14 Top fiction books like Out of the Earth (World Cultural Heritage Library) by Arthur Machen

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Out of the Earth (World Cultural Heritage Library)

By: Arthur Machen

3.22

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An inventor of fantasies is a poor creature, heaven knows, when all the world is at war; but I thou…

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1. Beyond the Wall of Sleep

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.69

Format: 17 pages, ebook

Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and f… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages."

-H.P. Lovecraft, Beyond the Wall of Sleep

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2. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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3. Grimscribe: His Lives and Works

By: Thomas Ligotti

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Seeking deadly justice when she and her invalid father receive next to nothing in a lawsuit settlem… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Casting the Runes

By: M.R. James

4.29

Format: None pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Prometheus Unbound

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

4.00

Format: None pages,

One of the most ambitious dramatic poems ever written, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound te… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Voice in the Night

By: William Hope Hodgson

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Audiobook

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consistin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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8. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

10. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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11. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.37

Format: 414 pages,

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more

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12. The Imp of The Perverse

By: Edgar Allan Poe

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more

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13. Afterward

By: Edith Wharton

4.14

Format: None pages,

Or, rather, Ned answered, in the same strain, "why, amid so much that's ghostly, it can never affir… read more

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14. The Red Lodge

By: H. Russell Wakefield

4.27

Format: 197 pages, ebook

H. R. Wakefield was one of the most popular ghost-story writers of the early 20th century. 'The Red… read more

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15. The Judge's House

By: Bram Stoker

3.00

Format: None pages,

A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds th… read more

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16. My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

By: Thomas Ligotti , None

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all i…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world’s midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular att…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

17. Noctuary

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

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18. Azathoth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his wi… read more

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19. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more

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20. Randalls Round

By: Eleanor Scott

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

BORN OF NIGHTMARES... Presented within are nine examples of the finest horror and supernatural lite… read more

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21. O Alienista

By: Machado de Assis

4.10

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Clássico da literatura brasileira, este texto de Machado de Assis continua sendo, cento e trinta an… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Portando que se devia admitir como normal e exemplar o desequilíbrio das faculdades."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Los locos de amor eran tres o cuatro, pero sólo les resultaban asombrosos por la curiosa índole de su delirio."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

22. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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23. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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24. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more

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25. 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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26. The Unnamable

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more

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27. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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28. Out of the Earth (World Cultural Heritage Library)

By: Arthur Machen

3.22

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An inventor of fantasies is a poor creature, heaven knows, when all the world is at war; but I thou… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

29. Notebook Found in a Deserted House

By: Robert Bloch

3.96

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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30. Pallinghurst Barrow

By: Grant Allen

3.36

Format: None pages, None

A famous short story read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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31. Lucky's Grove

By: H. Russell Wakefield

3.50

Format: None pages, None

Not a book, but a Short Story that was published in several Collections/ Anthologies of different s… read more

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H.P. Lovecraft

3.69

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Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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3.91

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M.R. James

4.29

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Arthur Machen

3.69

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Robert E. Howard

4.17

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H.P. Lovecraft

3.84

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4.00

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