Dead Relatives
By: Lucie McKnight Hardy
3.92
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The L…
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1. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- horror
"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
2. The Loney
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere be… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- contemporary
3. 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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- gothic
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- horror
4. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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- literary fiction
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- contemporary
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
6. Nails and Eyes
By: Kaori Fujino
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
7. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- horror
8. The Dolls
By: Ursula Scavenius
3.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Strange, macabre, and unsettling: Short stories from the Danish master of absurdist fiction In … read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- dark
- horror
- fiction
9. Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
By: Aviaq Johnston
3.74
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“Taaqtumi” is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark”—and these spine-tingling horror stories by… read more
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- gothic
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
10. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- mystery
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
11. A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Du… read more
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- gothic
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
12. Parallel Hells
By: Leon Craig
3.31
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in ref… read more
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- gothic
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
13. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
By: Matthieu Simard
3.66
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- horror
14. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Animals Eat Each Other
By: Elle Nash
3.48
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more
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- literary fiction
- dark
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
16. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
17. Fragile Animals
By: Genevieve Jagger
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
18. Supplication
By: Nour Abi-Nakhoul
2.67
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A hallucinatory literary horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a change… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
19. Dead Relatives
By: Lucie McKnight Hardy
3.92
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The L… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- british literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- dark
- horror
20. Absorbed
By: Kylie Whitehead
3.73
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Allison has been with Owen since university. She's given up on writing her novel and is working a d… read more
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- literary fiction
- dark
- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Where I End
By: Sophie White
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
