A Trick of the Shadow
By: R. Ostermeier
4.62
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
R. Ostermeier lives and works on the peninsula. This first collection of strange tales draws predom…
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1. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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- fiction
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"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
2. After Dark, My Sweet
By: Jim Thompson
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping fro… read more
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- fiction
3. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more
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- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
4. Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
By: Max Gladstone
3.90
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The new novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead Shadow demon… read more
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- fiction
"To desperation,"-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
"I’m on a quest, I think,"-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
"Everyone likes to be needed."-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
"You live in a grim universe."-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
5. The Hill of Dreams
By: Arthur Machen
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through so… read more
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- weird fiction
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6. 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
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- weird fiction
- fiction
- horror
7. Swan Song
By: Robert McCammon
4.10
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more
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- fiction
- horror
8. Full Fathom Five (Craft Sequence, #3)
By: Max Gladstone
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
The third novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead. On the islan… read more
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9. 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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- 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
10. Boys in the Valley
By: Philip Fracassi
4.18
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more
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- horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
11. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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- horror
12. A Child Alone With Strangers
By: Philip Fracassi
4.28
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
When the young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by mile… read more
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- horror
13. Some Desperate Glory
By: Emily Tesh
4.06
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more
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"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
14. 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
15. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.89
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
16. A Trick of the Shadow
By: R. Ostermeier
4.62
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
R. Ostermeier lives and works on the peninsula. This first collection of strange tales draws predom… read more
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17. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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18. Creation: On Art and Unbecoming
By: Christopher Zeischegg
4.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
"Creation is a stunning new collection by one of the most exciting living writers. Reading a Christ… read more
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19. Old Children
By: Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs
4.33
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
“Another world was beside them even now. Jack would never be able to articulate it, but he knew the… read more
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20. The Egotist
By: Philip Fracassi
3.95
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Follow the hysterically dark memoirs of a brutish young man as he struggles with the confines of ad… read more
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