Antisocieties
By: Michael Cisco
4.01
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
ANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation - what it does to people, and what iso…
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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism
By: Jon Padgett
3.90
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazi… read more
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"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism
2. 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
3. Occultation and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.08
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more
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4. Fugue State
By: Brian Evenson , Zak Sally
3.35
Format: 520 pages,
Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian Evenson's hallucinatory and darkly comic stories o… read more
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5. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.00
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more
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"Wisdom devours the weak."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
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. American Elsewhere
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on… read more
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8. 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
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"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
"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
"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
9. Greener Pastures
By: Michael Wehunt , Michael Bukowski
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
*Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, Single-Author Collection* *Shortlisted for the Crawford Award* *Ru… read more
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10. The Auctioneer
By: Ed Gorman , Joan Samson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as the… read more
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11. Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
By: Clive Barker
4.04
Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that h… read more
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"Logic is the last refuge of a coward."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"Es war ekelerregend, es war sauberste Arbeit, und es verwirrte zutiefst."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad."-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
"I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies... "In the Hills, the Cities"-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)
12. The House on the Borderland
By: William Hope Hodgson
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more
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13. 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
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14. 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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"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
15. Helpmeet
By: Naben Ruthnum
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more
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"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet
16. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
17. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
By: Brian Evenson
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more
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" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
18. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
19. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
By: Brian Evenson
4.10
Format: 254 pages, ebook
“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more
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20. Antisocieties
By: Michael Cisco
4.01
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
ANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation - what it does to people, and what iso… read more
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21. To Be Devoured
By: Sara Tantlinger
3.82
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more
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