Compulsory Games
By: Robert Aickman
3.79
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though hi…
Want to Read $ 13.99"One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking."-Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games
"One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking."-Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games
"One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking."-Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. Galactic Pot-Healer
By: Philip K. Dick
3.61
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
The Glimmung wants Joe Fernwright. Fernwright is a pot-healer - a repairer of ceramics - in a drabl… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it."-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer
"For a time Joe considered. In his mind he considered his room, the cubicle in which he worked, the loss of his coins, the police—he thought about it all and tried to make it add up. What ties me here…"-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer
"A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, ea…"-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer
"Già suo padre, prima di lui, era stato un guaritore di vasi. E così anche lui guariva vasi, e a dire il vero qualsiasi manufatto di ceramica risalente ai Vecchi Tempi, prima della guerra, quando anco…"-Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer
3. Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
By: Patricia Highsmith
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
"Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso … read more
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- fiction
4. The Loney
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere be… read more
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- fiction
- horror
5. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- horror
6. Nostalgia
By: Mircea Cărtărescu , Julian Semilian
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation … read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
7. The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
By: John Langan
4.06
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemp… read more
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- weird fiction
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
8. Devil's Day
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more
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- fiction
- horror
9. Rogue Male
By: Geoffrey Household
4.09
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate … read more
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10. Tarka the Otter
By: Henry Williamson , None
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Tarka the otter pursues an active life, sometimes playful and sometimes dangerous, in the Devonshir… read more
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11. 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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12. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
13. The Castle of Crossed Destinies
By: Italo Calvino
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are … read more
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14. A Balcony in the Forest
By: Richard Howard , Julien Gracq
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In the Ardennes Forest on the Belgian border the French guns point north-east, awaiting the German … read more
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15. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
By: Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more
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16. A Time of Gifts
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from … read more
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17. The Black Spider
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jeremias Gotthelf
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening … read more
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18. American Tabloid (Underworld USA, #1)
By: James Ellroy
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassina… read more
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19. Travels With My Aunt
By: Graham Greene
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more
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20. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
By: George V. Higgins
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more
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21. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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22. 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
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- collections
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- horror
- fantasy
23. 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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- 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
24. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
25. The Garden of Seven Twilights
By: Miquel de Palol i Muntanyola
3.99
Format: 885 pages, Paperback
During an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a lu… read more
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- literature
- fiction
26. Small Town Horror
By: Ronald Malfi
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more
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27. They: A Sequence of Unease
By: Kay Dick
3.38
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease
28. Mr. Cables
By: Ronald Malfi
4.00
Format: 99 pages, ebook
For bestselling horror novelist Wilson Paventeau, the scariest novel of his career is one he didn’t… read more
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- short stories
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- horror
29. Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Teffi
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of t… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
- horror
- fantasy
30. 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
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- collections
- anthologies
- 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
31. Compulsory Games
By: Robert Aickman
3.79
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though hi… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- weird fiction
- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
- 20th century
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking."-Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games
