8 Top horror books like Waystations of the Deep Night by Marcel Brion

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Waystations of the Deep Night

By: Marcel Brion

4.27

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations of the Deep Ni…

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Cover of Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1) by Rex Stout, Loren D. Estleman

1. Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

By: Rex Stout , Loren D. Estleman

3.97

Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man.… read more

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  • fiction
"You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment"

-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

"[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant."

-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

"...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery."

-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

"To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices."

-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

Cover of Rage by Stephen        King, Richard Bachman

2. Rage

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the res… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Be'…"

-Stephen King, Rage

"You’re on, Ted,"

-Stephen King, Rage

"That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield."

-Stephen King, Rage

"If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to."

-Stephen King, Rage

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3. Walpurgisnacht

By: Gustav Meyrink , Mike Mitchell

3.73

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Walpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the anc… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
"Freude, die einen Anlaß braucht, ist nicht Freude, sondern Vergnügen."

-Gustav Meyrink, Walpurgisnacht

Cover of The Cathedral of Mist by Edward Gauvin, Paul Willems, Bette Burgoyne

4. The Cathedral of Mist

By: Edward Gauvin , Paul Willems , Bette Burgoyne

4.12

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last o… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • france
  • fiction
"Miracles belong only to the moment, and live on only in memory."

-Edward Gauvin, The Cathedral of Mist

"For the palace was but emptiness, a hole in a labyrinth of lines, a skyward precipice."

-Edward Gauvin, The Cathedral of Mist

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5. Inherent Vice

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Castle by Franz Kafka, Mark Harman, Regaip Minareci, None

6. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1) by Seth Dickinson

7. The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1)

By: Seth Dickinson

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

The Traitor Baru Cormorantis an epic geopolitical fantasy about one woman's mission to tear down an… read more

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  • fiction

8. The Hill of Dreams

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through so… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso, Hardie St. Martin, Leonard Mades

9. The Obscene Bird of Night

By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror

10. The Einstein Intersection

By: Neil Gaiman , Samuel R. Delany

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the m… read more

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11. Zombie

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

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12. The Weird and the Eerie

By: Mark Fisher

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more

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13. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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14. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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15. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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16. The Passion According to G.H.

By: Clarice Lispector , None

4.13

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"I don't want beauty, I want identity."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

17. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)

By: Mervyn Peake

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradi… read more

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18. Universal Harvester

By: John Darnielle

4.04

Format: None pages,

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at… read more

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19. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

Cover of The Street of Crocodiles by Jonathan Safran Foer, Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski, Celina Wieniewska

20. The Street of Crocodiles

By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

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21. Thousand Cranes

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.71

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousa… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Гріх ніколи не змиєш, а горе минає."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"Коли вона померла, я з жалем подумала: навіть якщо її не розуміли, то все одно смерть не можна виправдати. Смерть виключає будь-яку надію на порозуміння."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"– Понимаете, Кикудзисан, человек не может быть благоразумным и мудрым, если в нем слишком сильно мужское или женское начало. – Да? Значит, мудрость среднего пола? – Иронизируете? Ну, ну… Однако, когд…"

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

Cover of Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0) by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling

22. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

23. Malpertuis

By: Iain White , Jean Ray , John Flanders

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

A manuscript stolen from a monastery, the ancient stone house of a sea-trading dynasty, which may b… read more

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24. Old Masters: A Comedy

By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more

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25. Dhalgren

By: Samuel R. Delany

3.77

Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition

A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects ar… read more

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  • fiction
"What?"

-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

"He wanted to talk and had nothing to say."

-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

"An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit."

-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

"I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I’m here."

-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

Cover of Waystations of the Deep Night by Marcel Brion

26. Waystations of the Deep Night

By: Marcel Brion

4.27

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations of the Deep Ni… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • france
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Circles of Dread by Jean Ray

27. Circles of Dread

By: Jean Ray

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"I chalked circles onto the wall facing me. They are empty and black, but will not remain so. They … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Impersonal Adventure by Marcel Béalu

28. The Impersonal Adventure

By: Marcel Béalu

3.56

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and profession on a wh… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas

29. American Abductions

By: Mauro Javier Cárdenas

3.86

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

After her father is abducted by immigration officials before her eyes and deported to Colombia, Ada… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Black–White–Red by Mynona

30. Black–White–Red

By: Mynona

3.33

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Black–White–Red, first published in German in 1916, collects six bizarre tales by the “laughing phi… read more

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31. House of the Nine Devils

By: Johannes Urzidil

4.33

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The most erudite of all Prague German writers, his mastery consists not least of all in his ability… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

Rex Stout , Loren D. Estleman

3.97

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3.73

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Walpurgisnacht

Gustav Meyrink , Mike Mitchell

3.73

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Oblivion: Stories

David Foster Wallace

4.07

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4.20

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4.20

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