16 Best short stories books like The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson

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The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

By: John Langan

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated profess… read more

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  • short story collection
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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2. Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.82

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

A bestial face appears at windows in the night. In the big white house on the hill angels are said … read more

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  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"The world’s refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

"I thought to myself: this is how civilisation ends. Standards decline, accountability ends, the rule of law is impotent, the thugs take over and do what they will. And those of us softened by convent…"

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

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3. Occultation and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Occultation and Other Stories book and Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

  • short story collection
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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4. 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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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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5. 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
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • speculative fiction
  • 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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6. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

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7. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

By: Robert Aickman

4.40

Format: 436 pages,

Cold Hand in Minewas first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from … read more

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  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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8. 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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  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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9. 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
  • speculative fiction
  • 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

10. 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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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

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's All the Fiends of Hell book and Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud

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. Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

By: Laird Barron

3.99

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valle… read more

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2) book and Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"God lit a candle and then made us. He was afraid of being alone in the dark."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

"I'm a wary believer in signs and portents. The universe is always muttering threats."

-Laird Barron, Black Mountain (Isaiah Coleridge, #2)

Cover of In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files

14. In That Endlessness, Our End

By: Gemma Files

4.03

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection COME C… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • dark
Cover of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson

15. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

By: Brian Evenson

4.10

Format: 254 pages, ebook

“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell book and Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

  • short story collection
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • dark
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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16. 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
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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17. Antisocieties

By: Michael Cisco

4.01

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

ANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation - what it does to people, and what iso… read more

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  • short story collection
  • weird fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. The Ghost Sequences

By: A.C. Wise

3.98

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

From A.C. Wise, the acclaimed author of Wendy, Darling, comes a brand new collection of horror stor… read more

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  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs

19. A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

By: John Hornor Jacobs

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe

20. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

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  • short stories
  • collections
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Wise Friend

By: Ramsey Campbell

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Patrick Semple's aunt Thelma Turnbill was a successful artist whose late work turned towards the oc… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

20 must-read fiction books like The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

Adam L.G. Nevill

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

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18 best-selling fiction books like The Croning by Laird Barron

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Experimental Film

Gemma Files

3.56

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