8 must-read short stories books like The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross

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The Other Passenger

By: John Keir Cross

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Fourth Dimension of the mind brought to light in stories of horror, humor and high art.

If you liked the short stories plot in The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The White Album by Joan Didion

1. The White Album

By: Joan Didion

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more

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  • short stories
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"

-Joan Didion, The White Album

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2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more

Similar categories in Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories book and John Keir Cross's The Other Passenger

  • short stories
  • fiction
"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."

-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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3. The Horror in the Museum

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Stephen Jones

4.02

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-author… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of He Arrived at Dusk by Mark Valentine, Ruby Ferguson, R.C. Ashby

4. He Arrived at Dusk

By: Mark Valentine , Ruby Ferguson , R.C. Ashby

4.00

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

"In reading it I had several splendid shudders. . . . It is a piece of living literature, not merel… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ring (Ring, #1) by Kōji Suzuki, Glynne Walley, Robert B. Rohmer

5. Ring (Ring, #1)

By: Kōji Suzuki , Glynne Walley , Robert B. Rohmer

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of March Violets (Bernie Gunther, #1) by Philip Kerr

6. March Violets (Bernie Gunther, #1)

By: Philip Kerr

3.88

Format: None pages,

Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator … read more

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  • fiction
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7. Cabal

By: Clive Barker

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

For more than two decades, Clive Barker has twisted the worlds of horrific and surrealistic fiction… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Dolly

By: Susan Hill

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At I… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

9. Fear

By: L. Ron Hubbard

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

A novel of compelling suspense. Professor James Lowry didn' believe in spirits, or witches, or demo… read more

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10. Finishing Touches

By: Thomas Tessier

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

On an extended holiday in London, Dr. Tom Sutherland befriends a mysterious surgeon named Nordhagen… read more

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11. The Servants of Twilight

By: Dean Koontz , Leigh Nichols

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

To his mother, Joey seems an ordinary six-year-old boy - special to her, but to no one else. To the… read more

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12. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more

Similar categories in Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) book and John Keir Cross's The Other Passenger

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

13. Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories

By: Stephen King , Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, Joh… read more

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14. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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15. The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two

By: James D. Jenkins , Ryan Cagle

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered… read more

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16. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

Cover of Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1) by Laird Barron

17. Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge, #1)

By: Laird Barron

3.95

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross

18. The Other Passenger

By: John Keir Cross

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Fourth Dimension of the mind brought to light in stories of horror, humor and high art. read more

Similar categories in John Keir Cross's The Other Passenger book and John Keir Cross's The Other Passenger

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Nightshade & Damnations by Gerald Kersh

19. Nightshade & Damnations

By: Gerald Kersh

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Contents: 9 · Kersh, the Demon Prince · Harlan Ellison · in 15 · The Queen of Pig Island · ss … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless."

-Gerald Kersh, Nightshade & Damnations

Cover of Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas (Blackham's Wimpey, the Wheatstone Pond, Yaxley's Cat) by Robert Westall

20. Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas (Blackham's Wimpey, the Wheatstone Pond, Yaxley's Cat)

By: Robert Westall

4.18

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The little blue flames and other uncanny tales by A.M. Burrage

21. The little blue flames and other uncanny tales

By: A.M. Burrage

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This title presents 13 mini masterpieces from one of the most undeservedly neglected authors of twe… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror

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Flannery O'Connor

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Horror in the Museum

H.P. Lovecraft , Stephen Jones

4.02

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He Arrived at Dusk

Mark Valentine , Ruby Ferguson , R.C. Ashby

4.00

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Kōji Suzuki , Glynne Walley , Robert B. Rohmer

3.75

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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

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Stanisław Lem

3.99

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Isaac Asimov

4.19

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