The Great Nocturnal: Tales of Dread
By: Jean Ray
3.70
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In English for the first time, the collection that launched Jean Ray's reputation as the Belgian ma…
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1. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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- fiction
"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
2. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.64
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more
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- fiction
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"What does the border look like?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"I hope to find Area X in Area X."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"The time for expeditions was over."-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
"Was this first contact, or last contact?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
3. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
By: Laird Barron
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
4. Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
By: Thomas Ligotti
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Seeking deadly justice when she and her invalid father receive next to nothing in a lawsuit settlem… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
5. The Hellbound Heart
By: Clive Barker
4.07
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
6. Last Days
By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more
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- fiction
- horror
7. Drood
By: Dan Simmons
3.50
Format: None pages,
Drood... is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his lif… read more
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- fiction
- horror
8. Maldoror and Poems
By: Comte de Lautréamont , None , Paul Knight
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Alternate version of . 'It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a f… read more
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- france
- fiction
- horror
9. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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- fiction
10. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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- fiction
11. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
By: Alex Haley
3.33
Format: None pages,
When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about th… read more
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- fiction
12. The Divinity Student
By: Michael Cisco , Harry O. Morris
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp … read more
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- fiction
- horror
13. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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- fiction
14. The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1)
By: F. Paul Wilson
3.61
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
"Something is murdering my men." Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in… read more
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- fiction
- horror
15. 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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16. The King in Yellow
By: Robert W. Chambers
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
17. The Book of Monelle
By: Marcel Schwob , Kit Schluter
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in 1894, it immediately became the uno… read more
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18. Hell House
By: Richard Matheson
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more
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19. 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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20. The House on the Borderland
By: William Hope Hodgson
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the s… read more
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21. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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22. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more
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23. Animal Money
By: Michael Cisco
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A living form of money results in the unraveling of the world. "The bank is there to save and lend.… read more
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24. 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
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
25. Devil House
By: John Darnielle
3.22
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."-John Darnielle, Devil House
"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
26. 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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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
27. Death in Her Hands
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.24
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more
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- horror
"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
28. The Great Nocturnal: Tales of Dread
By: Jean Ray
3.70
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In English for the first time, the collection that launched Jean Ray's reputation as the Belgian ma… read more
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- european literature
- short stories
- france
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- horror
29. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
By: M. John Harrison
3.39
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a deca… read more
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- horror
30. In the House in the Dark of the Woods
By: Laird Hunt
3.33
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this ingenious h… read more
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- horror
