The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: Ten Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
By: Ellen Datlow
3.76
Format: 554 pages, Kindle Edition
For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most f…
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1. Halloween Carnival Volume 1
By: Brian James Freeman , Robert McCammon , Kevin Lucia , Lisa Morton , Mark Allan Gunnells , John Little
4.17
Format: None pages, ebook
STRANGE CANDY by Robert McCammon Chocolate bars and sour suckers are trick-or-treat staples, but be… read more
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- fiction
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2. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
By: Laird Barron
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more
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- collections
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
3. Best New Horror 24 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #24)
By: Neil Gaiman , Steve Rasnic Tem , Gemma Files , Kim Newman , Stephen Jones , Joel Lane , Ramsey Campbell , Glen Hirshberg , Lynda E. Rucker , Joe R. Lansdale , Alison Littlewood , Simon Kurt Unsworth , Reggie Oliver , Thana Niveau , Terry Dowling , Robert Shearman , Michael Kelly , Stephen Volk , Dale Bailey , Mark Valentine , Helen Marshall , Evangeline Walton , None
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
For nearly twenty-five years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror has been the world's leading annua… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- supernatural
- fantasy
4. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
5. Chills
By: Mary SanGiovanni
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
It begins with a freak snowstorm in May. Hit hardest is the rural town of Colby, Connecticut. Schoo… read more
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- supernatural
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- horror
6. Blackwater Lights
By: Michael M. Hughes
3.95
Format: None pages, ebook
Michael M. Hughes's Blackwater Lightscombines the eldritch horror of H. P. Lovecraft with the super… read more
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- fiction
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7. 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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- short stories
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- horror
- fantasy
8. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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- collections
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- short stories
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- horror
- fantasy
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
9. Skeleton Crew
By: Stephen King
3.15
Format: None pages,
Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book . In the intro… read more
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10. Kissing Carrion
By: Gemma Files
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Paperback
In this first published collection of short stories from one of Canada's most talented rising stars… read more
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11. Interior Darkness: Selected Stories
By: Peter Straub
3.85
Format: 370 pages, ebook
A MONUMENTAL COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION FROM ACCLAIMED MASTER OF HORROR AND NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELL… read more
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12. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Douglas V. Steere
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, the Danish writer Sore… read more
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13. 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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14. Ancient Images
By: Ramsey Campbell
4.60
Format: 200 pages,
A colleague's violent death and its apparent cause - a stolen copy of an old, never-released Karlof… read more
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15. The Night Cyclist
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.88
Format: None pages, ebook
"The Night Cyclist" by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose ni… read more
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16. You Like It Darker
By: Stephen King
4.32
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
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- audiobook
17. Where the Dead Wait
By: Ally Wilkes
3.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more
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- fantasy
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"Why would I want to die last?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
18. Piñata
By: Leopoldo Gout
3.67
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more
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19. Bad Dolls
By: Rachel Harrison
3.73
Format: 132 pages, ebook
In this stunning new collection of four horror stories, award-winning author Rachel Harrison explor… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
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- fantasy
- audiobook
20. 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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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- audiobook
21. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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22. These Things Linger
By: Dan Franklin
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
When Alex Wilson's estranged uncle unexpectedly dies, Alex realizes he would do just about anything… read more
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23. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
By: Sadie Hartmann
4.43
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more
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"I love a good story about everyone dying."-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
24. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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25. Incidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more
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26. The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: Ten Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
By: Ellen Datlow
3.76
Format: 554 pages, Kindle Edition
For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most f… read more
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- short stories
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- horror
- zombies
- supernatural
- fantasy
- audiobook
27. The Toll
By: Cherie Priest
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Dri… read more
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28. In the Shadow of Spindrift House
By: Mira Grant
3.67
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Nature abhors a straight line. The natural world is a place of curves and softened edges, of gentle… read more
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"Everything that’s loved lives."-Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House
"Spindrift House has had a great deal of time to decide what it wants to be, and what it wants to be is unforgiving."-Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House
"Spindrift House was waiting, door gaping wide, to swallow us don and begin to the long, terrible process of digestion."-Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House
"That isn't the mystery that gets us paid," said Addison. "No, but it's the mystery that's going to make me wish I'd brought a lot more pot."-Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House
29. Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror
By: Jacob Steven Mohr
4.29
Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition
Some horrors were never meant to be unearthed. Evil lurks within the pages of Dead Letters: Epis… read more
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"A new year for new sins."-Jacob Steven Mohr, Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror
30. The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared
By: Randall Sullivan
3.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Part true crime story, part historical account, part religious and literary analysis, an investigat… read more
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- horror
31. Dear Hanna
By: Zoje Stage
3.73
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Bab… read more
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