5 Top short stories books like Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

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Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin…

"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

If you liked the short stories plot in Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • dark
  • horror
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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2. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.78

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are co… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Everything the Darkness Eats book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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5. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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6. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

Similar categories in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's Monstrilio book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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7. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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8. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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9. Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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10. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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11. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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13. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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14. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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15. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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16. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca

18. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

Cover of The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca

19. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

By: Eric LaRocca

3.74

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • horror
  • adult
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20. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

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C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Everything the Darkness Eats

Eric LaRocca

2.78

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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20 best-selling fiction books like Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

Transform Your Habits

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C.J. Leede

3.78

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Chuck Tingle

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