7 Best folklore books like Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology by Richard Wells

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Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

By: Richard Wells

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted lands…

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1. Devil's Day

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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2. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural

3. The Cellar

By: Richard Laymon

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Visitors flock to see the Beast House with its blood-soaked corridors and creaky doors. Armed with … read more

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4. At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories

By: Kij Johnson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have r… read more

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5. Thirteen Guests

By: J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

On a fine autumn weekend, Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. A… read more

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6. The Definitive Guide To Screenwriting

By: Syd Field

3.21

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Published for the first time in the UK, Syd Field, acclaimed writer and director, tells you step-by… read more

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7. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) by Emma Mieko Candon

8. The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1)

By: Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's b… read more

Similar categories in Emma Mieko Candon's The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence, #1) book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga by Icy Sedgwick

9. Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga

By: Icy Sedgwick

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Rebel Folklore gathers 50 of the darkest and most complicated folktale characters from around the w… read more

Similar categories in Icy Sedgwick's Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • folklore
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay

10. 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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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain

By: John Miller

3.61

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Folk horror meets classic ghost stories in this new Tales of the Weird anthology Woods play a cr… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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12. From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea

By: Mike Ashley

3.79

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

From atop the choppy waves to the choking darkness of the abyss, the seas are full of mystery and r… read more

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  • classics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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13. Stitches

By: Hirokatsu Kihara

3.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Horror manga giant Junji Ito teams up with spooky story writer Hirokatsu Kihara for the ultimate co… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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14. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jeffs's Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • short stories
  • folklore
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15. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: David T. Neal

3.75

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror is a collection of nine short stories that h… read more

Similar categories in David T. Neal's The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • anthologies
  • folklore
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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17. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror by Stephen              Jones

18. The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror

By: Stephen Jones

3.87

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil... with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon… read more

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  • anthologies
  • folklore
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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19. The Dark Between the Trees

By: Fiona Barnett

3.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern Englan… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. When Things Get Dark

By: Ellen Datlow

3.90

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's When Things Get Dark book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."

-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark

Cover of Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous by Ellen Datlow

21. Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous

By: Ellen Datlow

3.67

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

A bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor, Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contain… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
Cover of Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson

22. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

Similar categories in Marion Gibson's Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • adult
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

Cover of Howls from the Dark Ages by P.L. McMillan

23. Howls from the Dark Ages

By: P.L. McMillan

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured s… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs

24. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jeffs's Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • short stories
  • folklore
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25. Help the Witch

By: Tom Cox

3.71

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

As night draws through country lanes, and darkness sweeps across hills and darkness sweeps across h… read more

Similar categories in Tom Cox's Help the Witch book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
"Each day the pair would meet at 2pm at the exact halfway point between the villages and stand a hundred yards apart, staring longingly at each other, yearning for the time when the pestilence would p…"

-Tom Cox, Help the Witch

Cover of Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology by Richard  Wells

26. Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

By: Richard Wells

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Damnable Tales is an illustrated collection of classic short stories drawing upon the haunted lands… read more

Similar categories in Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • classics
  • literature
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • folklore
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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27. American Rapture

By: C.J. Leede

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sop… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's American Rapture book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Blood on Satan's Claw: or, The Devil's Skin by Robert Wynne-Simmons

28. Blood on Satan's Claw: or, The Devil's Skin

By: Robert Wynne-Simmons

3.98

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Beware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs... Blood on S… read more

Similar categories in Robert Wynne-Simmons's Blood on Satan's Claw: or, The Devil's Skin book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries by Otto Penzler

29. The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries

By: Otto Penzler

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler returns with a new anthology assembling Victorian society's… read more

Similar categories in Otto Penzler's The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • classics
  • anthologies
Cover of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore

30. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

By: Tabitha Stanmore

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more

Similar categories in Tabitha Stanmore's Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • adult
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31. A Mask of Flies

By: Matthew Lyons

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons is a crime horror novel which blends It Follows and The Outsider, … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Lyons's A Mask of Flies book and Richard Wells's Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology

  • supernatural
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

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