Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923
By: Lisa Morton
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as the first modern writer of horror, the su…
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1. The Empty House
By: Rosamunde Pilcher
3.85
Format: 249 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- horror
2. The Serpent of Venice
By: Christopher Moore
3.88
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Po… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
"Holy ripened fuckcheese!"-Christopher Moore, The Serpent of Venice
"thou treacherous coal-souled wank-weasel!"-Christopher Moore, The Serpent of Venice
"Entscheidend ist: Ich bin klein und untröstlich."-Christopher Moore, The Serpent of Venice
"thou wretched pillar of syphilitic pheasant-fuck!"-Christopher Moore, The Serpent of Venice
3. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
4. Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror
By: John Langan , Kelley Armstrong , Sherrilyn Kenyon , Seanan McGuire , Lynda Barry , Charlaine Harris , John Ajvide Lindqvist , Gary A. Braunbeck , David Wellington , Lucy A. Snyder , Dana Cameron , Christopher Golden , Tim Lebbon , Brian Keene , Laird Barron , Robert Shearman , Michael Koryta , Dan Chaon , Joe McKinney , Rio Youers , Leigh Perry , Scott Smith
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A blockbuster anthology of original, blood-curdling vampire fiction from New York Timesbestselling … read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
5. In the Closed Room
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This classic large print title is printed in 16 point Tiresias font as recommended by the Royal Nat… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
6. Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories
By: Ray Bradbury , Charles Beaumont , William Shatner
4.39
Format: None pages,
The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zonewriter, w… read more
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7. The Silver Metal Lover (Silver Metal Lover, #1)
By: Tanith Lee
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood.... Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking … read more
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8. Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories
By: Audrey Niffenegger
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Collected and introduced by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wifeand Her Fearful Symme… read more
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9. Father of Lies
By: Brian Evenson
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
At the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Throug… read more
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10. The Intuitionist
By: Colson Whitehead
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first n… read more
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11. Comfort Me with Apples
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.59
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples
12. Into the Uncanny
By: Danny Robins
4.27
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
'A contemporary Van Helsing...' Sunday Times'King of true-life scary tales' Observer'A wonderfully … read more
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- mystery
- horror
- ghosts
"the older I'd got, the more ghost had become an abstract concept, something impossibly fictional on a par with Hobbits, Jedi or getting a GP appointment"-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny
"Science itself can be quite negative because you essentially can never really prove a theory is correct, you can only prove it's wrong, so scientists are by definition sceptical because they spend a …"-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny
13. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- horror
"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
14. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
15. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
16. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.14
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more
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17. Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery
By: Christopher Golden
3.67
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Ke… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
18. Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
By: Brian Evenson
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome le… read more
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- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
" The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it. "-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
"We did speak, occasionally, but gestured more often than moved our lips, and in general lived in that brusque and silent accord enjoyed, if enjoyed is the right word, by certain long-married couples."-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
"And there's another one, where you look yourself in the mirror and keep looking until you can see through your skin, and then you draw your own heart and send the drawing in a letter to someone else.…"-Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
19. The Strange
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
20. The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
By: Amelia B. Edwards
3.77
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Amelia B. Edwards is acknowledged as one of the best Victorian ghost story writers. She was one of … read more
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- gothic
- classics
- ghosts
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them."-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
"All tradition,’ said the Professor, ‘is a type of spiritual truth. The superstitions of the East, and the mythologies of the North—the beautiful Fables of old Greece, and the bold investigations of m…"-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
"The world,’ he said, ‘grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable all that resists expe…"-Amelia B. Edwards, The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
21. Flea Market Magic (Southern Relics #1)
By: Bella Falls
3.86
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
A little sweet tea and a whole lot of spells won’t always put out the fire… Welcome to Jewell, NC,… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
22. Reluctant Immortals
By: Gwendolyn Kiste
3.54
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes … read more
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- gothic
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"I don’t envy her for it. The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time."-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals
"The thing about making it to old age is that not everyone else will. That means you get to sit back and watch the world slip away from you, one tragedy at a time. First it was her friends, the Texan …"-Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals
23. Siege and Sacrifice (Numina, #3)
By: Charlie N. Holmberg
4.23
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
Sandis has finally freed herself from her master and his plans to use her as a vessel for the ancie… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
24. The Ghost Sequences
By: A.C. Wise
3.98
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
From A.C. Wise, the acclaimed author of Wendy, Darling, comes a brand new collection of horror stor… read more
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- ghosts
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
25. A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
By: John Hornor Jacobs
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—b… read more
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- gothic
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
26. At Midnight
By: Dahlia Adler
3.42
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weav… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- anthologies
27. Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923
By: Lisa Morton
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as the first modern writer of horror, the su… read more
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- gothic
- classics
- ghosts
- weird fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- fantasy
28. Nut Bush Farm
By: Charlotte Riddell
3.40
Format: None pages, None
First published in Weird Stories, 1882 read more
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- mystery
- classics
- short stories
- horror
29. Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
By: Michelle Moran
4.30
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dram… read more
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- fiction
30. The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories: Terrifying Tales Set on the Scariest Night of the Year!
By: Stephen Jones
3.76
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
Twenty-six terrifying tales set on the scariest night of the year by Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, … read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
- horror
31. 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
