16 Best horror books like Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson

Far Below

By: Robert Barbour Johnson

3.84

Format: None pages, None

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Cover of Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin

1. Fevre Dream

By: George R.R. Martin

3.89

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy arist… read more

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  • horror
"Sometimes I think … the humanity of him is all hollow, a mask … he is only an old animal, so ancient it has lost even the taste for food, but it hunts on nonetheless, because that is all it remembers…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noti…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"You know I never held much with slavery, even if I never done much against it neither. I would of, but those damned abolitionists were such Bible-thumpers. Only I been thinkin', and it seems to me ma…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"ABNER Marsh had a mind that was not unlike his body. It was big all around, ample in size and capacity, and he crammed all sorts of things into it. It was strong as well; when Abner Marsh took someth…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

Cover of The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft

2. The Nameless City

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.62

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first publishe… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City

"But as always in my strange and roving existence, wonder soon drove out fear; for the luminous abyss and what it might contain presented a problem worthy of the greatest explorer."

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City

"When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corps…"

-H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City

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3. Axolotl

By: Julio Cortázar

4.15

Format: 7 pages, None

"They looked and knew. That laid the claim. They were not animals." read more

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  • short stories
"Above all else, their eyes obsessed me. In the standing tanks on either side of them, different fishes showed me the simple stupidity of their handsome eyes so similar to our own. The eyes of the axo…"

-Julio Cortázar, Axolotl

Cover of Hell Screen by Jay Rubin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

4. Hell Screen

By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

4.20

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."

-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen

"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."

-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen

"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"

-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen

"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"

-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen

Cover of Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol

5. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more

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  • short stories
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6. The Summer People

By: Shirley Jackson

3.86

Format: 445 pages,

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  • short stories
  • horror
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7. The Black Stone

By: Robert E. Howard

4.17

Format: None pages,

A marvelous rendition of the short story the Black Stone by Conan author Robert E. Howard. You can … read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

8. The Golden Man

By: Philip K. Dick

4.29

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Comprising: - The Golden Man(1954) - Return Match(1967) - The King of the Elves(1953) - The Mold of… read more

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  • short stories

9. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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10. The Alchemist

By: H.P. Lovecraft

2.00

Format: None pages,

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11. The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

"The birds kept coming at him from the air, silent save for the beating wings. The terrible, flutte… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

12. In the Penal Colony

By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more

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13. The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original tha… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
"Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being."

-Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

Cover of The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith

14. The Seed from the Sepulchre

By: Clark Ashton Smith

4.03

Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition

None read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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15. The Dismembered

By: Jonathan Janz

3.95

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disa… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Town of Cats by Hagiwara Sakutaro

16. The Town of Cats

By: Hagiwara Sakutaro

3.44

Format: 18 pages, None

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17. Three Skeleton Key

By: George G. Toudouze

3.50

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The plot involves three men tending a lighthouse on an island off the coast of French Guiana. An ab… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

18. Far Below

By: Robert Barbour Johnson

3.84

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller

19. The Thing in the Cellar

By: David H. Keller

3.72

Format: 32 pages, paperback

• The Thing in the Cellar • (1932) • shortstory by David H. Keller, M.D. • The Psychology of Fear… read more

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  • short stories
  • horror
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20. The Tarn

By: Hugh Walpole

3.83

Format: None pages, None

A famous short story read more

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21. Smoke Ghost

By: Fritz Leiber

3.69

Format: 9 pages, None

When a man keeps on seeing a smoke ghost, he questions his own sanity. read more

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  • short stories
  • horror

22. A Child in the bush of the Ghosts

By: Olympe Bhêly-Quenum

3.15

Format: None pages, None

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23. The Complete Gentleman

By: Amos Tutuola

2.95

Format: None pages, None

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24. The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be

By: Gahan Wilson

4.11

Format: 20 pages, ebook

https://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/wilson/index.html Fiction, Shor… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Salamander by Mercè Rodoreda

25. The Salamander

By: Mercè Rodoreda

2.89

Format: None pages, None

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26. the ghoulbird

By: Claude Seignolle

3.11

Format: None pages, None

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27. A Woman Seldom Found

By: William Sansom

3.53

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • horror
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28. The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles

By: Margaret St. Clair

3.46

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories

29. The Meinz Psalter

By: Jean Ray

3.42

Format: None pages, None

Tâcheron de génie enchaînant à train d’enfer les aventures de Harry Dickson, Jean Ray, tailleur de … read more

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30. White Rabbits

By: Leonora Carrington

3.63

Format: None pages, None

Az angol–mexikói festőművésznő zabolátlan fantáziával megírt, morbid humorú novelláiban minden teke… read more

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  • short stories

31. Mimic

By: Donald A. Wollheim

3.68

Format: None pages, None

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  • short stories
  • horror

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3.62

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4.15

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4.20

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4.09

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