14 Top fantasy books like To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin

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To Rouse Leviathan

By: Matt Cardin

4.04

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird …

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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism

By: Jon Padgett

3.90

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazi… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."

-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

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2. A Collapse of Horses

By: Brian Evenson

4.02

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no mat… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that’s just when the world’s got you figured and is about to spring and break your back"

-Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses

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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

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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4. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

By: Laird Barron

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

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5. 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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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • 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

"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

"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

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6. 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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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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7. 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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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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

8. Greener Pastures

By: Michael Wehunt , Michael Bukowski

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

*Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, Single-Author Collection* *Shortlisted for the Crawford Award* *Ru… read more

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9. Wolf in White Van

By: John Darnielle

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolat… read more

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10. Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinis… read more

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11. Songs of a Dead Dreamer

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

Songs of a Dreamerwas Thomas Ligotti's first collection of supernatural horror stories. When origin… read more

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12. 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 Matt Cardin's To Rouse Leviathan

  • science fiction
  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. 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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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

14. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill

15. The Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

Similar categories in Adam L.G. Nevill's The Vessel book and Matt Cardin's To Rouse Leviathan

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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17. His Black Tongue

By: Mitchell Lüthi

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is no plague in Enfaire… Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-feari… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John  Langan

18. 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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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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19. To Rouse Leviathan

By: Matt Cardin

4.04

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird … read more

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  • lovecraftian
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • religion
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

20. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

By: Sadie Hartmann

4.43

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered book and Matt Cardin's To Rouse Leviathan

  • anthologies
  • horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."

-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

Cover of The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) by Christopher Buehlman

21. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) book and Matt Cardin's To Rouse Leviathan

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

16 must-read fiction books like To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin

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The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

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A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

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Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

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Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

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Experimental Film

Gemma Files

3.56

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