7 must-read horror books like Illuminations: Stories by Alan Moore

Cover of Illuminations: Stories by Alan             Moore

Illuminations: Stories

By: Alan Moore

3.53

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a se…

"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of competing CGI workshops, and goes better unasked."

-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories

"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of competing CGI workshops, and goes better unasked."

-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories

"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of competing CGI workshops, and goes better unasked."

-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories

If you liked the horror plot in Illuminations: Stories by Alan Moore , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score by Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark

1. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Glitz by Elmore Leonard

2. Glitz

By: Elmore Leonard

3.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having been shot by a junkie and had his medical leave cancelled, Miami cop Vincent Mora is sent to… read more

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  • fiction

3. Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2

By: Clive Barker , Stephen Thompson , None

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest horror franchises of all time returns, now under the control of its original cr… read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2 book and Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories

4. Three Moments of an Explosion

By: China Miéville

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil… read more

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5. Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson: Omnibus

By: Frank Miller , Klaus Janson

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

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Cover of The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy

6. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

7. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • audiobook
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5) by Ed Brubaker

8. Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.43

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The FIFTH BOOK in the best-selling Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Br… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Superman: Space Age

By: Mark Russell

4.20

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Uniting the critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell (One-Star Squadron and The Flintstones) and Ei… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Monica by Daniel Clowes

10. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Malarkoi (Cities of the Weft, #2) by Alex Pheby

11. Malarkoi (Cities of the Weft, #2)

By: Alex Pheby

3.75

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Nathan Treeves is dead, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create the powerful o… read more

Similar categories in Alex Pheby's Malarkoi (Cities of the Weft, #2) book and Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories

  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Illuminations: Stories by Alan             Moore

12. Illuminations: Stories

By: Alan Moore

3.53

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a se… read more

Similar categories in Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories book and Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories

  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of comp…"

-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories

Cover of Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1) by Alex Pheby

13. Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

By: Alex Pheby

3.60

Format: 617 pages, Hardcover

GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered… read more

Similar categories in Alex Pheby's Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1) book and Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. S…"

-Alex Pheby, Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

Cover of Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi

14. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

By: Garth Marenghi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more

Similar categories in Garth Marenghi's Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome book and Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

Cover of The Citadel of Forgotten Myths by Michael Moorcock

15. The Citadel of Forgotten Myths

By: Michael Moorcock

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Elric along with his companion Moonglum return, in this prequel set within the early days of Elric’… read more

Similar categories in Michael Moorcock's The Citadel of Forgotten Myths book and Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat by Garth Marenghi

16. Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat

By: Garth Marenghi

3.93

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

Garth Marenghi - Frightenerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche by John Higgs

17. Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

By: John Higgs

4.15

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the B… read more

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  • audiobook
"His voice was proof that no matter how lost you may be you are never alone because there are people like John Lennon who could reach you."

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"In the midst of communal screaming there is only the present moment. The past and the future dissolve the way, nothing more than illusions. When the past disappears it takes with it the possibility o…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"When Bond was born he personified an aspect of male identity that was prevalent after the war that of the protector. Man saw their role as being the one to protect their families from external threat…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

"An important factor here is that Bond does not see himself as a victim. This feels like it should be an increasingly important aspect of the character given the extent which society consistently urge…"

-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

Cover of Miracleman: The Silver Age by Neil Gaiman

18. Miracleman: The Silver Age

By: Neil Gaiman

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The wait is over! Decades in the making, Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and Mark Buckingham's (Fables) Mirac… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville

19. The Last Days of New Paris

By: China Miéville

3.54

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

"Beauty will be convulsive...." It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Liberation was fucked up."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Devils and Nazis don’t work well together."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

Cover of Luda by Grant Morrison

20. Luda

By: Grant Morrison

3.27

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Luci LaBang is a star: for decades this flamboyant drag artist has cast a spell over screen and sta… read more

Similar categories in Grant Morrison's Luda book and Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

21. The Warlock Effect

By: Jeremy Dyson

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The Warlock Effect is a highly entertaining, fiendishly clever thriller. Set in 1950s Soho, where t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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