The Stay-Awake Men and Other Unstable Entities
By: Matthew M. Bartlett
4.17
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
A supermarket meat manager carves a doorway to a parallel world of bloody horror. A fading magician…
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1. 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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"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
2. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
By: John Langan
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated profess… read more
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3. The Ones That Got Away
By: Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that go… read more
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4. Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales
By: Jordan Krall , Christopher Slatsky
3.41
Format: None pages,
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5. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more
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6. Teatro Grottesco
By: Thomas Ligotti
4.29
Format: 128 pages,
This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns,… read more
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7. Experimental Film
By: Gemma Files
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more
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"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
8. 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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9. Dark Gods
By: T.E.D. Klein
4.09
Format: 261 pages, Mass Market Paperback
T.E.D. Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies - which Stephen King called "the most ex… read more
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10. 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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"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)
11. 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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12. We Can Never Leave This Place
By: Eric LaRocca
3.52
Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition
"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away." A precocious young girl with an unus… read more
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"We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much."-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place
"We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much."-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place
"How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you."-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place
"I watched as blood swirled down my naked body in dark ribbons—tiny threads that had forever come undone from me and were sent to freedom."-Eric LaRocca, We Can Never Leave This Place
13. The Apparition Phase
By: Will Maclean
3.91
Format: 384 pages, ebook
An atmospheric and stunning literary debut, reminiscent of the gothic suspense of Shirley Jackson a… read more
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14. The Store
By: Bentley Little
3.81
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A malevolent presence has come to a small desert town, and the customers of this superstore may get… read more
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"This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here."-Bentley Little, The Store
"Human beings' capacity to adjust to almost anything was supposed to be one of their greatest virtues, but it was also one of their greatest weaknesses. It rendered them compliant, allowed them to be …"-Bentley Little, The Store
"He stared out the window and found himself thinking of that old Randy Newman song, "It's Money That Matters." It was money that mattered, wasn't it? He shook his head. Times had changed. Twenty years…"-Bentley Little, The Store
15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. The Stay-Awake Men and Other Unstable Entities
By: Matthew M. Bartlett
4.17
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
A supermarket meat manager carves a doorway to a parallel world of bloody horror. A fading magician… read more
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19. Maggots Screaming!
By: Max Booth III
4.25
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
On a hot summer weekend in San Antonio, Texas, a father and son bond after discovering three imposs… read more
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20. Nothing is Everything
By: Simon Strantzas
3.98
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Nothing is Everything’ is the masterful new collection from acclaimed Canadian author Simon Strant… read more
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21. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)
By: Nathan Ballingrud
4.18
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more
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