16 Best horror books like The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman

Cover of The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman

The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

By: Robert Aickman

3.89

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

* Robert Aickman "Introduction" * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Playing With Fire" * Edith Nesbit "Man-…

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Cover of The Horror in the Museum by H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen              Jones

1. The Horror in the Museum

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Stephen Jones

4.02

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-author… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

2. Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.71

Format: 35 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two tribes of frightful warrior women, the Kaji and the Zuli, war with one another for possession o… read more

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  • fiction
"How much he could believe of it, he did not know; for he did not know the man, and he had learned to suspect that every civilized man was a liar and a cheat until he had proved himself otherwise."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21)

Cover of 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural by Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Algernon Blackwood, Gerald Kersh, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, E.F. Benson, Alfred Noyes, Daphne du Maurier, William Hope Hodgson, Robert Aickman, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, M.R. James, None, W.F. Harvey, Marjorie Bowen, Hugh Clifford, L.P. Hartley, W.W. Jacobs, Robert Holdstock, Sabine Baring-Gould, E. Nesbit, John Halkin, Celia Fremlin, Nigel Kneale, D.K. Broster, Dorothy K. Haynes, Amelia B. Edwards, Charles Birkin, Adrian Cole, John A. Burke, Mary Danby, Joyce Marsh, None, F. Marion Crawford, Hammond Innes, Richard Hughes, Davis Grubb, Thomas Burke, None, A.J. Alan, None, Tom Hood, None, None

3. 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural

By: Guy de Maupassant , O. Henry , Arthur Conan Doyle , Rudyard Kipling , Algernon Blackwood , Gerald Kersh , J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Washington Irving , Ambrose Bierce , Charles Dickens , H.P. Lovecraft , Edgar Allan Poe , E.F. Benson , Alfred Noyes , Daphne du Maurier , William Hope Hodgson , Robert Aickman , R. Chetwynd-Hayes , M.R. James , None , W.F. Harvey , Marjorie Bowen , Hugh Clifford , L.P. Hartley , W.W. Jacobs , Robert Holdstock , Sabine Baring-Gould , E. Nesbit , John Halkin , Celia Fremlin , Nigel Kneale , D.K. Broster , Dorothy K. Haynes , Amelia B. Edwards , Charles Birkin , Adrian Cole , John A. Burke , Mary Danby , Joyce Marsh , None , F. Marion Crawford , Hammond Innes , Richard Hughes , Davis Grubb , Thomas Burke , None , A.J. Alan , None , Tom Hood , None , None

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This powerful and comprehensive collection of 65 brilliant stories contains the best of all the wel… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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4. The Pet

By: Charles L. Grant

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Teenagers are being slaughtered by the Howler, a serial killer who stops in small towns just long e… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Murgunstrumm & Others

By: Hugh B. Cave

4.33

Format: None pages,

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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6. The Elementals

By: Michael McDowell

4.01

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Savage mothers eat their children!"

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

"There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown."

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

Cover of Transactions of the Flesh: A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans by Berit Ellingsen, Rhys Hughes, Adam Golaski, Eugene Thacker, D.P. Watt, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Mark Valentine, Douglas Thompson, Colin Insole, John  Howard, Jeremy Reed, Oliver Smith, None, M.O.N., None, Charles Schneider, Adam S. Cantwell, Peter Holman, Louis Marvick, None, None

7. Transactions of the Flesh: A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans

By: Berit Ellingsen , Rhys Hughes , Adam Golaski , Eugene Thacker , D.P. Watt , Joris-Karl Huysmans , Mark Valentine , Douglas Thompson , Colin Insole , John Howard , Jeremy Reed , Oliver Smith , None , M.O.N. , None , Charles Schneider , Adam S. Cantwell , Peter Holman , Louis Marvick , None , None

2.90

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Limited to 150 copies; no dustjacket read more

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8. The Brothers Grimm: Illuminated Fairy Tales, Vol. 1 [Kindle in Motion]

By: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , None , None , M.S. Corley , Wesley Allsbrook , Kali Ciesemier , None , None , None

3.87

Format: 160 pages,

From "Rapunzel" to "Hansel and Gretel," Grimm's Fairy Taleshave enchanted readers for generations. … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

9. The White People

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft

10. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Wicked Delights by John Llewellyn Probert

11. Wicked Delights

By: John Llewellyn Probert

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

WickedThe book that sucks the blood from children DelightsThe film that turns people into self-dest… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Caverns of the Snow Witch (Fighting Fantasy, #9) by Ian Livingstone, Steve   Jackson

12. Caverns of the Snow Witch (Fighting Fantasy, #9)

By: Ian Livingstone , Steve Jackson

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deep within the Crystal Caves of the Icefinger Mountains, the dreaded Snow Witch is plotting to bri… read more

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  • fiction

13. Dark Mind, Dark Heart

By: August Derleth

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Foreword - August Derleth Robert Bloch - Under The Horns Joseph Payne Brennan - Come Back, Uncle Be… read more

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14. The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales

By: Mark Samuels

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Cryptic and potent languages, bizarre cults, mysteries that span the gulf between life and death, o… read more

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15. Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

4.36

Format: 39 pages,

A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more

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16. The Weapon Shops of Isher

