Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (Tales of the Weird)
By: Mike Ashley
3.77
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
It is too often accepted that during the 19th and early 20th centuries it was the male writers who …
Want to Read $ 3.88"What secret history of passion and sin lay between the two of them, who shall say?"-Mike Ashley, Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (Tales of the Weird)
"there are rooms which have no ears, though they are not confessionals, and there are good friends who have not tongues, though they are not priests."-Mike Ashley, Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (Tales of the Weird)
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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
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"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
2. The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
By: Sue Townsend
2.95
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted… read more
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- fiction
"She was alone. She missed him immediately."-Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
"She had always been comforted by confectionery"-Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
"Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic."-Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
"Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed."-Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
3. Moral Disorder and Other Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Margaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorder she h… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"You can't lead if no one will follow."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
"The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst."-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
4. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- fiction
"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
5. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
6. Sons of the Wolf
By: Barbara Michaels
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ada and Harriet had never met anyone like Mr. Wolfson, the strangely magnetic, darkly funny man who… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
7. Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
4.04
Format: 288 pages,
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this he… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
8. Step Aside, Pops (Hark! A Vagrant, #3)
By: Kate Beaton
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to the hit comic collection Hark! a Vagrant, which appeared on best of lists from Time, … read more
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9. The Secret of Terror Castle (Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators, #1)
By: Robert Arthur
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Finding a genuine haunted house for a movie set sounds like fun -- and a great way to generate publ… read more
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10. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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11. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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12. Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
With its fascinating mix of people - rich and poor, British and foreign, worthy and suspicious - Lo… read more
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14. Fearful Symmetries
By: Ellen Datlow
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
**Winner of the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology** Edited by Hugo award-winning… read more
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15. Smallbone Deceased
By: Michael Gilbert
4.05
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly re… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapte…"-Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased
16. 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
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- horror
- fantasy
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
17. 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
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- gothic
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- fantasy
18. Ghosts: The Button House Archives
By: Mathew Baynton
4.56
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The comic companion to the BBC sitcom GHOSTS. Everybody leaves a trace. The ghosts of Button Hou… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
19. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
By: James Tynion IV
4.30
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- horror
"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
20. The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
By: Martin Edwards
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is pla… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- classics
- anthologies
21. The Possession (The Anomaly Files #2)
By: Michael Rutger
3.33
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Still recovering from the shocking revelations they uncovered deep in uncharted territory in the Gr… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"The problem with seeing a lot of places is they all start to seem the same, especially the ones that are trying to be different."-Michael Rutger, The Possession (The Anomaly Files #2)
"I'm fine,"she said, keeping her head down,wiping the back of her hand across her eyes.It was probably too late,but she didn't want him to see she'd been crying.She was fourteen.That's not a child any…"-Michael Rutger, The Possession (The Anomaly Files #2)
22. Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (Tales of the Weird)
By: Mike Ashley
3.77
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
It is too often accepted that during the 19th and early 20th centuries it was the male writers who … read more
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- gothic
- classics
- weird fiction
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- fantasy
"What secret history of passion and sin lay between the two of them, who shall say?"-Mike Ashley, Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (Tales of the Weird)
"there are rooms which have no ears, though they are not confessionals, and there are good friends who have not tongues, though they are not priests."-Mike Ashley, Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (Tales of the Weird)
23. Keedie
By: Elle McNicoll
4.69
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more
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- fiction
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."-Elle McNicoll, Keedie
24. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
25. Eyes Guts Throat Bones
By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers rain… read more
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- horror
26. Far inte till havet
By: Elin Anna Labba
3.89
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
När Igá och Rávdná kommer hem till sommarlandet ligger byn redan under vatten. Utan att förvarna de… read more
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27. The Virago Book of Witches
By: Shahrukh Husain
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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- anthologies
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- horror
- fantasy
28. A Girl Called Justice (Justice Jones, #1)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.09
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Missing maids, suspicious teachers and a snow storm to die for... For a fearless girl called Justic… read more
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- fiction
29. Anatomía del mal: 8 crímenes que te harán perder la fe en la humanidad (Spanish Edition)
By: Jordi Wild
3.48
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
ESTE LIBRO TE HARÁ REPLANTEARTE LO LEJOS QUE PUEDE LLEGAR EL SER HUMANO. En estas páginas nos e… read more
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30. The Penguin Book of Mermaids
By: Cristina Bacchilega
3.78
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
*Includes "The Little Mermaid," now a major motion picture from Disney starring Halle Bailey and di… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
31. Space Crone
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.29
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
For the first time, Space Crone brings together celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on … read more
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