5 Best anthologies books like A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir) by Joyce Carol Oates

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A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.76

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Du…

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1. Notice

By: Heather Lewis , None

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

As a young adult, she started to turn tricks in the parking lot of the local bar. Not because she n… read more

Similar categories in Heather Lewis's Notice book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.78

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are co… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Everything the Darkness Eats book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. 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

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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4. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
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7. 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

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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

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8. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

Similar categories in Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • horror
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.76

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Du… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir) book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • gothic
  • feminism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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10. Mrs. Gulliver

By: Valerie Martin

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning and beloved house author Valerie Martin ( Mary Reilly , Property , Italian F… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Martin's Mrs. Gulliver book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • adult
  • fiction
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11. The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

By: Eric LaRocca

3.74

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and autho… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
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12. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

Similar categories in Natsuko Imamura's Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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14. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • feminism
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
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16. The Invisible Hotel

By: Yeji Y. Ham

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative … read more

Similar categories in Yeji Y. Ham's The Invisible Hotel book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • adult
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17. Hard Copy

By: Fien Veldman

3.34

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This is a story of girl meets printer. A customer service assistant spends her long workdays pri… read more

Similar categories in Fien Veldman's Hard Copy book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • horror
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Frankenstein

By: Junji Ito

4.01

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The master of horror manga brings the world's greatest horror novel—Frankenstein—back to life. J… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Frankenstein book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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20. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

By: Cho yeeun

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more

Similar categories in Cho yeeun's The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre

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21. Myrrh

By: Polly Hall

3.18

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman searching for her birth-parents unlocks the secrets of her horrific past, as she tries to s… read more

Similar categories in Polly Hall's Myrrh book and Joyce Carol Oates's A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

21 must-read fiction books like A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir) by Joyce Carol Oates

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Notice

Heather Lewis , None

3.94

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Everything the Darkness Eats

Eric LaRocca

2.78

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Out There Screaming

Jordan Peele

3.79

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Queen Macbeth

Val McDermid

3.77

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The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

3.26

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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My Darling Dreadful Thing

Johanna van Veen

3.89

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Elliott Gish

3.96

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