9 Best fantasy books like The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson

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The Best of Richard Matheson

By: Richard Matheson

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th ce…

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1. Stories from the Twilight Zone

By: Rod Serling , T.E.D. Klein

4.20

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

You are traveling into another dimension... A dimension of splendor, terror and wonder—a shadow lan… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"I only wanted to tell you that this was the wonderful time for you. Don’t let any of it go by without enjoying it. There won’t be any more merry-go-rounds. No more cotton candy. No more band concerts…"

-Rod Serling, Stories from the Twilight Zone

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2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

By: Jack Finney

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."

-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 3

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Michael Williams , Clive Merrison , Bert Coules

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Audio CD

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in the first collection of stories fr… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Floating Staircase

By: Ronald Malfi

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Soon after Travis and his wife move into their new house by the lake, he becomes convinced the hous… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
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5. Hellstrom's Hive

By: Frank Herbert

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world:… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

6. He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson

By: Stephen King , Thomas F. Monteleone , Gary A. Braunbeck , Nancy A. Collins , Richard Matheson , F. Paul Wilson , Ed Gorman , Joe Hill , Joe R. Lansdale , John Shirley , Whitley Strieber , William F. Nolan , John Maclay , Christopher Conlon , Mick Garris , Michael A. Arnzen , Barry Hoffman

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An anthology of original stories paying tribute to acclaimed short stories and novels of Richard Ma… read more

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7. Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

By: Ray Bradbury , Charles Beaumont , William Shatner

4.39

Format: None pages,

The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zonewriter, w… read more

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8. Ricky Gervais Presents: The World of Karl Pilkington

By: Karl Pilkington , Ricky Gervais , Stephen Merchant

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl Pilkington is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ri… read more

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9. Snow

By: Ronald Malfi

3.62

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Todd Curry wants nothing more than to spend Christmas with his son. But when a brutal snowstorm can… read more

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10. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

By: H.P. Lovecraft , S.T. Joshi

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction Howard Phillips Lovecraft's u… read more

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11. Ancient Images

By: Ramsey Campbell

4.60

Format: 200 pages,

A colleague's violent death and its apparent cause - a stolen copy of an old, never-released Karlof… read more

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12. The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved

By: Colin Wilson , Damon Wilson

4.15

Format: None pages,

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13. Nightmare Magazine, October 2012

By: John Joseph Adams , Jonathan Maberry , Sarah Langan , Peter Straub , Genevieve Valentine , Laird Barron , R.J. Sevin , None

4.67

Format: 46 pages, ebook

Nightmareis an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In its pages you will find all kinds of hor… read more

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14. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

By: M.R. James , James McBride , E.F. Bleiler

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Can… read more

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15. Dark Tales

By: Shirley Jackson

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the q… read more

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16. The Hunger, and Other Stories

By: Charles Beaumont

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When The Hunger and Other Stories (1957) appeared, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont (192… read more

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17. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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18. The Great British Bump-Off (#1-4)

By: John Allison

3.63

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set in the world of English competitive baking from Giant D… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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19. 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

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

-Ronald Malfi, Ghostwritten

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20. Veiled

By: Jeff Strand

3.83

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

The first time their eyes lock, it’s an amused and sympathetic look from Alice at the next table. S… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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22. Midnight Under the Big Top: Tales of Madness, Murder, and Magic

By: Brian James Freeman

4.03

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

Featuring Stephen King, Joe Hill, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Ro… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson

23. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more

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24. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)

By: Dino Buzzati

3.53

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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25. The Best of Richard Matheson

By: Richard Matheson

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th ce… read more

Similar categories in Richard Matheson's The Best of Richard Matheson book and Richard Matheson's The Best of Richard Matheson

  • classics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them Across 25 Eerie British Locations by Neil Oliver

26. Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them Across 25 Eerie British Locations

By: Neil Oliver

3.54

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

' Haunted is a wonderful part history, part rumination on life, and, of course a haunting book abo… read more

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Cover of Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5) by Guillermo del Toro

27. Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.07

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

The mercenaries set an explosive scheme in motion to blow this bad dream to smithereens. But in par… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
Cover of Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4) by Guillermo del Toro

28. Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.02

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

What has been awakened is unbound. The Boy is getting his first taste of freedom. As their comrades… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of Encounter (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6) by Guillermo del Toro

29. Encounter (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.06

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

Dawn breaks, but the nightmare only intensifies in the shocking finale of The Boy in the Iron Box. … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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30. Lost to Eternity

By: Greg Cox

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new Star Trek “movie era” novel from New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox! Thr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Coffin Island (Wesley Peterson) by Kate Ellis

31. Coffin Island (Wesley Peterson)

By: Kate Ellis

4.46

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Despite many years living in South Devon, DI Wesley Peterson has never visited the tiny island of S… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

13 Best horror books like The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson

Transform Your Habits

Stories from the Twilight Zone

Rod Serling , T.E.D. Klein

4.20

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jack Finney

3.89

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Floating Staircase

Ronald Malfi

4.11

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Hellstrom's Hive

Frank Herbert

4.40

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The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

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Stephen King

4.32

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Christina Henry

3.22

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