When Things Get Dark
By: Ellen Datlow
3.90
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark
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1. Get in Trouble
By: Kelly Link
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a …"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, sa…"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
2. Kissing Carrion
By: Gemma Files
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Paperback
In this first published collection of short stories from one of Canada's most talented rising stars… read more
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3. The Collection
By: Bentley Little
3.60
Format: None pages,
Called the "Master of the Macabre" by Stephen King, the Bram Stoker Award winner presents his first… read more
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4. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
4.21
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
5. Looking Glass Sound
By: Catriona Ward
3.49
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Potatoes make everything okay."-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound
6. A Haunting on the Hill
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.35
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
7. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
8. The Beast You Are: Stories
By: Paul Tremblay
3.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club , A He… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
9. 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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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- audiobook
10. The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)
By: Laird Barron
4.31
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- horror
11. Small Town Horror
By: Ronald Malfi
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
12. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
13. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
By: Eric LaRocca
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
14. Daphne
By: Josh Malerman
3.40
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
15. 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
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
16. When Things Get Dark
By: Ellen Datlow
3.90
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's When Things Get Dark book and Ellen Datlow's When Things Get Dark
- gothic
- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark
17. Spin a Black Yarn
By: Josh Malerman
3.40
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
18. 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
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- adult
- anthologies
- horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
19. Incidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
20. Blood from the Air
By: Gemma Files
4.08
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Angels and insects, holes in the known world's fabric and what comes out of them, the love of death… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
21. Howls From the Wreckage: An Anthology of Disaster Horror
By: Christopher O'Halloran
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Skies darken. Sirens wail. Buildings tremble with each distant boom. You grasp your loved ones clos… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- horror
