18 Best anthologies books like A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino

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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…

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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

Similar categories in Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."

-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

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2. Nightmare Carnival

By: Genevieve Valentine , Ellen Datlow , Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron , Robert Shearman

3.58

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A boy's eleventh birthday heralds the arrival of a bizarre new entourage, a suicidal diva just can'… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Valentine's Nightmare Carnival book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

By: Edogawa Rampo , James B. Harris

4.05

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's be… read more

Similar categories in Edogawa Rampo's Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"This “thing"

-Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

"Why would a man become crazy if he entered a glass globe lined with a mirror? What in the name of the devil had he seen there? . . . Did he go made after taking a glance at himself reflected by a com…"

-Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

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4. 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

Similar categories in Laird Barron's Occultation and Other Stories book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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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

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. 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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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

7. 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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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. Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood , S.T. Joshi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Spine-tingling supernatural tales from "the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmospher… read more

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10. Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction

By: Matthew M. Bartlett

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinis… read more

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11. The Weird and the Eerie

By: Mark Fisher

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more

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12. 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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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

Similar categories in Kathe Koja's The Cipher book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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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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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • 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

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15. 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

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1

By: James D. Jenkins

4.13

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, … read more

Similar categories in James D. Jenkins's The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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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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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
" 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

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18. 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 Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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19. 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 Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. 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 Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • horror
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21. 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

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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22. Ghostwritten

By: Ronald Malfi

4.12

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, man… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Ghostwritten book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"myself asks am i here? i've lost myself i fear"

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

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23. 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 Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. 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 Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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25. Swedish Cults

By: Anders Fager

3.47

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager’s stories, Sweden is revealed as… read more

Similar categories in Anders Fager's Swedish Cults book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

By: Bernardo Esquinca

4.14

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."

-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

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27. No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories

By: Premee Mohamed

4.00

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A collection of short fiction by award-winning author Premee Mohamed. read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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28. 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

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  • italy
  • dark fantasy
  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wehunt's The Inconsolables book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

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30. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Coolidge's Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories book and Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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31. The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library

By: Darrell Schweitzer

4.08

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Miskatonic University, in fabled Arkham Massachusetts, has long been described in the fiction of H.… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

25 must-read fiction books like A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino

Transform Your Habits

The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Nightmare Carnival

Genevieve Valentine , Ellen Datlow , Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron , Robert Shearman

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Edogawa Rampo , James B. Harris

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

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18 Best fiction books like Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John Langan

Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Croning

Laird Barron

3.73

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