The Puppet King and Other Atonements
By: Justin A. Burnett
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The Puppet King and Other Atonements conjures a horrific universe of puppets, labyrinths, and limin…
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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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- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"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. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
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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- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
4. The Gone World
By: Tom Sweterlitsch
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more
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- fiction
- horror
5. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
6. 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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7. Between Two Fires
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires
"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires
"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires
"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires
8. 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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9. 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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10. Universal Harvester
By: John Darnielle
4.04
Format: None pages,
Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more
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11. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
12. Songs of a Dead Dreamer
By: Thomas Ligotti
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
Songs of a Dreamerwas Thomas Ligotti's first collection of supernatural horror stories. When origin… read more
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13. 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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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"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
14. Ozark Dogs
By: Eli Cranor
3.72
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more
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- fiction
15. 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
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
16. The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)
By: Laird Barron
4.31
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new… read more
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- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
17. 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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- 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
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
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- weird fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
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
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
20. Revelator
By: Daryl Gregory
3.98
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It…"-Daryl Gregory, Revelator
21. What Remains When The Stars Burn Out
By: P.L. McMillan
4.13
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
"A gift of cosmic horror by someone who truly gets it. The imagination here runs the gauntlet acros… read more
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- short stories
- horror
22. 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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23. 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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- short stories
- fiction
- 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
24. Abnormal Statistics
By: Max Booth III
3.99
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Suburban decay, familial horror, bleak lullabies. Abnormal Statistics is the debut story collection… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"There are always concerns. Eating holes in your stomach. Scrambling your brain. Making your skin itch and itch and itch. Sometimes it feels like too much for a kid your age to handle. Sometimes it fe…"-Max Booth III, Abnormal Statistics
25. 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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- short stories
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- horror
26. The Puppet King and Other Atonements
By: Justin A. Burnett
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The Puppet King and Other Atonements conjures a horrific universe of puppets, labyrinths, and limin… read more
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- horror
27. 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
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- fiction
- horror
28. The Forgotten Island
By: David Sodergren
3.90
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
When Ana Logan agrees to go on holiday to Thailand with her estranged sister Rachel, she hopes it w… read more
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- fiction
- horror
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
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- 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
30. None of You Shall Be Spared
By: Brian Evenson
4.13
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
It's coming for all of us. This brilliant collection contains twenty of Brian Evenson's most spe… read more
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- fiction
- horror
31. Isolation: The Horror Anthology
By: M.R. Carey
3.50
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A chilling horror anthology of 18 stories about the terrifying fears of isolation, from the modern … read more
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