By: A.E. van Vogt

3.95

Format: 253 pages,

With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story S… read more

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17. Hyperborea

By: Clark Ashton Smith

4.15

Format: None pages,

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18. The Body

By: Carol Ellis

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

No one knows what reallyhappened the night Lisa Randolph fell off the cliff. And it seems that no o… read more

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19. The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories

By: Michael Cox

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The ghosts of fiction were not killed off by the advent of the electric light, the invention of th… read more

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20. Chamber of Horrors: Great Tales of Terror and The Supernatural

By: Stephen King , Guy de Maupassant , H.G. Wells , Rudyard Kipling , H.P. Lovecraft , Bram Stoker , Roald Dahl

3.88

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Contents: Wood / R. Aickman -- The bird / T. Burke -- A thing about machines / R. Serling -- A woma… read more

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Cover of Night's Yawning Peal by August Derleth

21. Night's Yawning Peal

By: August Derleth

4.00

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of supernatural tales never before published in book form is a literary event of t… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of The Clock Strikes Twelve by H.R. Wakefield

22. The Clock Strikes Twelve

By: H.R. Wakefield

4.26

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

A new collection of macabre tales by H. Russell Wakefield - collects Wakefield's "introduction" and… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Lonesome Places by August Derleth

23. Lonesome Places

By: August Derleth

3.50

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman

24. The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

By: Robert Aickman

3.89

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

* Robert Aickman "Introduction" * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Playing With Fire" * Edith Nesbit "Man-… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
Cover of Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories by Michel Parry

25. Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories

By: Michel Parry

3.00

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

FIRST EDITION (British paperback), Corgi #10390, (c) 1977. Cover “The 2nd Corgi Book Of Great Victo… read more

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  • horror
"The matter ended in my giving up my room. I had a strange reluctance to making the offer. which surprised myself. Was it a boding of evil to come? I cannot say. We are strangely and wonderfully made.…"

-Michel Parry, Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories

"He was a student - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to students. He was a German - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to Germans. He was young, handsome, studious, enthu…"

-Michel Parry, Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories

"The weather appeared to have somewhat cleared up; the rain no longer fell, a fresh wind swept the streets, and the moon, now and then surrounded by dark clouds, now and then shining in full brillianc…"

-Michel Parry, Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories

"The bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary and awful to hear through the night silence. Issac felt strangely wakeful. He resolved, as he lay do…"

-Michel Parry, Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories

Cover of No. 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki, the Untold Stories by A.F. Kidd

26. No. 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki, the Untold Stories

By: A.F. Kidd

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Like the detective stories of Sherlock Holmes, the Carnacki tales of William Hope Hodgson contain s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Lady Stanhope's Manuscript and Other Stories by Dale   Nelson

27. Lady Stanhope's Manuscript and Other Stories

By: Dale Nelson

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Lady Stanhope's Manuscript and Other Stories collects eleven stories written and published over the… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Fortunate Isles by Lisa L. Hannett

28. The Fortunate Isles

By: Lisa L. Hannett

4.00

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The Fortunate Isles collects fourteen tales of salt-crusted weirdness from the rugged, cold-clime h… read more

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Cover of The Faces at Your Shoulder by Steve Duffy

29. The Faces at Your Shoulder

By: Steve Duffy

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Where are the monsters? Sometimes they’re right behind you. In this new collection of six novel… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur by August Derleth

30. Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur

By: August Derleth

3.73

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

This anthology of horror stories was first published in 1944. Includes stories, by authors includin… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
"He had, he said, floated off from a very ordinary series of dream-pictures into a scene whose strangeness was related to nothing he had ever read. It was of this world, and yet not of it—a shadowy ge…"

-August Derleth, Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur

Cover of The Riddle and Other Stories by Walter de la Mare

31. The Riddle and Other Stories

By: Walter de la Mare

3.61

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Collection of fifteen excellent short stories of de la Mare's best known supernatural tales: The… read more

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  • fiction

17 best-selling fiction books like The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories by Robert Aickman

Transform Your Habits

The Horror in the Museum

H.P. Lovecraft , Stephen Jones

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.71

Transform Your Habits

65 Great Tales of the Supernatural

Guy de Maupassant , O. Henry , Arthur Conan Doyle , Rudyard Kipling , Algernon Blackwood , Gerald Kersh , J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Washington Irving , Ambrose Bierce , Charles Dickens , H.P. Lovecraft , Edgar Allan Poe , E.F. Benson , Alfred Noyes , Daphne du Maurier , William Hope Hodgson , Robert Aickman , R. Chetwynd-Hayes , M.R. James , None , W.F. Harvey , Marjorie Bowen , Hugh Clifford , L.P. Hartley , W.W. Jacobs , Robert Holdstock , Sabine Baring-Gould , E. Nesbit , John Halkin , Celia Fremlin , Nigel Kneale , D.K. Broster , Dorothy K. Haynes , Amelia B. Edwards , Charles Birkin , Adrian Cole , John A. Burke , Mary Danby , Joyce Marsh , None , F. Marion Crawford , Hammond Innes , Richard Hughes , Davis Grubb , Thomas Burke , None , A.J. Alan , None , Tom Hood , None , None

3.56

Transform Your Habits

The Pet

Charles L. Grant

3.33

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11 best-selling fiction books like The White People by Arthur Machen

Transform Your Habits

The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Collected Ghost Stories

M.R. James

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti

4.00

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The Suicide Club

Robert Louis Stevenson

2.70

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