20 must-read fiction books like The Nightfarers by Mark Valentine

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The Nightfarers

By: Mark Valentine

4.61

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Sewn hardcover, limited to 300 copies, 191pp with end papers and an original frontispiece. To fi…

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Cover of Berserk, Vol. 4 (Berserk, #4) by Kentaro Miura, Duane Johnson

1. Berserk, Vol. 4 (Berserk, #4)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Now that the evil Count has been killed and dragged to Hell by the demon lords of the Godhand, Guts… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Berserk, Vol. 8 (Berserk, #8)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.69

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The century-spanning war between Midland and Chuder continues unabated. The two warring kingdoms, v… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"It's all right. It's like stumbling on a rock on the roadside. It's petty...a small thing. The place you want to go...is more distant farther off. So...it's all right. You'll stand up. And you'll sta…"

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 8 (Berserk, #8)

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3. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Roger Garland

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

This adventure book tells of Tom's encounters with the River-woman's beautiful daughter, Old Man Wi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Para siempre un mensajero, Un viajero demorado, Errante como una pluma, Un marinero guiado por el viento."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

"There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the Moon himself came down one night to drink his fill."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

"There was a merry passenger, a messenger, a mariner: he built a gilded gondola to wander in, and had in her a load of yellow oranges and porridge for his provender; he perfumed her with marjoram and …"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

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4. Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more

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  • fiction
"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

Cover of Berserk, Vol. 6 (Berserk, #6) by Kentaro Miura, Duane Johnson

5. Berserk, Vol. 6 (Berserk, #6)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.62

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Back in the day, Guts the Black Swordsman was a top slayer for The Band of the Hawk, an elite merce… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Berserk, Vol. 5 (Berserk, #5) by Kentaro Miura, Duane Johnson

6. Berserk, Vol. 5 (Berserk, #5)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.61

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a warrior of legendary prowess. Relentless, fearless, merciless. A… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Man takes up the sword in order to shield the small wound in his heart sustained in a far-off time beyond remembrance. Man wields the sword so that he may die smiling in some far-off time beyond perc…"

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 5 (Berserk, #5)

Cover of Berserk, Vol. 9 by Kentaro Miura, Duane Johnson

7. Berserk, Vol. 9

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.68

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Griffith, charismatic leader of the elite mercenary Band of the Hawk, has seen better days. His fea… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7) by Kentaro Miura, Duane Johnson

8. Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

By: Kentaro Miura , Duane Johnson

4.62

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Two feudal kingdoms, Midland and Chuder, battle for supremacy in what will become the final clash i… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Dreams. Win or lose... I'm sure you could spend your whole life chasing one."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

"Even these thoughts will slip my mind in time. And then..... ...only... ...the beat of my heart still remains."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 7 (Berserk, #7)

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9. These Charming People

By: Michael Arlen

3.77

Format: None pages,

Michael Arlen wrote of the fast set of Mayfair and Belgravia, those who were to be termed the Lost … read more

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10. England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

By: David Keenan

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Based on several years' worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' … read more

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11. Concrete Island

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over th… read more

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  • fiction
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12. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

14. The White People

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal … read more

Similar categories in Arthur Machen's The White People book and Mark Valentine's The Nightfarers

  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

15. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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16. Nine Ghosts

By: R.H. Malden

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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17. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

18. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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19. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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20. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror

21. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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22. Maiden Voyage

By: Denton Welch

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Denton Welch's first novel Maiden Voyage(1946) recounts Welch's adventures as a boy when, after run… read more

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23. Copsford

By: None

4.02

Format: 360 pages,

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24. Expect Me Tomorrow

By: Christopher Priest

3.58

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A petty thief known as John Smith was arrested for fraudulent behavior in 1877. He tricked women in… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison

25. 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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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Nightfarers by Mark Valentine

26. The Nightfarers

By: Mark Valentine

4.61

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Sewn hardcover, limited to 300 copies, 191pp with end papers and an original frontispiece. To fi… read more

Similar categories in Mark Valentine's The Nightfarers book and Mark Valentine's The Nightfarers

  • weird fiction
  • english literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird) by Michael Wheatley

27. The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird)

By: Michael Wheatley

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many writers in the early twentieth century particularly were fascinated by Pan as a figure of unbr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. Therapeutic Tales

By: R. Ostermeier

4.52

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

“—it was then Doktor Gaitskill asked me the question that led to this book. Are we stranger than pe… read more

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29. The Settlements

By: O. Jamie Walsh

4.48

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Set in a community where people live according to their creative drives, this “endlessly surprising… read more

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30. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

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3.81

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3.64

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Arthur Machen

4.57

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R.H. Malden

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3.46

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4.14

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