecraftian books like The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales by Attila Veres

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The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original…

If you liked the lovecraftian plot in The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales by Attila Veres , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism

By: Jon Padgett

3.90

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazi… read more

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  • short story collection
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."

-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

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2. A Collapse of Horses

By: Brian Evenson

4.02

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no mat… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that’s just when the world’s got you figured and is about to spring and break your back"

-Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses

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3. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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4. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.00

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more

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  • short story collection
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Wisdom devours the weak."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."

-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

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5. Teatro Grottesco

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.29

Format: 128 pages,

This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns,… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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6. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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7. North American Lake Monsters

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.97

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more

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  • short story collection
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"

-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

8. Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinis… read more

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9. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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10. 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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  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • 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

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11. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

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  • short story collection
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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13. The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1

By: James D. Jenkins

4.13

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, … read more

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  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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14. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

By: Brian Evenson

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"

-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

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15. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more

Similar categories in Attila Veres's The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales book and Attila Veres's The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

  • short story collection
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • dark
  • hungary
  • fantasy
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16. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Attila Veres's The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

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  • short story collection
  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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18. Swedish Cults

By: Anders Fager

3.47

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager’s stories, Sweden is revealed as… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

By: Bernardo Esquinca

4.14

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more

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  • short story collection
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."

-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

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20. A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

By: Luigi Musolino

4.23

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant new collection showcases the best short stories and novellas of one of Italy's leadi… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

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  • short stories
  • collections
  • fiction
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

19 Best fiction books like The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales by Attila Veres

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The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

Transform Your Habits

A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

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4.00

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Jon Padgett

3.90

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4.02

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Laird Barron

4.08

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

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