12 Best horror books like The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels by Mark Samuels

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The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels

By: Mark Samuels

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

For the past two decades, British author Mark Samuels has written some of the most vibrant and chal…

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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism

By: Jon Padgett

3.90

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazi… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."

-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

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2. #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

By: Robin Mackay , Armen Avanessian

3.94

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radica… read more

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"The subject of theory can no longer affect to stand outside the process it describes: it is integrated as an immanent machine part in an open ended experimentation that is inextricable from capital’s…"

-Robin Mackay, #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

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3. El hijo de la bestia y otros relatos de terror y sexo extravagante

By: Graham Masterton , None

4.14

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

En El Hijo de la Bestia y otras historias de terror y sexo extravagante, Graham Masterton nos lleva… read more

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  • horror
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4. Forever, in Pieces

By: Kurt Fawver

4.15

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

EIGHTEEN HAUNTING VISIONS . . . FROM A MIND ADROITLY TWISTED In this debut collection of short f… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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5. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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  • horror
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6. Hardcase (Joe Kurtz, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge--and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs … read more

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7. 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
  • horror
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8. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

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  • horror
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

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9. Welcome to the Arms Race

By: Justin Isis

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Churches made of meat, spaceships powered by song, simulated authors and a soul-warping artwork tha… read more

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  • short stories

10. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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11. I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like

By: Justin Isis

3.68

Format: 420 pages,

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12. 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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13. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

By: R.A. Dick , Josephine Leslie

4.28

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Co… read more

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14. My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

By: Thomas Ligotti , None

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse."

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all i…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

"It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world’s midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular att…"

-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

15. 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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16. El cielo de la selva

By: Elaine Vilar Madruga

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

La selva es un dios hambriento. Uno que permite vivir a salvo en sus dominios pero exige el más alt… read more

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  • horror
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17. 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
  • horror
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18. The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels

By: Mark Samuels

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

For the past two decades, British author Mark Samuels has written some of the most vibrant and chal… read more

Similar categories in Mark Samuels's The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels book and Mark Samuels's The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels

  • short stories
  • cthulhu mythos
  • horror
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19. Likely Stories

By: Neil Gaiman

3.38

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman and Eisner-award winning creator Mark Buckingha… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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20. Los secretos de las Tierras Intermedias: Más allá de "Elden Ring" (LunwerGG) (Spanish Edition)

By: Adrián Suárez Mouriño

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Ilustrado por Adrián PradoPrólogo de Álex Pareja ¿Estás listo para regresar a las Tierras Intermed… read more

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21. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

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The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

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Forever, in Pieces

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3.91

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4.00

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4.08

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Laird Barron

3.98

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