The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
By: Tori Bovalino
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath…
Want to Read $ 9.99"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
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1. Where Echoes Die
By: Courtney Gould
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigativ… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"I want to feel like I can keep going. Like I know how. I don't want to be afraid to look forward and lose everything behind me."-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die
"...that pain isn't universal. It's just a part of living in Backravel, tethered to the same chunk of time forever with no escape. At one point, Beck thought it sounded perfect. Now, it sounds like a …"-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die
"For the first time it occurs to Beck that the people of Backravel might not be recognizing her, but her similarities to her mother. An ache pangs deep in Beck's chest, and she wants to press for more…"-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die
"She can't help picturing what her morning would look like today in a world where [her mother] never died. [...] She didn't like details then because details made time slow down. Lingering in the same…"-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die
2. 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
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- anthologies
- short stories
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- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
3. 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
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- gothic
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"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)
4. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- gothic
- paranormal
- fiction
- horror
5. A House with Good Bones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.69
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- paranormal
- horror
- fantasy
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
6. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
By: Brom
4.29
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only… read more
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- fantasy
- paranormal
- fiction
- horror
"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
7. 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
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"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
8. The Invocations
By: Krystal Sutherland
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations
"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations
"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations
"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations
9. In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology
By: Marie O'Regan
3.39
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
ENROLLMENT BEGINS NOW A beguiling, sinister collection of 12 dark academia short stories from ma… read more
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- gothic
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"As early as she could remember, she was escaping into books, falling into stories, cloaking herself from the great summer storms with silken words."-Marie O'Regan, In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology
"A Tom Sawyerish figure she imagined growing up on some widwestern farm, reading adventure books and butchering chickens, pulling the braids of milkmaids and leaving his hometown to travel the world; …"-Marie O'Regan, In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology
"People seemed to live so differently in the past, with real purpose and romance—true romance—born of suffering and sacrifice and courage, not this modern-day idea of romance made up of cheap words, a…"-Marie O'Regan, In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology
10. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
11. 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
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
12. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.52
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
13. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
By: Tori Bovalino
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- anthologies
- young adult
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
14. She Is a Haunting
By: Trang Thanh Tran
3.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting
"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting
"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting
"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could'v…"-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting
15. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology
By: Ellen Datlow
3.65
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
16. Lute
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.62
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Wicker Man meets Final Destination in Jennifer Thorne's atmospheric, unsettling folk horror novel a… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
17. The Restless Dark
By: Erica Waters
3.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast … read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"Dad said I should be afraid of death because I'll finally have to face judgement for my sins. But he was wrong. These bones tell me there's nothing in death to fear. It's only the living who need to …"-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark
"There is no such thing as generational curses, no evil carried in our DNA. That's just Pentecostal bullshit, a way to reject responsibility and guilt. We are the choices we make, the actions we commi…"-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark
18. An Education in Malice
By: S.T. Gibson
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice
19. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
By: Circe Moskowitz
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, … read more
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- lgbt
- anthologies
- young adult
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
- queer
20. The Bad Ones
By: Melissa Albert
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more
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- gothic
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- paranormal
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones
