Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales
By: Orrin Grey
4.29
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Orrin Grey has a knack for cruel stories. Contes Cruel, to be exact. Sardonic Tales like the fou…
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1. Beneath
By: Kristi DeMeester
3.16
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
When reporter Cora Mayburn is assigned to cover a story about a snake-handling cult in rural Appala… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
2. An Augmented Fourth
By: Tony McMillen
4.21
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
Codger Burton, bassist and lyricist for Frivolous Black, the heaviest heavy metal band to ever come… read more
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- horror
3. Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
By: John Langan
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated profess… read more
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- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
4. The Hellbound Heart
By: Clive Barker
4.07
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more
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"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
5. The Raven's Table: Viking Stories
By: Christine Morgan
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
Listen... The furious clangor of battle. The harrowing singing of steel. The desperate cries of wou… read more
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- short stories
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6. Vermilion
By: Molly Tanzer
4.50
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp Gunslinging, chain smoking, Stetson-wearing Taoist ps… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
7. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.00
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more
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- collections
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- horror
- fantasy
"Wisdom devours the weak."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
8. Teatro Grottesco
By: Thomas Ligotti
4.29
Format: 128 pages,
This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns,… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
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9. She Said Destroy
By: Nadia Bulkin
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Word Horde presents the debut collection from critically-acclaimed Weird Fiction author Nadia Bulki… read more
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- short stories
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10. The Trench (MEG, #2)
By: Steve Alten
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth scalpel-sharp. Its power unstoppable as it smashes the steel do… read more
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11. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
By: Agatha Christie
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more
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- fiction
"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)
12. The Gunslinger
By: Stephen King
3.56
Format: None pages,
Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fictionin 1978, the p… read more
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13. Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
By: Steven Erikson , Gabriel Stoian
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers … read more
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- fiction
14. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
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16. Furnace
By: Livia Llewellyn
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them… read more
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17. The Killing Floor Blues (Daniel Faust, #5)
By: Craig Schaefer
4.00
Format: 258 pages,
Nobody has ever escaped from the Iceberg. It's a privately-owned prison deep in the Mojave Desert, … read more
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18. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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- fantasy
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"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
19. The Island of Dr. Moreau
By: H.G. Wells
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more
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20. My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.54
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
You won’t find a more hardcore eighties-slasher-film fan than high school senior Jade Daniels. And … read more
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- horror
"Some girls just don't know how to die."-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
"Is it really winning if everybody dies?"-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
"Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair."-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
"We all become history at some point or another, right?"-Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
21. Night of the Mannequins
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
22. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- fiction
"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
23. Max and the Multiverse (Max and the Multiverse, #1)
By: Zachry Wheeler
3.83
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
* Gold Medal Winner - Global Ebook Awards * Readers' Favorite® 5-Star Selection It's spring bre… read more
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- fiction
24. Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales
By: Orrin Grey
4.29
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Orrin Grey has a knack for cruel stories. Contes Cruel, to be exact. Sardonic Tales like the fou… read more
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- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
25. Memento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows
By: Brian Hauser
3.96
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Underground filmmaker Tina Mori became a legend in the late 1970s with a stolen camera, a series of… read more
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- fiction
- horror
26. Stonefish
By: Scott R. Jones
3.72
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
A missing tech mogul... a jaded reporter... a damaged AI returned from a horrifying reality... and … read more
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- fiction
- horror
27. A Sick Gray Laugh
By: Nicole Cushing
3.78
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Noelle Cashman is no stranger to depression and anxiety. In fact, her entire a… read more
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- horror
28. The Unnamed Country
By: Jeffrey Thomas
3.93
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
“Other countries have conquered us over our long history, and sometimes they changed our name. Hund… read more
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- fiction
- horror
29. The Human Alchemy
By: Michael Griffin
3.89
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
Heralded as one of the leading voices in contemporary weird fiction, Michael Griffin returns with h… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
30. A Hawk in the Woods
By: Carrie Laben
3.68
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
When newscaster Abby Waite is diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, she decides to do the … read more
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31. Dark Blood Comes From the Feet
By: Emma J. Gibbon
3.89
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Dark Blood Comes From the Feet is a strange and eclectic collection of seventeen stories from horro… read more
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