7 must-read speculative fiction books like Porgee's Boar by Jonathan Carroll

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Porgee's Boar

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.79

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

An artist's work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best cust…

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Porgee's Boar by Jonathan Carroll , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star

By: Kathleen Ann Goonan

3.91

Format: 160 pages, ebook

"A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star", by Kathleen Ann Goonan, … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Ann Goonan's A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star book and Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar

  • short stories
  • fiction

2. The Hanging Game

By: Helen Marshall

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, ebook

Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Sky… read more

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3. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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4. Tear Tracks

By: Malka Ann Older

3.89

Format: None pages, ebook

Flur traveled across the stars to make first contact with the Cyclopes, hoping to forge a peace tre… read more

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5. Please Undo This Hurt

By: Seth Dickinson

4.16

Format: None pages, ebook

Ever feel like you care too much? After a breakup, after the funeral...it feels like the way to win… read more

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6. Six Months, Three Days

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.73

Format: 216 pages,

Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, bran… read more

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7. In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.92

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. D.I.Y

By: John Wiswell

3.76

Format: 25 pages, ebook

When the the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can't … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. This Place Is Best Shunned

By: David Erik Nelson

3.43

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Allie and Rooster are heading down to Asheville for Rooster’s new gig, a cushy stint as artist-in-r… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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10. Blood in the Thread

By: Cheri Kamei

3.86

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.Nothing tears two wo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man

By: Rich Larson

4.38

Format: 35 pages, ebook

When an illicit trade deal goes wrong and Quandary is blamed for it, she goes on the run to avoid t… read more

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  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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12. The Puppetmaster

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.71

Format: 15 pages, ebook

A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken...and … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Porgee's Boar

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.79

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

An artist's work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best cust… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar book and Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar

  • magical realism
  • crime
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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14. Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds

By: Indrapramit Das

3.29

Format: 32 pages, ebook

A student of multiversal time travel slips from one version of New York to another, discovering th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. After the Animal Flesh Beings

By: Brian Evenson

3.85

Format: 23 pages, ebook

A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more

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  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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16. How to Cook and Eat the Rich

By: Sunyi Dean

3.78

Format: 9 pages, ebook

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. No Flight Without the Shatter

By: Brooke Bolander

3.76

Format: 32 pages, ebook

From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares… read more

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  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
"Hatching is not the end of what lies inside the egg, only the end of the shell around it. There’s no flight without the shatter, and no flock without the flight. What we’re made of will go on. A fled…"

-Brooke Bolander, No Flight Without the Shatter

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18. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

By: Tina Connolly

4.23

Format: 30 pages, ebook

A young food taster to the Traitor King must make a difficult choice in this story of pastries, mag… read more

Similar categories in Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections book and Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar

  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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19. Exile's End

By: Carolyn Ives Gilman

4.03

Format: 48 pages, ebook

Exile's End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"How do you lose your name? When people stop telling your story. Why must we tell our story? Because others start telling it for us."

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

"He came to the prison of ghosts; For Hoarder people do not free their dead. Their feet fall heavy, weighted by the past They do not hear the spirits cry for freedom They heap up secrets in an archive…"

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

"Let’s sing of the lightbeam journey Of the man who was not a man Sent by the Whispering Kindom To search the sky for ghosts. How did he find the way? He followed the poison papers, He followed the sc…"

-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End

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20. Two Truths and a Lie

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.79

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more

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  • magical realism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."

-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie

Cover of The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch by Garth Nix

21. The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch

By: Garth Nix

3.92

Format: 34 pages, ebook

A new short story from Garth Nix, best-selling author of the Old Kingdom series.In this raucous, st… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch book and Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript (Judge Dee, #5) by Lavie Tidhar

22. Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript (Judge Dee, #5)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.12

Format: 39 pages, ebook

Judge Dee must himself stand trial before his fellow vampires for the loss of a valuable manuscript… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Form 8774-D

By: Alex Irvine

3.91

Format: 54 pages, ebook

It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employe… read more

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  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal (Judge Dee, #7) by Lavie Tidhar

25. Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal (Judge Dee, #7)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.10

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Unknown forces attempt to stop Judge Dee and Jonathan from transporting a mysterious and possibly d… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Men, Women, and Chainsaws

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.94

Format: 37 pages, ebook

It's been two years since Jenna's ex-boyfriend left her alone in East Texas heartbroken. Now he's b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. The Thief of Memory

By: Sunyi Dean

3.75

Format: 26 pages, ebook

The Hero must journey across the desert to capture The Thief Of Memory and retrieve her stolen memo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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28. Choke

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

3.40

Format: 22 pages, ebook

A night of food, fun, and festivities quickly turns sour. But what else can you expect when your an… read more

Similar categories in Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Choke book and Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Even If Such Ways Are Bad

By: Rich Larson

3.54

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A two-person crew embark on a mind-bending deep space mission inside a living wormship capable of b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Murder in the Spook House (The Mongolian Wizard, #8) by Michael Swanwick

30. Murder in the Spook House (The Mongolian Wizard, #8)

By: Michael Swanwick

3.53

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder in the Spook House is eighth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-w… read more

Similar categories in Michael Swanwick's Murder in the Spook House (The Mongolian Wizard, #8) book and Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar

  • fantasy
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
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31. The Alice Run

By: Nancy Kress

3.69

Format: 35 pages, ebook

A comatose patient undergoes an experimental procedure that uses favorite childhood stories to pull… read more

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  • short stories

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4.04

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E. Lily Yu

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