12 Top anthologies books like The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen by Ellen Datlow

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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

By: Ellen Datlow

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry i…

If you liked the anthologies plot in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen by Ellen Datlow , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Laird Barron's The Croning book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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2. 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

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"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

3. 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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4. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

Similar categories in Kathe Koja's The Cipher book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. A Child Alone With Strangers

By: Philip Fracassi

4.28

Format: 575 pages, Hardcover

When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's A Child Alone With Strangers book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. 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 Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

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

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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8. Sefira and Other Betrayals

By: John Langan

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 1614981922 (ISBN13: 9781614981923) John Langan’s new book is c… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Sefira and Other Betrayals book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"The dread, blank as water, was that she had not yet heard the worst of Victoria's story, a groundless anxiety that, the instant she recognized it, she knew was true."

-John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals

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9. 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

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Beast You Are: Stories book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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10. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more

Similar categories in Attila Veres's The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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13. 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

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. 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 Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

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

Similar categories in John Langan's Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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16. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Cull's Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
Cover of The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca

17. 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 Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen by Ellen Datlow

18. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

By: Ellen Datlow

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry i… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
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19. 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 Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

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

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

Cover of A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino

20. A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

By: Luigi Musolino

4.23

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant new collection showcases the best short stories and novellas of one of Italy's leadi… read more

Similar categories in Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations book and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Isolation: The Horror Anthology by M.R. Carey

21. Isolation: The Horror Anthology

By: M.R. Carey

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A chilling horror anthology of 18 stories about the terrifying fears of isolation, from the modern … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal

19 must-read fiction books like The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen by Ellen Datlow

Transform Your Habits

The Croning

Laird Barron

3.73

Transform Your Habits

North American Lake Monsters

Nathan Ballingrud

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Cipher

Kathe Koja

3.54

Transform Your Habits

This Wretched Valley

Jenny Kiefer

3.33

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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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