6 must-read classics books like The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird) by Michael Wheatley

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The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird)

By: Michael Wheatley

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many writers in the early twentieth century particularly were fascinated by Pan as a figure of unbr…

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1. Collected Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"

-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories

Cover of The Great God Pan (Creation Classics) by Arthur Machen

2. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

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3. The Twenty Days of Turin

By: Giorgio De Maria , Ramon Glazov

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space whe… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

5. The White People and Other Weird Stories

By: Guillermo del Toro , S.T. Joshi , Arthur Machen

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduc… read more

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6. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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7. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)

By: Ian Fleming

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more

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8. The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

By: Arthur Machen

3.89

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentac… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"He could even talk about painting, and that's more than can be said of most painters."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

"Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are al…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

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9. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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10. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

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  • gothic
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4) by Seishi Yokomizo

11. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

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12. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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13. The Dark Between the Trees

By: Fiona Barnett

3.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern Englan… read more

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  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0) by C. Robert Cargill

14. Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0)

By: C. Robert Cargill

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this apocalyptic adventure C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between h… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs

16. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • short stories
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17. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

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  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. The Mansions of Murder (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, #18)

By: Paul Doherty

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A murdered priest, a missing body, stolen treasure: Brother Athelstan tackles his most challenging … read more

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19. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

By: Edward Parnell

3.95

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family t… read more

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  • gothic
  • horror
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20. The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird)

By: Michael Wheatley

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Many writers in the early twentieth century particularly were fascinated by Pan as a figure of unbr… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wheatley's The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird) book and Michael Wheatley's The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (Tales of the Weird)

  • gothic
  • classics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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21. Verge

By: Nadia Attia

3.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The day Rowena Murray was born, 250 starlings fell like stones from the sky. Ever since, she has be… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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