5 Best horror books like Hashish by Oscar A.H. Schmitz

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Hashish

By: Oscar A.H. Schmitz

3.73

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

First published in German in 1902, Hashish is a collection of decadent, interwoven tales of Satanis…

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1. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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  • fiction
"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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2. Things We Lost in the Fire

By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's Things We Lost in the Fire book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"El problema es que no nos creen."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

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3. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Naomi

By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Anthony H. Chambers

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoni… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

Similar categories in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

6. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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7. District

By: Tony Duvert

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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8. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's Água Viva book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • fiction
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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9. 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

Similar categories in Jonathan Safran Foer's The Street of Crocodiles book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • 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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10. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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11. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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12. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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13. Reckless (Reckless, #1)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.22

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since … read more

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  • fiction
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14. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • fiction
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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15. Fulgentius

By: César Aira

3.88

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Una vuelta de tuerca a la novela de romanos protagonizada por un voluble general de la legión que c… read more

Similar categories in César Aira's Fulgentius book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • fiction
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16. Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

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17. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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  • short stories
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

Cover of DEATH NOTE短編集 (Death Note Short Stories) by Tsugumi Ohba

18. DEATH NOTE短編集 (Death Note Short Stories)

By: Tsugumi Ohba

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

夜神月とLの結末のその後を描いた「Cキラ編」 死神リュークと出遭った田中実が驚くべき方法でデスノートを使った「aキラ編」 最初のデスノートの物語「鏡太郎編」 Lの日常と過去「L-One Day」「L… read more

Similar categories in Tsugumi Ohba's DEATH NOTE短編集 (Death Note Short Stories) book and Oscar A.H. Schmitz's Hashish

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Light, now that I think about it, you're the least artistic. The only creative thing you did was to hide your porn magazines. Is that the best you can do?" -Soichiro Yagami"

-Tsugumi Ohba, DEATH NOTE短編集 (Death Note Short Stories)

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19. Hashish

By: Oscar A.H. Schmitz

3.73

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

First published in German in 1902, Hashish is a collection of decadent, interwoven tales of Satanis… read more

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  • german literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Munchaussen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel

By: Paul Scheerbart

3.43

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

It is 1905 and a raging stupidity is holding sway over Europe. As an eighteen-year-old Clarissa and… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
Cover of Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems by Joyce Mansour

21. Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems

By: Joyce Mansour

4.52

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to emerge from 1950s Paris. “You kno… read more

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

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Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

3.84

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Naomi

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Anthony H. Chambers

3.33

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Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard

Stéphane Mallarmé

4.15

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Árbol de Diana

Alejandra Pizarnik

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Goblin Market

Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

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Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

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