19 best-selling horror books like Mr. Cannyharme: A Novel of Lovecraftian Terror by Michael Shea

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Mr. Cannyharme: A Novel of Lovecraftian Terror

By: Michael Shea

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Early in his career, Michael Shea wrote the Lovecraftian novel The Color out of Time (1984). He sub…

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1. The Land Leviathan: A New Scientific Romance (Oswald Bastable, #2)

By: Michael Moorcock , Chris Foss

3.57

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Authentic original item. Packed with pride, stocked with care and shipped fast and efficient read more

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  • fiction
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2. Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6)

By: Fritz Leiber

3.95

Format: 243 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: · The Sadness of the Executioner · ss Flashing Swords! #1, ed. Lin Carter, Dell, 1973 … read more

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"For the gods have very sharp ears for boasts, or for declarations of happiness and self-satisfaction, or for assertions of a firm intention to do this or that, or for statements that this or that mus…"

-Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6)

"Yes, he knew that the god Loki had come out of the flames and possessed him for a while (as Fafhrd had perhaps once been possessed by the god Issek back in Lankhmar) and spoken through his lips the s…"

-Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6)

"That was another trouble with women, they were never there when you wanted or really needed them. They helped each other, all right, but they expected men to do all sorts of impossible feats of derri…"

-Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #6)

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3. Harvest Home

By: Thomas Tryon

3.82

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction."

-Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home

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4. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

By: Jack Vance

3.89

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more

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"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

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5. The Great White Space

By: Basil Copper

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton S… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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6. The Empty Man

By: Cullen Bunn

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Empty Man made me do it It's been one year since the first reported case of the Empty Man disea… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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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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  • fiction
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"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

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8. The Croning

By: Laird Barron

3.73

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyon… read more

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  • fiction
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"The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did."

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straighteni…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

"They would, according to his experience of their traditions, suspect he was a demon, or demon-inhabited. Considering the volume of alcohol saturating his liver, that ancient gateway of spirits, of co…"

-Laird Barron, The Croning

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9. 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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  • fiction
  • horror

10. The Nest

By: Gregory A. Douglas , None

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • horror

11. Flesh

By: Richard Laymon

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Best Horror Novel of 1988 - Science Fiction Chronicle. 'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a tr… read more

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12. The Madness of Cthulhu Anthology (Volume One)

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Robert Silverberg , Arthur C. Clarke , Harry Turtledove , S.T. Joshi , Heather Graham , John Shirley , William Browning Spencer , Melanie Tem , Jonathan Thomas , Joseph S. Pulver Sr. , Donald Tyson , Michael Shea , None , None , None , None

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sixteen stories inspired by the 20th century's great master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft, and his ackn… read more

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13. The Knight and Knave of Swords (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #7)

By: Fritz Leiber

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Ramsey Campbell, the highly regarded British horror author, called him: "the greatest living writer… read more

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14. Southern Gods

By: John Hornor Jacobs

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ra… read more

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15. In the Dark: A Horror Anthology

By: Duane Swierczynski , James Tynion IV , Mike Henderson , Drew Moss , Christopher Sebela , Marguerite Bennett , F. Paul Wilson , Cullen Bunn , Tim Seeley , Marc Laming , Matthew Dow Smith , Brian Keene , Tom Taylor , Brian Level , Paul Tobin , Justin Jordan , Tradd Moore , Michael Moreci , Nate Southard , None , Douglas Holgate , Thomas Boatwright , Jody LeHeup , Garry Brown , None , Tadd Galusha , Sean E. Williams , Eryk Donovan , Ed Brisson , Andy Belanger , Alison Sampson , Patric Reynolds , Chris Mooneyham , Valerie D’Orazio , Mike Oliveri , Steve Seeley , Mack Chater , Christian Wildgoose , Jonathan Brandon Sawyer , None , None , None

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

In The Dark is a monstrous collection of all-new, original terror tales from the darkest and most b… read more

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16. The Stone Book

By: Michael Foreman , Alan Garner

4.23

Format: 690 pages, Hardcover

Mary wanted to learn to read and asked her stonemason father for a book. In reply, he sent her into… read more

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17. Last Days

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.75

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more

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  • horror
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."

-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days

18. The Steel Tsar (Oswald Bastable, #3)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.89

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Steel Tsar is the third novel in the Oswald Bastable trilogy, A Nomad of the Time Streams, by M… read more

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19. All the Fiends of Hell

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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20. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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21. The Church Beneath the Roots

By: Felix Blackwell

4.25

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Long before the events of Stolen Tongues… On the Cold Valley Indian Reservation, in the shadow of … read more

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  • horror
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22. Head Like a Hole

By: Andrew Van Wey

3.85

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

When you bury your past make sure that it’s dead. It’s the mid-nineties. Grunge and flannel are … read more

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  • horror
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23. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

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  • fiction
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"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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24. Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood

By: Algernon Blackwood

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From one of the greatest and most prolific authors of 20th century weird fiction come four of the v… read more

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  • horror
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25. No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories

By: Premee Mohamed

4.00

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A collection of short fiction by award-winning author Premee Mohamed. read more

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26. The Monsters in the Park

By: David Hambling

4.29

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

Crystal Palace, South London 1936: A day in the park turns into an apocalyptic struggle against pre… read more

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Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

27. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

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28. Tales of the Al-Azif: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology (Books of Cthulhu Book 1)

By: Matthew Davenport

4.08

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

The Necronomicon was not the first book by H.P. Lovecraft to terrify readers with tales of dark and… read more

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29. Mr. Cannyharme: A Novel of Lovecraftian Terror

By: Michael Shea

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Early in his career, Michael Shea wrote the Lovecraftian novel The Color out of Time (1984). He sub… read more

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30. Memoria

By: Curt Pires

4.01

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

When an aged terminally ill detective and a young burnout are partnered up and saddled with an unso… read more

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31. Periphery: A Tale of Cosmic Horror

By: Michael Winter

3.66

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

From the Corner of Your Eye to the Focus of Your Fear Tampa Fire Rescue paramedic Andrew Tate th… read more

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9 Best lovecraftian books like Mr. Cannyharme: A Novel of Lovecraftian Terror by Michael Shea

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The Great White Space

Basil Copper

4.06

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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.00

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The Croning

Laird Barron

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

John Langan

4.06

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Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

John Langan

3.89

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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

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Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

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Gemma Files

3.56

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