20 Best short stories books like The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise

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The Ghost Sequences

By: A.C. Wise

3.98

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

From A.C. Wise, the acclaimed author of Wendy, Darling, comes a brand new collection of horror stor…

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1. And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A murdered movie star reaches out to an unlikely fan. An orchard is bewitched with poison apples an… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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2. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight

By: Ellen Datlow

3.72

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A town is held hostage by an unholy bargain made by some of the inhabitants; a party game on Hallow… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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3. 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

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Experimental Film book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"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

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4. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

4.06

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

5. 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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6. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • ghosts
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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7. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
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8. Twice Cursed

By: Marie O'Regan

3.90

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to th… read more

Similar categories in Marie O'Regan's Twice Cursed book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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9. The Remaking

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.24

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a ta… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's The Remaking book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"You men always try to tell our story. You men always get it wrong."

-Clay McLeod Chapman, The Remaking

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10. 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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

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

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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11. 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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"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. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. 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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

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

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

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15. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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16. 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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • 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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18. 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

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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19. 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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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20. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Spin a Black Yarn book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
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21. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's Linghun book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • ghosts
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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22. 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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

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

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

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23. The Ghost Sequences

By: A.C. Wise

3.98

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

From A.C. Wise, the acclaimed author of Wendy, Darling, comes a brand new collection of horror stor… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • ghosts
  • collections
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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24. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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25. The Dismembered

By: Jonathan Janz

3.95

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disa… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's The Dismembered book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

Similar categories in Paula D. Ashe's We Are Here to Hurt Each Other book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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27. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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28. 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 A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 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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29. Grotesquerie

By: Richard Gavin

3.93

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Richard Gavin’s “grotesquerie,” where fear and faith converge in eerie and nightmarish t… read more

Similar categories in Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

30. 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

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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31. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4)

By: Paula Guran

3.70

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series returns with a splendidly startling fourth volume! Fr… read more

Similar categories in Paula Guran's The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4) book and A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy

29 Top fiction books like The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise

Transform Your Habits

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe

Gwendolyn Kiste

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight

Ellen Datlow

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Experimental Film

Gemma Files

3.56

Transform Your Habits

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

John Langan

4.06

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26 must-read fiction books like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 4) by Paula Guran

Transform Your Habits

The Ones That Got Away

Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron

3.71

Transform Your Habits

A Night in the Lonesome October

Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

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