19 must-read fiction books like Grotesquerie by Richard Gavin

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Grotesquerie

By: Richard Gavin

3.93

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Richard Gavin’s “grotesquerie,” where fear and faith converge in eerie and nightmarish t…

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1. The Secret of Ventriloquism

By: Jon Padgett

3.90

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazi… read more

Similar categories in Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"I was seven years old the first time my brother tried to kill me."

-Jon Padgett, The Secret of Ventriloquism

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2. Creeping Waves

By: Nathan Ballingrud , Matthew M. Bartlett

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Where is the real Leeds? How does one get there? Is it floating on the air-words and music you can … read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Creeping Waves book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Divine Farce

By: Michael S.A. Graziano

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

"A Dante/Beckett reduction of human struggle to its lowest common denominator."--Michael Mirolla, a… read more

Similar categories in Michael S.A. Graziano's The Divine Farce book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga (Blackwater, #1-6) by John  Langan, Michael McDowell

4. Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga (Blackwater, #1-6)

By: John Langan , Michael McDowell

4.20

Format: 240 pages,

Michael McDowell was proclaimed "the finest writer of paperback originals in America" by Stephen Ki… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga (Blackwater, #1-6) book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • fiction
  • horror
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5. 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

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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6. Dark Gods

By: T.E.D. Klein

4.09

Format: 261 pages, Mass Market Paperback

T.E.D. Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies - which Stephen King called "the most ex… read more

Similar categories in T.E.D. Klein's Dark Gods book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

7. In a Lonely Place

By: Karl Edward Wagner

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more

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8. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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9. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

Similar categories in Steven L. Peck's A Short Stay in Hell book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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10. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Greatest Hits

By: Harlan Ellison

4.18

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

By: Attila Veres

4.17

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more

Similar categories in Attila Veres's The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. 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

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Siebert's Bonding book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Antisocieties

By: Michael Cisco

4.01

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

ANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation - what it does to people, and what iso… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cisco's Antisocieties book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Different Darkness and Other Abominations by Luigi Musolino

16. A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

By: Luigi Musolino

4.23

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant new collection showcases the best short stories and novellas of one of Italy's leadi… read more

Similar categories in Luigi Musolino's A Different Darkness and Other Abominations book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Ghost Sequences book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs

18. 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

Similar categories in John Hornor Jacobs's A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Inconsolables

By: Michael Wehunt

4.24

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voic… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wehunt's The Inconsolables book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
"Well, my wife and child have moved out," Fulton told him, "and I've gotten back into vampires to fill the hole they left behind."

-Michael Wehunt, The Inconsolables

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20. Grotesquerie

By: Richard Gavin

3.93

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Richard Gavin’s “grotesquerie,” where fear and faith converge in eerie and nightmarish t… read more

Similar categories in Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie book and Richard Gavin's Grotesquerie

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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21. Nothing is Everything

By: Simon Strantzas

3.98

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Nothing is Everything’ is the masterful new collection from acclaimed Canadian author Simon Strant… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

5 must-read adult books like Grotesquerie by Richard Gavin

Transform Your Habits

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Ghost Sequences

A.C. Wise

3.98

Transform Your Habits

A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

John Hornor Jacobs

3.82

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16 best-selling fiction books like North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

Transform Your Habits

The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett

3.90

Transform Your Habits

A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

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